Download An American Vision For The Middle East full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online An American Vision For The Middle East ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Richard Welch Murphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.5I/5 ( download)
Download or read book An American Vision of Peace in the Middle East written by Richard Welch Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dafna H. Rand
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815737629
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Re-Engaging the Middle East written by Dafna H. Rand and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time for new policies based on changing U.S. interests U.S. policy in the Middle East has had very few successes in recent years, so maybe it's time for a different approach. But is the new approach of the Trump administration—military disengagement coupled with unquestioning support for key allies--Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia—the way forward? In this edited volume, noted experts on the region lay out a better long-term strategy for protecting U.S. interests in the Middle East. The authors articulate a vision that is both self-interested and carefully tailored to the unique dynamics of the increasingly divergent sub-regions in the Middle East, including North Africa, the Sunni Arab bloc of Egypt and Persian Gulf states, and the increasingly chaotic Levant. The book argues that the most effective way to pursue and protect U.S. interests is unlikely to involve the same alliance-centric approach that has been the basis of Washington's policy since the 1990s. Instead, the United States should adopt a nimbler and less military-dominant strategy that relies on a diversified set of partners and a determination to establish priorities for American interests and the use of resources, both financial and military. In essence, the book calls for a new post-Obama and post-Trump approach to the region that reflects the fact that U.S. interests are changing and likely will continue to change. The book offers a fresh perspective in advance of the 2020 presidential election.
Author : Bruce D. Abramson Jd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781719824989
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book An American Vision for the Middle East written by Bruce D. Abramson Jd and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle East has long been home to numerous ethnic and religious groups. The stories internal to those groups define the region's dynamics. The dominant group, the Sunni Arabs, has spent the past century torn between an ideological quest for a unified empire and a ruling class that benefits greatly from the existing international order. The key Shiite story is the Khomeinist revolution, which set out to galvanize a religious minority that had traditionally separated clerical from temporal authority into an eschatological theocratic movement. Nearly all of the region's other minorities-Jews, Christians, Kurds, Druze, Alawites, Yazidis, and others-have tiptoed through this minefield seeking either integration or self-determination. Sunni Imperialism, Shiite revolution, minority self-determination, and the interplay among them, provide a coherent narrative explaining the region's history since the fall of the Ottoman Empire a century ago. Where most approaches to the Middle East see a collection of unrelated irreconcilable conflicts and a steady stream of crises, this new narrative ties together many of the region's seminal events, including: - The Arab/Israeli conflict, the "Palestinians," the PLO, and the PA; - The surprising durability of both Saudi Arabia and Israel as American allies; - The Iran/Iraq war, Desert Storm, and post-Saddam Iraq; - Sunni Islamism, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, al Qaeda & ISIS; - The "Arab Spring" and its aftermath; - The Iranian revolution, the Syrian/Iranian allegiance, Hezbollah, and the region's Shiites; - The Yemeni civil war of 1960s and the Lebanese civil war of 1970s & 80s; - Nasser, the United Arab Republic, the Arab League, and pan-Arabism; - OPEC and the strategic split between "Price Hawk" and "Demand Hawk" oil producers. This coherence also provides a guide to American policy. The U.S. should be anti-imperial and anti-revolutionary. The U.S. should promote ethnic self-determination, beginning with safe-havens for each of the various ethnic groups facing dislocation. The U.S. should extoll Israel as the only successful example of ethnic self-determination in the region, help Israel preserve its status as a secure Jewish state, and enlist Israeli support and guidance in ushering the region's other minorities towards statehood. The refugees flowing across the region are harbingers of massive dislocations and population exchanges that will reshape the map. The reconfiguration of the Middle East will emerge as a dominant story of the twenty-first century. The U.S. will not avoid the turmoil; its choices are to nudge it in directions consistent with American interests and values or to react haphazardly to individual crises.
Author : David Rundell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838605940
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vision or Mirage written by David Rundell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor 'A rich, superbly researched, balanced history of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.' General David Petraeus, former Commander U.S. Central Command and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency 'Destined to be the best single volume on the Kingdom.' Ambassador Chas Freeman, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Assistant Secretary of Defense 'Should be prescribed reading for a new generation of political leaders.' Sir Richard Dearlove, former Chief of H.M. Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Something extraordinary is happening in Saudi Arabia. A traditional, tribal society once known for its lack of tolerance is rapidly implementing significant economic and social reforms. An army of foreign consultants is rewriting the social contract, King Salman has cracked down hard on corruption, and his dynamic though inexperienced son, the Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, is promoting a more tolerant Islam. But is all this a new vision for Saudi Arabia or merely a mirage likely to dissolve into Iranian-style revolution? David Rundell - one of America's foremost experts on Saudi Arabia - explains how the country has been stable for so long, why it is less so today, and what is most likely to happen in the future. The book is based on the author's close contacts and intimate knowledge of the country where he spent 15 years living and working as a diplomat. Vision or Mirage demystifies one of the most powerful, but least understood, states in the Middle East and is essential reading for anyone interested in the power dynamics and politics of the Arab World.
Author : Zachary Lockman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521115876
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contending Visions of the Middle East written by Zachary Lockman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition considers how the 'global war on terror' has changed the way the West views the Islamic world.
Author : Howard Teicher
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book Twin Pillars to Desert Storm written by Howard Teicher and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1993 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an insider's account of America's policy in the Middle East over the past 20 years, a former member of the National Security Council shows why America's reliance on regional powers to protect U.S. interests in the Middle East from 1972 through 1991 led directly to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm.C.
Author : Brian VanDeMark
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616144777
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Sheikhs written by Brian VanDeMark and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Sheikhs is the story of a great institution—the American University of Beirut (AUB)—and the families who created and fostered it for almost 150 years. Author Brian VanDeMark’s vivid narrative includes not only the colorful history of AUB and many memorable episodes in a family saga, but also larger and more important themes. In the story of the efforts of these two families to build a great school with alternating audacity, arrogance, generosity, paternalism, and vision, the author clearly sees an allegory for the larger history of the United States in the Middle East. Before 1945, AUB’s history is largely positive. Despite American nationalism and presumptions of Manifest Destiny, Middle Easterners generally viewed the school as an engine of constructive change and the United States as a benign force in the region. But in the post-World War II era, with the rise of America as a world power, AUB found itself buffeted by the strong winds of nationalist frustration, Zionism and anti-Zionism, and—eventually—Islamic extremism. Middle Easterners became more ambivalent about America’s purposes and began to see the university not just as a cradle of learning but also as an agent of undesirable Western interests. This story is full of meaning today. By revealing how and why the Blisses and Dodges both succeeded and failed in their attempts to influence the Middle East, VanDeMark shows how America’s outreach to the Middle East can be improved and the vital importance of maintaining good relations between Americans and the Arab world in the new century.
Author : Andrew J. Bacevich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0553393936
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book America's War for the Greater Middle East written by Andrew J. Bacevich and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical assessment of America's foreign policy in the Middle East throughout the past four decades evaluates and connects regional engagements since 1990 while revealing their massive costs.
Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9781860463723
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Visions written by Robert Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.
Author : American Assembly
Publisher : The American Assembly
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The United States and the Middle East written by American Assembly and published by The American Assembly. This book was released on 1964 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As background reading for the twenty-fourth American Assembly.
