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Challenges for America in the Middle East / Richard W. Mansbach, (Iowa State Uinversity) Kirsten L. Taylor (Berry College)

Title: Challenges for America in the Middle East / Richard W. Mansbach, (Iowa State Uinversity) Kirsten L. Taylor (Berry College)
Publication: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE /CQ Press, [2017]

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xiii, 349 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Challenges for America in the Middle East offers a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the foreign policy challenges the United States faces in the Middle East. It takes a close look at the critical policy dilemmas posed by radical Islam, the Arab Spring, the Shia Crescent, and IsraelƯ-Palestine relations. Authors Richard W. Mansbach and Kirsten L. Taylor examine the issues from a historical perspective and in the context of the current state of affairs, and analyze options for future action. Throughout the text, they emphasize the interplay of foreign and domestic issues in the United States and overseas, and show how that interplay shapes American policy towards the region."--Publisher's description

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Sources of American Foreign Policy -- The Linkage of Domestic and Foreign Policies -- Sources of U.S. Foreign Policy -- External Factors -- Governmental Factors -- Societal Factors -- Role Factors -- Individual Factors -- Conclusion: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East -- 2. Competing Currents in U.S. Foreign Policy -- Competing Currents -- Interests and Values -- Isolationism and Internationalism -- Unilateralism and Multilateralism -- Interventionism and Noninterventionism -- The Past: Competing Currents in Historical Perspective -- Isolationism or Unilateralism? The Foreign Policy of a Young Nation -- Interventionism: America Expands, 1823-1914 -- A Global Leader Emerges, 1914-1945 -- Instrumental Multilateralism: Containing Strategic Challenges -- The Present: The Impact of 9/11 -- The Unilateralist Turn -- A Return to Multilateralism -- Hybrid Multilateralism -- Conclusion: Engagement or Disengagement? -- 3. America and the Arab Middle East before the Arab Spring -- Sources of American Policy toward the Arab Middle East -- The Arabs: World War I and After -- The Middle East and Oil -- The Cold War and the Arab World -- Political Islam -- The Aims of Political Islam -- Political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood -- Conclusion: Political Islam and Democracy -- 4. America and the Evolution of the Arab Spring -- The Arrival of Spring -- Tunisia: Cradle of the Arab Spring -- Libya and Western Intervention -- Egypt: Revolution and Counterrevolution -- Syria: Civil War -- Conclusion: The Middle East in an Era of Declining American Power -- 5. American Options in a Changing Arab World -- Egypt -- Policy Options -- Syria -- Policy Options -- Conclusion: Spring or Winter? -- 6. Radical Islam: Origins and Evolution -- Sources of American Policy toward Radical Islam -- Early Islam -- Sources and Meaning of Radical Islam -- The Origins and Early Evolution of al-Qaeda ("the Base") -- Conclusion: American Foreign Policy and the "Green Menace" -- 7. America and the War on Terror -- The War on Terror Begins -- Al-Qaeda and Islamic Extremism after 9/11 -- Regional Terrorist Groups -- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- Al-Shabab -- Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) -- Boko Haram -- Asian Terrorist Groups -- "Lone Wolves" -- Iraq and Syria -- AI-Qaeda in Iraq -- The Islamic State -- The "War on Terror" -- The Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence -- The Patriot Act and Growing Surveillance -- Human Rights and the War on Terror -- Illegal Combatants -- Extraordinary Rendition and "Black Sites" -- Targeted Killings -- Torture -- Guantanamo Bay: "Un-American by Any Name" -- Conclusion: An Evolving Threat -- 8. An End to the War on Terror? -- Al-Qaeda and Its Regional Affiliates -- Policy Options -- Islamic State -- Policy Options -- "Lone Wolves" -- Policy Options -- Surveillance -- Policy Options -- Human Rights: Drone Strikes -- Policy Options -- The War on Terror -- Policy Options -- Conclusion: Terrorism Persists -- 9. America and the Evolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conundrum, 1948-1967 -- The Birth of Israel -- Sources of U.S. Policy toward Israel and the Palestinians -- The Yom Kippur or October War -- The Six-Day War and Its Consequences -- Conclusion: Consequences of the Six-Day War -- 10. America, Israel, and Palestine: The Elusive Road to Peace -- American Policy and the Israeli[—]Palestinian Peace Process -- The Peace Process Begins -- From Madrid to Oslo -- The Oslo Accords and Camp David Summits -- The Second Intifada -- The Failed "Roadmap" to Peace -- Hamas ("Islamic Resistance Movement") -- Hezbollah ("Party of God") -- The Kerry Round of Negotiations -- Conclusion: What Next? -- 11. Is Israeli-Palestinian Peace Possible? -- Two States or One? -- Policy Options -- Israeli Settlements -- Policy Options -- Refugees -- Policy Options -- Hamas and Gaza -- Policy Options -- Economic and Resource Issues -- Policy Options -- Conclusion: Will It Ever End? -- 12. Early American Relations with Iran and Iraq -- Sources of American Policy toward Iran and Iraq -- Iran, America, and Britain until the Iranian Revolution -- Iran before the Shah's Overthrow -- The Iranian Coup -- Iran to the Revolution -- The Birth and Evolution of Iraq -- Iraq's Political Evolution from a Monarchy to Saddam Hussein -- Iraq's Shifting Foreign Policy -- Iran[—]Iraq War -- Conclusion: Changing Eras of Friendship and Hostility -- 13. America and the Shia Crescent: Iraq and Iran -- Iraq -- The Persian Gulf War -- The 2003-2011 Iraq War and Thereafter -- Iraq and al-Qaeda: Any Connection? -- Iran -- Iran and Syria -- Shia versus Sunni: Yemen -- Shia versus Sunni: Bahrain -- Iran's Sunni Foes -- The United States and Iranian Nuclear Aspirations -- Israel and Iran's "Existential Threat" -- Conclusion: Navigating the Shia[—]Sunni Divide -- 14. American Options in Iran and Iraq -- Combating Insurgency in Iraq -- Policy Options -- Growing Iranian Influence in Syria, Iraq, and Elsewhere in the Middle East -- Policy Options -- America and Its Sunni Friends -- Policy Options -- U.S. Security Commitments to Oil-Rich Sunni Friends -- Policy Options -- Iran's Nuclear Ambitions -- Policy Options -- Israel and Iran's "Existential Threat" -- Policy Options -- Conclusion: Policy Dilemmas -- 15. Conclusion: America and the Complex Middle East -- The Evolution of American Foreign Policy before the Cold War -- After the Cold War -- Contemporary Middle East Challenges -- What Next?.

ISBN

9781506308227 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1506308228 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2015042982

OCLC

953763787
SCSB-11358053

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Harvard Library