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Imagining the Middle East : the building of an American foreign policy, 1918-1967 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobs, Matthew F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Middle East > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Middle East.
Middle East > Foreign relations > 20th century.
United States > Foreign relations > 20th century.
Middle East > Politics and government > 20th century.
Islam and politics > Middle East.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Table of Contents:
  • The task
  • falls to the area specialists : national interests, knowledge production, and the emergence of an informal network
  • The all-pervading influence of the Muslim faith : the perils and promise of political Islam
  • A new amalgam of interests, religion, propaganda, and mobs : interpretations of secular mass politics
  • What modernization requires of the Arabs
  • is their de-Arabization : imagining a transformed Middle East
  • A profound and growing disturbance
  • which may last for decades : the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the limits of the network.