The Middle East and the United States: a historical and political reassessment

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Introduction (David W. Lesch. ) From Idealism To Realism: Wilsonian Intent To Cold War Practice The Ironic Legacy of the King-Crane Commission (James Gelvin. ) The Ambassador for the Arabs: The Locke Mission and the Unmaking of U.S. Development Diplomacy in the Near East, 19521953 (Paul W.T. Kingston. ) U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Iran During the Mussadiq Era (Mark Gasiorowski. ) Iranian Perceptions of the United States and the Mussadiq Period (Sussan Siavoshi. ) The Mussadiq Era in Iran, 19511953: A Contemporary Diplomats View (Sir Sam Falle. ) The Cold War In The Middle East National Security Concerns in U.S. Policy Toward Egypt, 19491956 (Peter Hahn. ) The United States and King Hussein (Richard B. Parker. ) The Jekyll-and-Hyde Origins of the U.S.-Jordanian Strategic Relationship (Robert B. Satloff. ) The 1957 American-Syrian Crisis: Globalist Policy in a Regional Reality (D. W. Lesch. ) U.S. Policy and Military Intervention in the 1958 Lebanon Crisis (Erika Alin. ) The United States and Nasserist Pan-Arabism (Malik Mufti. ) War And Peace, War And Peace The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: U.S. Actions and Arab Perceptions (Fawaz A. Gerges. ) Flawed Strategies and Missed Signals: Crisis Bargaining Between the Superpowers, October 1973 (Janice Gross Stein. ) The United States and Israel: The Nature of a Special Relationship (Bernard Reich. ) The U.S.-PLO Relationship: From Dialogue to the White House Lawn (JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz. ) The Specifics of the Meaning of Peace in the Middle East (Mohamed Sid-Ahmed. ) The United States in the Persian Gulf: From Twin Pillars to Dual Containment (Gary Sick. ) The Gulf Crisis And War Kuwait and the United States: The Reluctant Ally and U.S. Policy Toward the Gulf (Shafeeq Ghabra. ) From Over the Horizon to Into the Backyard: The U.S.-Saudi Relationship and the Gulf War (F. Gregory Gause III. ) The Invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War: Dilemmas Facing the Israeli-Iraqi-U.S. Relationship (Yair Evron. ) Retrospective And Reassessment The Soviet Union, the Gulf War, and Its Aftermath: A Case Study in Limited Superpower Cooperation (Robert O. Freedman. ) The Soviet Perception of the U.S. Threat (Georgiy Mirsky. ) T