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"In his introduction, the editor evaluates the challenges facing U.S. foreign policy makers in recent years and assesses the Obama Administration's successes and failures in its efforts to pursue a new direction in American foreign policy. The volume is then divided into three major parts with an opening essay by the editor to place each part in context and then a selection of essays that analyzes the topic in that part in more detail. Part I, "The Societal Environment," contains a series of articles on the position of interest groups, the impact of military experience, the effect of public opinion, and the role of elections and political parties on foreign policy. Part II, "The Institutional Setting," examines how various political institutions, such as Congress, the presidency, and various bureaucracies (e.g., the National Security Council, the intelligence community) shape American foreign policy. Part III, "Decision makers and Their Policymaking Positions," provides various case analyses over several administrations to illustrate how individuals and bureaucracies affect the foreign policy decision making at the highest levels of government." -- Publisher's website

1. The Arab world: a balance sheet of the present situation. The autocratic state faced with the challenge of modernity ; Political Islam ; Political conflicts and social struggles ; The 'third sector' of the social reality ; Community associations: a genuine burgeoning or a smokescreen? ; Geo-strategy, Arab unity and Palestinian intifadas -- 2. The Mediterranean-Gulf region: some international policy problems. The strategic hegemony of the United States ; Europe and the Arab Mediterranean to the south ; After the Soviet collapse and the Gulf and Yugoslav wars -- 3. Euro-Mediterranean relationships: globalization and regionalization. Globalization and regionalization ; The Euro-Mediterranean partnership: fiction and fact ; The Euro-Mediterranean project: beyond the discourse ; The real issues at stake in the Euro-Mediterranean project ; The Barcelona compromise -- 4. On the Euro-Mediterranean partnership. The Arab world fossilized in its powerlessness ; The 'Euro-Mediterranean' partnership -- Basic data on the Arab world.