Middle East and the United States: Perceptions and Policies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878557520 ISBN 13: 9780878557523

Publisher: Routledge, 1980

Synopsis

Like its two predecessors in the Collected Papers series, this volume is based on the proceedings of an international colloquium held at Tel Aviv University. The colloquium was organized in March 1978 by the Shiloah Center in cooperation with the University's newly established Center for Strategic Studies.

As the title and subtitle imply, special emphasis was laid on the images and perceptions that people of the Middle East and the United States have had of one another, and the way in which their relationship is viewed from within the area, from Washington and from other pertinent vantage points. The conference also dealt with five other major issues: the historic background and evolution of American policy in the Middle East (papers by Elie Kedourie from the London School of Economics and Wilfrid Knapp from Oxford University); American interests in the Middle East (papers by Uzi Arad from Tel Aviv University, Gad Gilbar from Haifa University, and Bernard Reich from George Washington University); the international context within which American policy in the area is conducted (Ya'acov Ro'i from Tel Aviv University, Richard Rosecrance from Cornell University, and Udo Steinbach from the Orient Institut in Hamburg); the formulation of American policies in the Middle East (Steven Spiegel from UCLA); and America's bilateral relationship with several Middle Eastern states (papers by Yoram Dinstein,Yair Evron, Gideon Gera, Itamar Rabinovich. anc Shimon Shamir from Tel Aviv University, and John Waterbury from Princeton University); the papers which dealt directly with views, images, and their depiction were presented by Bernard Lewis from Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, and Haim Shaked from Tel Aviv University.

Contents and Contributors: Introduction / Background and Evolution Elie Kedourie, The Transition from a British to an American Era in the Middle East; Wilfrid Knapp. The U.S. and the Middle East: How Many Special Relationships? /Formulation of American Policies Richard Rosecrance, Objectives of U.S.-Middle East Policy; Bernard Reich, U.S. Interests in the Middle East; Steven L. Spiegel, The Carter Approach to the Arab-Israeli Dispute / The International Context Udo Steinbach, The European Community and the U.S. in the Arab World: Yaacov Ro'i, The U.S. Role in the Middle East / The Regional Development Bernard Lewis, The U.S., Turkey, and Iran; Itamar Rabinovich, The Challenge of Diversity; Gideon Gera, Libya and the U.S. / Oil and Economics Gad G. Gilbar, The Economics of Interdependence; Uzi Arad, The Short Term Effectiveness of an Arab Oil Embargo / Cairo and Washington Shimon Shamir, Egypt's Reorientation Towards the U.S.; Haim Shaked, A Stereotype Illustrated: An Egyptian Cartoonist's Preception of the U.S.', John Water-hurry, The Implications of Infitah for U.S.Egyptian Relations / Strategic and legal Aspects Yair Evron, Some Political and Strategic Implications of an American-Israeli Defense Treaty; Yoram Dinstein, International Guarantees and the Middle East Conflict

About this title

About the Author:

Haim Shaked is professor in the department of international studies and the director of the Sue and Leonard Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami. Some of his books include The Middle East and The United States, From June to October, and Arab Relations in the Middle East.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0878557520
• ISBN 13: 9780878557523
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 419
• Editor: Shaked Haim