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Arab-Israeli conflict 1973-1993 Arab-Israeli conflict 1993- Peace Israel Politics and government 1967-1993 Israel Politics and government 1993- Middle East Foreign relations United States Middle East Politics and government 21st century Palestinian Arabs Politics and government 1993- Ross, Dennis United States Foreign relations Middle East United States Politics and government 21st centuryKhalidi, Rashid.
Summary: Analyzes three historical moments from the past thirty-five years to reveal how the U.S. and Israel have worked together to prevent the emergence of a Palestinian state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.053 KHASimon, Steven
Summary: "A longtime American foreign policy insider's biting and definitive reckoning with the high cost of this country's ambitious meddling in the Middle East-and its bitter end The culmination of almost 40 years of expertise and insider policy access, Grand Delusion is Steven Simon's tour de force, offering a comprehensive yet analytical tour of U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Simon begins with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73056 SIMGerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: "During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to distance the United States from the neoconservative foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and usher in a new era of a global, interconnected world. More than two years have passed since his inauguration, and the reality of President Obama's approach is in stark contrast to the ebullient and optimistic image that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GERCarter, Jimmy
Summary: President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. He has stayed in touch with the major players from all sides in the conflict and has made numerous trips to the Holy Land, most recently as an observer in the Palestinian elections of 2005 and 2006. In this book President Carter shares...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 CARBlumenthal, Max
Summary: THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. Washington's secret funding of the Mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BLUBacevich, Andrew J
Summary: A critical assessment of America's foreign policy in the Middle East throughout the past four decades evaluates and connects regional engagements since 1990 while revealing their massive costs. From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 BACMiller, Aaron David.
Summary: For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors has given him a unique perspective on a problem that American leaders have wrestled with for more than half a century. Why has the world's greatest superpower failed to broker, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 MILGerolymatos, André.
Summary: Provides an account of the history of covert operations in the Middle East, looking at how the United States and other Western powers have tried to establish control over the region's resources and commerce, while at the same time working to prevent the spread of communism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1241 GERRoss, Dennis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.053 ROSRuebner, Josh.
Summary: Argues that the Obama administration has not been successful in its efforts to broker peace between Israel and Palestine because of the President's deferment to Israeli policy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 RUEOren, Michael B.
Summary: From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the conquest of Falluja by the Marines--from the early American explorers who probed the sources of the Nile to the diplomats who strove for Arab-Israeli peace--the United States has been dramatically involved in the Middle East. For well over two centuries, American statesmen, merchants, and missionaries, both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W.Norton 2007