U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: From American Missionaries to the Islamic State

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: From American Missionaries to the Islamic State
Edited by Geoffrey F. Gresh, Tugrul Keskin
Routledge – 2018 – 344 pages
https://www.routledge.com/US-Foreign-Policy-in-the-Middle-East-From-American-Missionaries-to-the/Gresh-Keskin/p/book/9780815347149

The dawn of the Cold War marked a new stage of complex U.S. foreign policy involvement in the Middle East. More recently, globalization and the region’s ongoing conflicts and political violence have led to the U.S. being more politically, economically, and militarily enmeshed – for better or worse—throughout the region.
This book examines the emergence and development of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East from the early 1900s to the present. With contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars, it takes a fresh, interdisciplinary, and insightful look into the many antecedents that led to current U.S. foreign policy. Exploring the historical challenges, regional alliances, rapid political change, economic interests, domestic politics, and other sources of regional instability, this volume comprises critical analysis from Iranian, Turkish, Israeli, American, and Arab perspectives to provide a comprehensive examination of the evolution and transformation of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East.
This volume is an important resource for scholars and students working in the fields of Political Science, Sociology, International Relations, Islamic, Turkish, Iranian, Arab, and Israeli Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction—US Foreign Policy in the Middle East  Geoffrey F. Gresh

PART I—Historical Cultural and Economic Interests    
1) From ‘Heathen Turks’ to ‘Cruel Turks’: Changing American Perception and Foreign Policy towards the Middle East by Ozlem Madi-Sisman and Cengiz Sisman    
2) How Big Tobacco Used Islam and Modernity to Conquer Saudi Arabia by Sean Foley    

PART II—Cold War Challenges    
3) How Geography and Ideology Shaped US Foreign Policy during the Cold War by Nickolas A. Spencer      The Ties That Bind: Postwar US Foreign Policy toward Turkey by Gökser Gökçay
4) American Atomic Policy and Hashemite Iraq, 1954-1958 by Elizabeth Bishop    

PART III—Balancing Regional Alliances    
5) Understanding the US-Israeli Alliance by Jeremy Pressman    
6) The United States’ Strategic Relationship with Iran and Turkey: Implications for Cold War and Post-Cold War Order by Suleyman Elik    
7) American-Qatari Partnership in the Post-Gulf Area: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship by Fatma Aslı Kelkitli    
8) US-Gulf Cooperation Council Relations in the Age of the Obama Doctrine by Michael McCall    

PART IV—Rapid Political Change and the Spread of Regional Instability    
9) When Partisanship Captured Strategy: American Foreign Policy and the War in Iraq by Russell A. Burgos    
10) The United States and Political Islam: Dealing with the Egyptian Muslim Brothers in the Arab Revolutions by Mohamed-Ali Adraoui    
11) Promoting or Resisting Change? The United States and the Egyptian Uprising (2011-2012) by Ahmed Ali Salem    
12) Set-up for Failure: The Syria-United States Relationship by Ethan Corbin    
The United States and Iran: The View of the Hardline Conservatives in the Islamic Republic by Hamad Albloshi    
13) Losing Hearts and Minds: The United States, Ideocide, and the Propaganda War Against ISIS by Kelly Gleason    
14) An Imperial Design or Necessity of Political Economy?: Understanding the Underpinnings of a Trump Administration  by Tugrul Keskin