Shifting Sands

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-16672-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 719 g

Joel S. Migdal revisits the approach U.S. officials have adopted toward the Middle East since World War II, which paid scant attention to tectonic shifts in the region. After the war, the United States did not restrict its strategic model to the Middle East. Beginning with Harry S. Truman, American presidents applied a uniform strategy rooted in the country's Cold War experience in Europe to regions across the globe, designed to project America into nearly every corner of the world while limiting costs and overreach.

The approach was simple: find a local power that could play Great Britain's role in Europe after the war, sharing the burden of exercising power, and establish a security alliance along the lines of NATO. Yet regional changes following the creation of Israel, the Free Officers Coup in Egypt, the rise of Arab nationalism from 1948 to 1952, and, later, the Iranian Revolution and the Egypt-Israel peace treaty in 1979 complicated this project. Migdal shows how insufficient attention to these key transformations led to a series of missteps and misconceptions in the twentieth century. With the Arab uprisings of 2009 through 2011 prompting another major shift, Migdal sees an opportunity for the United States to deploy a new, more workable strategy, and he concludes with a plan for gaining a stable foothold in the region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Migdal, Joel S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefacePart I. Introduction1. The Middle East in the Eye of the Global Storm2. America's Place in the Middle EastPart II. The Cold War and Its Aftermath3. Failed Partnerships and Fragile Partners4. Finding a Place in the Middle East: A New Partnership Develops out of Black September5. The Strategic Partnership Faces Strains: The Yom Kippur War and the Changing Calculus of U.S. Foreign Policy6. The Strategic Relationship Unravels: The End of the Cold War and the Gulf War of 1990;1991Part III. A Transformed Region: The Rise and Fall of the Arab Middle East7. A Changing Lineup of Regional Powerhouses8. New Boys on the Block: Nonstate Actors9. A Changing Islam and the Rise of the Islamic Republic of IranPart IV. The United States and the New Middle East in the Twenty-First Century10. The Bush Administration and the Arc of Instability11. Obama: Engaging the Middle East on Multiple FrontsPart V. Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Forward12. Ups and Downs of an Everyday Player13. Toward a New Strategic Partnership?AfterwordNotesWorks CitedIndex

Leseproben

Read the introduction, "The Middle East in the Eye of the Global Storm":

Über Autor(innen)

Joel S. Migdal is the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, and has been writing about the Middle East and state-society relations worldwide for more than forty years. Among his books are The Palestinian People (with Baruch Kimmerling), Through the Lens of Israel, Strong Societies and Weak States, and State-in-Society.