The Middle East and the United States: history, politics, and ideologies

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Introduction : how American Middle East policy is made / William B. Quandt -- The US enters the Middle East -- Americans and the Muslim world : first encounters / Robert J. Allison -- The ironic legacy of the King-Crane Commission / James Gelvin -- US foreign policy toward Iran during the Mussadiq era / Mark Gasiorowski -- National security concerns in US policy toward Egypt, 1949-1956 / Peter Hahn -- Cold War rivalries -- The 1957 American-Syrian crisis : globalist policy in a regional reality / David W. Lesch -- The United States and Nasserist pan-Arabism / Malik Mufti -- The Soviet perception of the US threat / Georgiy Mirsky -- The superpowers and the Cold War in the Middle East / Rashid Khalidi -- Arab-Israeli war and peace -- The 1967 Arab-Israeli war : US actions and Arab perceptions / Fawaz A. Gerges -- The Golan negotiations : US-Syrian relations and the failure to achieve a comprehensive peace / Andrew Bowen -- From Madrid and Oslo to Camp David : the United States and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1991-2001 / Jeremy Pressman -- George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Robert Freedman -- Part four. The Persian Gulf in US policy -- The United States in the Persian Gulf : from twin pillars to dual containment / Gary Sick -- The Iraq War of 2003 : why did the United states decide to invade? / Steve A. Yetiv -- What went wrong in Iraq? / Ali R. Abootalebi -- The United States and Saudi Arabia / Thomas Lippman -- US-Middle Eastern relations after 9/11 -- Islamist perceptions of US policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Yasbeck-Haddad -- Ideology and America's nuclear crisis with Iran / Mark L. Haas -- The U.S.'s post-9/11 fight against Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State : a losing effort -- In search of a change / Daveed Gartenstein-Ross -- The push and pull of strategic cooperation : the US relationship with Turkey in the Middle East / Henri J. Barkey -- The Arab uprisings from the US perspective / Mark L. Haas -- Epilogue: the early years of the Trump administration's Middle East policy / David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas.