Us Foreign Policy in the Middle East: From American Missionaries to the Islamic State (Hardcover)

Introduction?US Foreign Policy in the Middle East

PART I?Historical Cultural and Economic Interests

1. From ‘Heathen Turks’ to ‘Cruel Turks’: Changing American Perception and Foreign Policy towards the Middle East

Ozlem Madi-Sisman and Cengiz Sisman

2. How Big Tobacco Used Islam and Modernity to Conquer Saudi Arabia

Sean Foley

PART II?Cold War Challenges

3. How Geography and Ideology Shaped US Foreign Policy during the Cold War

Nickolas A. Spencer

4. The Ties That Bind: Postwar US Foreign Policy toward Turkey

Gokser Gokcay

5. American Atomic Policy and Hashemite Iraq, 1954-1958

Elizabeth Bishop

PART III?Balancing Regional Alliances

6. Understanding the US-Israeli Alliance

Jeremy Pressman

7. The United States’ Strategic Relationship with Iran and Turkey: Implications for Cold War and Post-Cold War Order

Suleyman Elik

8. American-Qatari Partnership in the Post-Gulf Area: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship Fatma Aslı Kelkitli
9. US-Gulf Cooperation Council Relations in the Age of the Obama Doctrine

Michael McCall

PART IV?Rapid Political Change and the Spread of Regional Instability

10. When Partisanship Captured Strategy: American Foreign Policy and the War in Iraq

Russell A. Burgos

11. The United States and Political Islam: Dealing with the Egyptian Muslim Brothers in the Arab Revolutions

Mohamed-Ali Adraoui

12. Promoting or Resisting Change? The United States and the Egyptian Uprising (2011-2012)

Ahmed Ali Salem

13. Set-up for Failure: The Syria-United States Relationship

Ethan Corbin

14. The United States and Iran: The View of the Hardline Conservatives in the Islamic Republic

Hamad Albloshi

15. Losing Hearts and Minds: The United States, Ideocide, and the Propaganda War Against ISIS

Kelly Gleason

16. An Imperial Design or Necessity of Political Economy?: Understanding the Underpinnings of a Trump Administration