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"Foreign Policy and Religion: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Israel" published on by Oxford University Press.

The emergence of the "Islam industry," an ideology-based strategy of manipulating American public opinion into supporting a culture war against fundamentalist Islam & embracing moderate, pro-democracy Islamic movements, in the contemporary US is examined. A review of various works published after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks indicated the emergence of an ideological movement within the US that delineated Islam as anti-modernist, anti-secular, & dangerously fundamentalist. It is stressed that few works identified the circumstances that prompted Islamic guardedness toward American society & eventually militant Islam; therefore, the conditions that engendered radical Islam are documented, eg, Israel's regional foreign policy during the 1960s & 1970s & the failure to enhance the socio-economic status of the poor classes in Algeria & Morocco. It is concluded that the Islam industry forced US foreign policymakers to advance counterproductive policies in order to prevent fundamentalist Islamic movements from acquiring national power. J. W. Parker

The chapter examines national identities, foreign policy, & otherness (both as a negative & positive feature of identity) as they bear on US-Islam relations, especially in regard to Bosnia. The constructivist approach emphasizes identity as relational & discursive, ie, rooted in speech practices. US foreign policy articulations demonstrate the dependence of American national identity on positive as well as negative Muslim alterities (eg, "good" Bosnia vs "bad" Middle East), bifurcating Islam in the service of a US narrative that justifies & perpetuates American identity. 17 References. K. Coddon