Imagining the Middle East :
Jacobs, Matthew F.
Imagining the Middle East : the Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967 / Matthew F. Jacobs. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. - xiii, 318 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-306) and index.
The task -- falls to the area specialists : national interests, knowledge production, and the emergence of an informal network -- The all-pervading influence of the Muslim faith : the perils and promise of political Islam -- A new amalgam of interests, religion, propaganda, and mobs : interpretations of secular mass politics -- What modernization requires of the Arabs -- is their de-Arabization : imagining a transformed Middle East -- A profound and growing disturbance -- which may last for decades : the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the limits of the network.
9789774165207 9780807834886 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807834882 (cloth : alk. paper)
2011006662
015882019 Uk
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Islam and politics--Middle East
Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.
Middle East--Foreign relations--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
Middle East--Politics and government--20th century
327.7305609041 / JAC
Imagining the Middle East : the Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967 / Matthew F. Jacobs. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. - xiii, 318 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-306) and index.
The task -- falls to the area specialists : national interests, knowledge production, and the emergence of an informal network -- The all-pervading influence of the Muslim faith : the perils and promise of political Islam -- A new amalgam of interests, religion, propaganda, and mobs : interpretations of secular mass politics -- What modernization requires of the Arabs -- is their de-Arabization : imagining a transformed Middle East -- A profound and growing disturbance -- which may last for decades : the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the limits of the network.
9789774165207 9780807834886 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807834882 (cloth : alk. paper)
2011006662
015882019 Uk
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Islam and politics--Middle East
Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.
Middle East--Foreign relations--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
Middle East--Politics and government--20th century
327.7305609041 / JAC