American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 194675
American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 194675

Author: Teresa Fava Thomas

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2016-07-06

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 178308510X

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This book examines the careers of 53 area experts in the US State Department’s Middle East bureau during the Cold War. Known as Arabists or Middle East hands, they were very different in background, education, and policy outlook from their predecessors, the Orientalists. A highly competitive selection process and rigorous training shaped them into a small corps of diplomatic professionals with top-notch linguistic and political reporting skills. Case studies shed light on Washington’s perceptions of Israel and the Arab world, as well as how American leaders came to regard (and often disregard) the advice of their own expert advisors. This study focuses on their transformative role in Middle East diplomacy from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.

Seeds of Stability
Seeds of Stability

Author: Ethan B. Kapstein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1107185688

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An original analysis of American interventions in the developing world, asking what can be done to reduce their economic and human cost. Kapstein shows the conditions under which American policies are most likely to produce political stability, and when they are most likely to fail.

American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region
American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region

Author: W. Fain

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-07-07

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0230613365

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This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintegration of British imperial authority in the Gulf that eventually led it to assume its current role in the region.

Kennedy and the Middle East
Kennedy and the Middle East

Author: Antonio Perra

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1786721953

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At the height of the Cold War, the John F. Kennedy administration designed an ambitious plan for the Middle East-its aim was to seek rapprochement with Nasser's Egypt in order to keep the Arab world neutral and contain the perceived communist threat. In order to offset this approach, Kennedy sought to grow relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and embrace Israel's defense priorities-a decision which would begin the US-Israeli 'special relationship'. Here, Antonio Perra shows for the first time how new relations with Saudi Arabia and Israel which would come to shape the Middle East for decades were in fact a by-product of Kennedy's efforts at Soviet containment. The Saudi's in particular were increasingly viewed as 'an atavistic regime who would soon disappear' but Kennedy's support for them-which hardened during the Yemen Crisis even as he sought to placate Nasser-had the unintended effect of making them, as today, the US' great pillar of support in the Middle East.

US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran
US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran

Author: Ben Offiler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1137482214

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US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran examines the evolution of US-Iranian relations during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon. It demonstrates how successive administrations struggled to exert influence over the Shah of Iran's regime domestic and foreign policy.