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| Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| Note on the Text | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From Idealism to Realism: Wilsonian Intent to Cold War Practice | |
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| The Ironic Legacy of the King-Crane Commission | |
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| The "Ambassador for the Arabs": The Locke Mission and the Unmaking of US Development Diplomacy in the Near East, 1952-1953 | |
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| US Foreign Policy Toward Iran During the Mussadiq Era | |
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| The Mussadiq Era in Iran, 1951-1953: A Contemporary Diplomat's View | |
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| National Security Concerns in US Policy Toward Egypt, 1949-1956 | |
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| The Perils of Ambiguity: The United States and the Baghdad Pact | |
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| The 1957 American-Syrian Crisis: Globalist Policy in a Regional Reality | |
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| US Policy and Military Intervention in the 1958 Lebanon Crisis | |
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| The United States and Nasserist Pan-Arabism | |
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| Arab-Israeli War and Peace | |
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| The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: US Acrions and Arab Perceptions | |
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| Flawed Strategies and Missed Signals: Crisis Bargaining Between the Superpowers, October 1973 | |
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| The United States and Israel: The Nature of a Special Relationship | |
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| The US-PLO Relationship: From Dialogue to the White House Lawn | |
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| From Madrid and Oslo to Camp David: The United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1991-2001 | |
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| The Bush Administration and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The First Term and Beyond | |
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| Gulf Wars | |
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| The United States in the Persian Gulf: From Twin Pillars to Dual Containment | |
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| Closing the Distance: Kuwait and the United States in the Persian Gulf | |
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| US Input into Iraqi Decisionmaking, 1988-1990 | |
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| From "Over the Horizon" to "Into the Backyard": The US-Saudi Relationship in the Gulf | |
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| The Iraq War of 2003: Why Did the United States Decide to Invade? | |
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| What Went Wrong in Iraq? | |
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| Retrospective and Reassessment | |
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| The Soviet Perception of the US Threat | |
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| The Push and Pull of Strategic Cooperation: The US Relationship with Turkey in the Middle East | |
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| The United States and Afghanistan: From Marginality to Global Concern | |
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| Is It Time for the United States to Give Up on Arab Liberals? | |
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| New US Policies for a New Middle East? | |
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| Islamist Perceptions of US Policy in the Middle East | |
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| Postscript: Americans and the Muslim World-First Encounters | |
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| About the Editor and Contributors | |
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| Index | |