Imagining the Middle East the building of an American foreign policy, 1918-1967
As its interests have become deeply tied to the Middle East, the United States has long sought to develop a usable understanding of the people, politics, and cultures of the region. In Imagining the Middle East, Matthew Jacobs illuminates how Americans' ideas and perspectives about the region h...
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- The task
- falls to the area specialists : national interests, knowledge production, and the emergence of an informal network
- The all-pervading influence of the Muslim faith : the perils and promise of political Islam
- A new amalgam of interests, religion, propaganda, and mobs : interpretations of secular mass politics
- What modernization requires of the Arabs
- is their de-Arabization : imagining a transformed Middle East
- A profound and growing disturbance
- which may last for decades : the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the limits of the network