TY - BOOK AU - Takeyh,Ray AU - Simon,Steven TI - The pragmatic superpower: winning the Cold War in the Middle East SN - 9780393081510 AV - DS63.2.U5 T36 2016 U1 - 327.7305609/045 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Company KW - Cold War (1945-1989) KW - fast KW - Cold War KW - HISTORY KW - Middle East KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Geopolitics KW - World KW - Middle Eastern KW - Diplomatic relations KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - 1945-1989 KW - 1989- N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -