The pragmatic superpower : winning the Cold War in the Middle East / Ray Takeyh and Steven Simon.

By: Takeyh, Ray, 1966- [author.]Contributor(s): Simon, Steven [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 396 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393081510; 0393081516Subject(s): United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East | Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- | Cold War | HISTORY -- Middle East | POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Geopolitics | POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Middle Eastern | Cold War (1945-1989) | Diplomatic relations | Middle East | United States | Since 1945DDC classification: 327.7305609/045 LOC classification: DS63.2.U5 | T36 2016
Contents:
Prologue: American apogee -- The Iran Crisis of 1946 and the Cold War's first conflict -- The Palestine question -- America, Iran, and the coup -- The Suez War -- 1958: the year of the revolutions -- The Six-Day War -- From the Yom Kippur War to the Camp David Accords -- Iran revolts -- The Iran-Iraq War -- The Gulf War.
Summary: Two foreign policy experts reflect on the United States' former policies of diplomacy in the Middle East--particularly during the founding of Israel, the Suez War, and the Iranian revolution--and argue that similar strategies would help today.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: American apogee -- The Iran Crisis of 1946 and the Cold War's first conflict -- The Palestine question -- America, Iran, and the coup -- The Suez War -- 1958: the year of the revolutions -- The Six-Day War -- From the Yom Kippur War to the Camp David Accords -- Iran revolts -- The Iran-Iraq War -- The Gulf War.

Two foreign policy experts reflect on the United States' former policies of diplomacy in the Middle East--particularly during the founding of Israel, the Suez War, and the Iranian revolution--and argue that similar strategies would help today.

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