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Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
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Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East Hardback - 2009

by Rashid Khalidi

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During the 45 years of the Cold War, policymakers from the United States and the Soviet Union vied for primacy in the Middle East. Their motives, long held by historians to have had an ideological thrust, were, in fact, to gain control over access to oil and claim geographic and strategic advantage. In his new book, Rashid Khalidi, considered the foremost U.S. historian of the Middle East, makes the compelling case that the dynamics that played out during the Cold War continue to exert a profound influence even decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The pattern of superpower intervention during the Cold War deeply affected and exacerbated regional and civil wars throughout the Middle East, and the carefully calculated maneuvers fueled by the fierce competition between the United States and the USSR actually provoked breakdowns in fragile democracies. To understand the momentous events that have occurred in the region over the last two decades-including two Gulf wars, the occupation of Iraq, and the rise of terrorism-we must, Khalidi argues, understand the crucial interplay of Cold War powers there from 1945 to 1990.
Today, the legacy of the Cold War continues in American policies and approaches to the Middle East that have shifted from a deadly struggle against communism to a War on Terror, and from opposing the Evil Empire to targeting the Axis of Evil. The current U.S. deadlock with Iran and the upsurge of American-Russian tensions in the wake of the conflict in Georgia point to the continued centrality of the Middle East in American strategic attention. Today, with a new administration in Washington, understanding and managing the full impact of this dangerous legacy in order to move America toward a more constructive and peaceful engagement in this critical arena is of the utmost importance.

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  • Title Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
  • Author Rashid Khalidi
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 308
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Beacon Press (MA), Boston
  • Publication date 2009-02-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780807003107 / 0807003107
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.2 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 3.05 cm)
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Middle East - Foreign relations - United, United States - Foreign relations - Middle
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008037146
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.730

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A stunningly clear analysis of the geopolitics of Middle East conflicts from 1945 to today. A book not to be missed.—Immanuel Wallerstein, author of European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power

About the author

Rashid Khalidi is the author of seven books about the Middle East, including "Palestinian Identity," " Brokers of Deceit, Resurrecting Empire," "The Iron Cage," and "Sowing Crisis. "His writing on Middle Eastern history and politics has appeared in the "New York Times," "Boston Globe," " Los Angeles Times," "Chicago Tribune," and many journals. For his work on the Middle East, Professor Khalidi has received fellowships and grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. He is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University in New York and is editor of the "Journal of Palestine Studies."

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