The United States and the Middle East: A Search for New Perspectivesby Hooshang Amirahmadi

✍ Scribed by Review by: William B. Quandt

• Book ID: 125235960
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 175 KB
• Volume: 72
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20045593

✦ Synopsis

A collection of essays designed to highlight the foibles, misguidedness, and sometimes conspiratorial aspects of American policy in the Middle East. Most of the authors take a decidedly revisionist view of the past. Some, such as Richard Cottam and Mansour Farhang, are genuinely provocative in the best sense. Others are more predictable, sometimes naive. Despite all the criticism of policies past, littie is suggested for the future apart from such bromides as