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Imagining the Middle East : the building of an American foreign policy, 1918-1967
- Title
- Imagining the Middle East : the building of an American foreign policy, 1918-1967 / Matthew F. Jacobs.
- Author
- Jacobs, Matthew F.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
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- Description
- xiii, 318 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- As its interests have become deeply tied to the Middle East, the United States has long sought to develop a usable understanding of the people, politics, and cultures of the region. In Imagining the Middle East, Matthew Jacobs illuminates how Americans' ideas and perspectives about the region have shaped, justified, and sustained U.S. cultural, economic, military, and political involvement there. Jacobs examines the ways in which an informal network of academic, business, government, and media specialists interpreted and shared their perceptions of the Middle East from the end of World War I through the late 1960s. During that period, Jacobs argues, members of this network imagined the Middle East as a region defined by certain common characteristics--religion, mass politics, underdevelopment, and an escalating Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict--and as a place that might be transformed through U.S. involvement. Thus, the ways in which specialists and policymakers imagined the Middle East of the past or present came to justify policies designed to create an imagined Middle East of the future. Jacobs demonstrates that an analysis of the intellectual roots of current politics and foreign policy is critical to comprehending the styles of U.S. engagement with the Middle East in a post-9/11 world.--Publisher description.
- Subjects
- United States
- Middle East
- United States > Foreign relations > 20th century
- Außenpolitik
- Naher Osten
- United States > Foreign relations > Middle East
- Middle East > Politics and government > 20th century
- Political science
- Middle East > Foreign relations > 20th century
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- 1900 - 1999
- Middle East > Foreign relations > United States
- International relations
- Islam and politics > Middle East
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-306) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *PWC 11-2259
- ISBN
- 9780807834886 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807834882 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781469619095 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1469619091 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011006662
- 40019764227
- OCLC
- 703623642
- Author
- Jacobs, Matthew F.
- Title
- Imagining the Middle East : the building of an American foreign policy, 1918-1967 / Matthew F. Jacobs.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-306) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40019764227
- Research Call Number
- *PWC 11-2259