The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan

The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan Review

The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict illuminates the controversial course of America's Middle East relations from the birth of Israel to the Reagan administration. Skillfully separating actual policymaking from the myths that have come to surround it, Spiegel challenges the belief that American policy in the Middle East is primarily a relation to events in that region or is motivated by bureaucratic constraints or the pressures of domestic politics. On the contrary, he finds that the ideas and skills of the president and his advisors are critical to the determination of American policy. This volume received the 1986 National Jewish Book Award.

The Future Security Environment in the Middle East: Conflict, Stability, and Political Change

The Future Security Environment in the Middle East: Conflict, Stability, and Political Change Review

Surveys several Middle East security issues and their implications for U.S. foreign policy.

At War's End: Building Peace after Civil Conflict

At War's End: Building Peace after Civil Conflict Review

Exploring the challenge of rehabilitating countries after civil wars, this study finds that attempting to transform war-shattered states into liberal democracies with market economies can backfire badly. Roland Paris contends that the rapid introduction of democracy and capitalism in the absence of effective institutions can increase rather than decrease the danger of renewed fighting. A more effective approach to post-conflict peacebuilding would be to introduce political and economic reform in a gradual and controlled manner.