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  title info:
    title: Beyond America's grasp
    sub title: a century of failed diplomacy in the Middle East
  name:
    name part: Cohen, Stephen P.
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2009
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 284 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Middle East expert Stephen P. Cohen traces U.S. policy in the region back to the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, when the Great Powers failed to take crucial steps. He sees in that early failure a pattern shaping the conflicts since then--and America's role in them. A century ago, there emerged two dominant views on the uses of America's newfound power. Woodrow Wilson urged America to promote national freedom and self-determination--in contrast to his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt, who had advocated a vigorous foreign policy based on national self-interest. Cohen argues that this running conflict has hobbled American dealings in the Middle East ever since, showing how different countries have struggled to define themselves in the face of America's stated idealism and its actual realpolitik. This conflict came to a head in the clumsy Middle East policy of George W. Bush--but Cohen suggests ways in a greater awareness of our history might enable our present leaders to act more sensibly.--From publisher description.
  note: Stephen P. Cohen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: aw-----
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Middle East
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: DS63.2.U5 C57 2009
  classification: 327.7305609/04
  identifier: 9780374281243 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0374281246 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009011519
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090317
    record change date: 20151113121358.0
    record identifier: in00002537261