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Freedom's unsteady march
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Tamara Cofman Wittes |
"Dissects the Bush administration's failure to advance freedom in the Middle East. Lays out a strategy for committed U.S. promotion of democracy, arguing that only development of a more liberal and d… |
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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
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Morgan Spurlock |
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock, who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food industry in the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even high… |
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Innocent abroad
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Martin Indyk |
If the next American president wants to succeed in the Middle East, his diplomacy will need to take account of the lessons of past failures, presented here in a gripping book by a former two-time U.S… |
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America And The Imperialism Of Ignorance Us Foreign Policy Since 1945
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Andrew Alexander |
335 p., [8] pages of plates : 24 cm |
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The Arab lobby
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Mitchell Geoffrey Bard |
"Critics claim that a nefarious Israel Lobby dictates U.S. policy in the Middle East. Yet the Arab Lobby in this country is older, richer, and more powerful than AIPAC"-- |
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Directorate S
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Steve Coll |
Traces America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the years since 9/11, and how the U.S. efforts in the Afghan War falt… |
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A shadow over Palestine
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Keith P. Feldman |
"Upon signing the first U.S. arms agreement with Israel in 1962, John F. Kennedy assured Golda Meir that the United States had "a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East," comparable only… |
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Choice of Enemies
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Lawrence Freedman |
A prize-winning historian takes an exceptionally clear-eyed look at America's strategic predicament in the Middle East, over the past 30 years. |
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Thirteen days in September
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Lawrence Wright |
A gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace… |
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Pathways to peace
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Daniel Kurtzer |
"Upheavals in the Middle East are challenging long held assumptions about politics and governance. The United States faces a moment of truth when half-measures, short-sighted expedients, and delays c… |
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Three kings
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Lloyd C. Gardner |
As American policy makers ponder a strategy for withdrawal from Iraq, one of our preeminent diplomatic historians uncovers the largely hidden story of how the United States got into the Middle East i… |
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Sowing crisis
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Rashid Khalidi |
"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 t… |
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A world of trouble
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Patrick Tyler |
Tyler draws on newly opened presidential archives to dramatize the approach to the Middle East across U.S. presidencies from Eisenhower to George W. Bush, showing how each president has managed to un… |
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The Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy
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John J. Mearsheimer,Stephen M. Walt,John J. Mearsheimer |
Does America's pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy? This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing out into the open America's relationship with the Israel l… |
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The Much Too Promised Land
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Aaron David Miller |
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 securi… |
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