Western foreign policy and the Middle East

Abstract

1. Introduction: Rethinking Western Foreign Policy and the Middle East / Christian Kaunert, Sarah Leonard, Lars Berger and Gaynor Johnson. - 2. In the eye of the storm: Ambassador James Richards' mission to Iraq in April 1957 / Brandon King. - 3. 'A good investment?' State sponsorship of terrorism as an instrument of Iraqi foreign policy (1979-1991) / Magdalena Kirchner. - 4. Changing Turkish foreign policy towards Iraq: new tools of engagement / Meltem Muftuler-Bac. - 5. 'I'm glad I'm not a Saudi woman': the First Gulf War and US encounters with Saudi gender relations / Kelly J Shannon. - 6. The EU and the Gulf monarchies: normative power Europe in search of a strategy for engagement / Thomas Demmelhuber and Christian Kaunert. - 7. Somalia versus Captain 'Hook': assessing the EU's security actorness in countering piracy off the Horn of Africa / Christian Kaunert and Kamil Zwolski