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  • Crude Strategy

    Rethinking the US Military Commitment to Defend Persian Gulf Oil

    Should the United States ask its military to guarantee the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf? If the US security commitment is in fact strategically sound, what posture should the military adopt to protect Persian Gulf oil?Charles L. Glaser and Rosemary A. Kelanic present a collection of new essays from a multidisciplinary team of political scientists, historians, and economists that provide ... Leer más

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  • The United States and the Middle East since 1914

    Troubled Realms

    What events and circumstances have driven America's fixation with the Middle East? In this book, Professor Salim Yaqub covers over 100 years of US involvement in and policy towards the Middle East to explain this vital geopolitical relationship.Starting with the upheavals of World War I and the first stirrings of US geopolitical interest in the region, the book describes how and why the Middle ... Leer más

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  • Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord

    The United States since 1945

    de Salim Yaqub ...
    In brisk and engaging prose, this comprehensive introductory textbook traverses the broad sweep of US history since 1945. Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord explores how Americans from all walks of life – political leaders, businesspeople, public intellectuals, workers, students, activists, migrants, and others – struggled to define the nation's political, economic, geopolitical, demographic, and ... Leer más

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  • Containing Arab Nationalism

    The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East

    de Salim Yaqub ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, the United States pledged to give increased economic and military aid to receptive Middle Eastern countries and to protect — with U.S. armed forces if necessary — the territorial integrity and political independence of these nations from the threat of “international Communism.” Salim Yaqub demonstrates that although the United States officially aimed to protect the ... Leer más

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  • Imperfect Strangers

    Americans, Arabs, and U.S.–Middle East Relations in the 1970s

    de Salim Yaqub ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    In Imperfect Strangers**, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination.** In those years, Americans and Arabs came to know each other as never before. With Western Europe's imperial legacy fading in the Middle East, American commerce and investment spread ... Leer más

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  • Magnificent Delusions

    Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding

    The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan -- to American eyes -- has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror. America -- to Pakistani eyes -- has been a guarantee of security, a coldly distant scold, an enthusiastic military enabler, and is now a threat ... Leer más

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  • Thicker Than Oil : America's Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia

    For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship. In Thicker than Oil, Rachel Bronson reveals why the partnership became so intimate and how the countries' shared interests sowed the seeds of today's most pressing problem--Islamic radicalism. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, declassified ... Leer más

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  • A Woman Among Warlords

    The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice

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    Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan's new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug ... Leer más

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  • Subverting Syria: How CIA Contra Gangs and NGOs Manufacture, Mislabel and Market Mass Murder

    An E-book to beat the bombing - Expose the Big Lie in time to stop the war. Syria's situation is truly serious, under ruthless attack by enemies within and without. The so-called Syrian uprising is actually a cynical US-engineered plot using mercenaries, wahhabi fanatics and corrupt NGO's. They are determined to smash this independent Arab socialist state where oil wealth is spent on human welfare ... Leer más

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    America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia

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  • Saddam Hussein

    A Political Biography

    "Probably the best biography of Saddam Hussein…[it] presents a coherent view of a man who has generated a good deal of mythology" (Roger Hardy, BBC World Service).Authors Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, experts on Middle East history and politics, have combined their expertise to write what is largely considered the definitive work on Iraq's fifth president. Drawing on a wealth of Iraqi, Arab, ... Leer más

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  • The Six Day War

    The Breaking of the Middle East

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    The author of Origins of the Suez Crisis "mak[es] us look afresh at the events that led to conflict between Israel and its neighbors" ( Financial Times).One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. Now, historian Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted ... Leer más

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