Losing the long game : the false promise of regime change in the Middle East /
Since the end of World War II, the United States has set out to oust governments in the Middle East on an average of once per decade, in places as diverse as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan (twice), Egypt, Libya and Syria. The reasons for these interventions have also been extremely diverse, and the methods...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the regime change temptation
- Original sin : Iran, 1953
- "We won" : Afghanistan, 1979-92
- "We have turned a corner" : Afghanistan, 2001
- "Mission accomplished" : Iraq, 2003
- "The transition must begin now": Egypt, 2011
- "We came, we saw, he died" : Libya, 2011
- "Assad must go" : Syria, 2011
- Conclusion : why regime change in the Middle East always goes wrong.