Imagining the Middle East : the building of an American foreign policy, 1918-1967 /
Jacobs, Matthew F.,
Imagining the Middle East : the building of an American foreign policy, 1918-1967 / Matthew F. Jacobs. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-306) and index.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Task ... Falls to the Area Specialists: National Interests, Knowledge Production, and the Emergence of an Informal Network; 2. The All-Pervading Influence of the Muslim Faith: The Perils and Promise of Political Islam; 3. A New Amalgam of Interests, Religion, Propaganda, and Mobs: Interpretations of Secular Mass Politics; 4. What Modernization Requires of the Arabs ... Is Their De-Arabization: Imagining a Transformed Middle East. 5. A Profound and Growing Disturbance ... Which May Last for Decades: The Arab-Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Limits of the NetworkEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Jacobs examines the ways in which an informal network of academic, business, government, and media specialists interpreted and shared their perceptions of the Middle East from the end of World War I through the late 1960s. During that period, Jacobs argues, members of this network imagined the Middle East as a region defined by certain common characteristics--religion, mass politics, underdevelopment, and an escalating Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict--and as a place that might be transformed through U.S. involvement. Thus, the ways in which specialists and policymakers imagined the Middle Ea.
9780807869314 (electronic bk.) 0807869317 (electronic bk.) 9781469602783 (electronic bk.) 1469602784 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
22573/ctt630r0 JSTOR
1900-1999
Islam and politics--Middle East.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Conflit israélo-arabe.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--International Relations--General.
HISTORY--General.--Middle East
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Diplomatic relations.
Islam and politics.
Politics and government
Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.
Middle East--Foreign relations--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
Middle East--Politics and government--20th century.
Moyen-Orient--Relations extérieures--États-Unis.
États-Unis--Relations extérieures--Moyen-Orient.
Moyen-Orient--Relations extérieures--20e siècle.
États-Unis--Relations extérieures--20e siècle.
Moyen-Orient--Politique et gouvernement--20e siècle.
Middle East.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DS63.2.U5 J34 2011
327.7305609/041 327.7305609041
Imagining the Middle East : the building of an American foreign policy, 1918-1967 / Matthew F. Jacobs. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-306) and index.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Task ... Falls to the Area Specialists: National Interests, Knowledge Production, and the Emergence of an Informal Network; 2. The All-Pervading Influence of the Muslim Faith: The Perils and Promise of Political Islam; 3. A New Amalgam of Interests, Religion, Propaganda, and Mobs: Interpretations of Secular Mass Politics; 4. What Modernization Requires of the Arabs ... Is Their De-Arabization: Imagining a Transformed Middle East. 5. A Profound and Growing Disturbance ... Which May Last for Decades: The Arab-Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Limits of the NetworkEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Jacobs examines the ways in which an informal network of academic, business, government, and media specialists interpreted and shared their perceptions of the Middle East from the end of World War I through the late 1960s. During that period, Jacobs argues, members of this network imagined the Middle East as a region defined by certain common characteristics--religion, mass politics, underdevelopment, and an escalating Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict--and as a place that might be transformed through U.S. involvement. Thus, the ways in which specialists and policymakers imagined the Middle Ea.
9780807869314 (electronic bk.) 0807869317 (electronic bk.) 9781469602783 (electronic bk.) 1469602784 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
22573/ctt630r0 JSTOR
1900-1999
Islam and politics--Middle East.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Conflit israélo-arabe.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--International Relations--General.
HISTORY--General.--Middle East
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Diplomatic relations.
Islam and politics.
Politics and government
Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.
Middle East--Foreign relations--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
Middle East--Politics and government--20th century.
Moyen-Orient--Relations extérieures--États-Unis.
États-Unis--Relations extérieures--Moyen-Orient.
Moyen-Orient--Relations extérieures--20e siècle.
États-Unis--Relations extérieures--20e siècle.
Moyen-Orient--Politique et gouvernement--20e siècle.
Middle East.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DS63.2.U5 J34 2011
327.7305609/041 327.7305609041