Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East

✍ Scribed by Leon Hadar

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The time has come for a serious debate on the future involvement of the United States in the Middle East and this original and provocative analysis challenges the prevailing wisdom of the Washington foreign policy establishment. Hadar provides a sweeping reexamination of the conceptual bases of American policy and proposes a strategy of "constructive disengagement" from the region, a policy of benign neglect as a way of promoting the interests of the United States as well as those of the people of the Middle East. Hadar calls for regional states and the European Union to take increased responsibility for security, economic growth, and political stability. This bold and innovative critique will inject new energy into the policy debate.

✦ Table of Contents

1403967245......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1 Old Paradigms Don’t Just Fade Away: Why Are We (Still) in the Middle East?......Page 16
2 Tilting the Middle East Kaleidoscope: The Rising Costs of American Intervention from the Cold War to the Iraq War......Page 40
3 Breaking Up is Hard to Do: America’s Fixation with the Middle East’s “Rival Twins”......Page 72
4 It’s Interests—Not Cultures, Stupid!: The Euro-American Rift over the Middle East......Page 106
5 Exacting the “Suez Revenge”: Can Europe Challenge U.S. Hegemony in the Middle East?......Page 144
6 Replacing the Middle East Paradigm: A Pax Americana—or a Northern Alliance?......Page 168
Notes......Page 196
B......Page 212
E......Page 213
I......Page 214
M......Page 215
Q......Page 216
U......Page 217
Z......Page 218