TY - BOOK AU - Jacobs,Matthew F. TI - Imagining the Middle East: the Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967 SN - 9789774165207 U1 - 327.7305609041 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - Islam and politics KW - Middle East KW - Foreign relations KW - United States KW - 20th century KW - Politics and government N1 - 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 ER -