Gendzier Dying to Forget

Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-52658-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

A revealing investigation into the corporate and strategic interests that have long been at the root of U.S. policy toward Israel and the Palestinians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gendzier, Irene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Preface to the Paperback Edition: The U.S. Record on Israel and Palestine, 1948
Introduction: Open Secrets
Part I: The Postwar Petroleum Order and the Palestine Question, 1945–1946
1. The Primacy of Oil
2. The Palestine Question: 1945
Part II: The Question of Partition and the Oil Connection, 1947–1948
3. The Critical Year: 1947
4. The Winter of Discontent: 1948
5. The Oil Connection
Part III: Beware "Anomalous Situations," 1948
6. The Transformation of Palestine
7. Truce and Trusteeship
8. Recognition and Response
Part IV: Rethinking U.S. Policy in Palestine/Israel, 1948
9. Reconsidering U.S. Policy in Palestine
10. The Palestine Refugee Problem
11. The State Department on the Record
Part V: The End as the Beginning, 1948–49
12. The PCC, Armistice, Lausanne, and Palestinian Refugees
13. The View from the Pentagon and the National Security Council
14. The Israeli–U.S. Oil Connection and Expanding U.S. Oil Interests
Part VI: In Place of a Conclusion
Reflections on Discovery, Denial, and Deferral
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Irene L. Gendzier is professor emerita in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. She is also the author of Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945–1958 and Frantz Fanon: A Critical Study, and she is a coeditor, with Richard Falk and Robert Lifton, of Crimes of War: Iraq.