The Middle East and the United States: a historical and political reassessment

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Note on the text

Introduction / David W. Lesch

pt. 1. From idealism to realism : Wilsonian intent to Cold War practice

1. The ironic legacy of the King-Crane Commission / James Gelvin

2. The "Ambassador for the Arabs" : the Locke Mission and the unmaking of U.S. development diplomacy in the Near East, 1952-1953 / Paul W.T. Kingston

3. U.S. foreign policy toward Iran during the Mussadiq era / Mark Gasiorowski

4. The Mussadiq era in Iran, 1951-1953 : a contemporary diplomat's view / Sir Sam Falle

5. National security concerns in U.S. policy toward Egypt, 1949-1956 / Peter Hahn

6. The perils of ambiguity : the United States and the Baghdad Pact / Elie Podeh

7. The 1957 American-Syrian Crisis : globalist policy in a regional reality / David W. Lesch

8. U.S. policy and military intervention in the 1958 Lebanon Crisis / Erika Alin

9. The United States and Nasserist Pan-Arabism / Malik Mufti.

pt. 2. Arab-Israeli war and peace

10. The 1967 Arab-Israeli War : U.S. actions and Arab perceptions / Fawaz A. Gerges

11. Flawed strategies and missed signals : crisis bargaining between the superpowers, October 1973 / Janice Gross Stein

12. The United States and Israel : the nature of a special relationship / Bernard Reich

13. The U.S.-PLO relationship : from dialogue to the White House lawn / JoAnn A. DiGeorgio-Lutz

14. From Madrid and Oslo to Camp David : The United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1991-2001 / Jeremy Pressman

15. The Bush Administration and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: the first term and beyond / Robert O. Freedman.

pt. 3. Gulf wars

16. The United States in the Persian Gulf: from twin pillars to dual containment / Gary Sick

17. Closing the distance: Kuwait and the United States in the Persian Gulf / Shafeeq N. Ghabra

18. U.S. input into Iraqi decisionmaking, 1988-1990 / Amatzia Baram

19. From "over the horizon" to "into the backyard" : the U.S.-Saudi relationship in the Gulf / F. Gregory Gause III

20. The Iraq War of 2003 : why did the United States decide to invade? / Steve A. Yetiv

21. What went wrong in Iraq? / Ali R. Abootalebi

pt. 4. Retrospective and reassessment

22. The Soviet perception of the U.S. threat / Georgiy Mirsky

23. The push and pull of strategic cooperation : the U.S. relationship with Turkey in the Middle East / Henri J. Barkey

24. The United States and Afghanistan : from marginality to global concern / Marvin G. Weinbaum

25. Is it time for the United States to give up on Arab liberals / Jon B. Alterman

26. New US policies for a new Middle East / William B. Quandt

27. Islamist perceptions of US policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

Postscript : Americans and the Muslim world

first encounters /

Robert J. Allison

About the editor and contributors

Index.