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James zogby lara friedman shibley telhami jake walles. Us failures in middle east policy middle east post. In the middle east, iran is competing with its neighbors, asserting an arc of influence and instability while vying for regional hegemony, using statesponsored terrorist activities, a growing network of proxies, and its missile program to achieve its objectives. This book provides a comprehensive historical overview of us foreign policy in the middle east using the theoretical framework of offensive realism and highlighting the role of geography and regional power distribution in guiding foreign policy. Uncertain strategic implicationsthe united states relied on friendly arab regimes and israel as security partners during the cold war and in the struggle. Islam, culture, and feminist activism prepared for hdr 2004. American policy during the cold war tried to prevent soviet union influence by supporting anticommunist regimes and backing israel against sovietsponsored arab countries. Crises generate a new set of ideas to address the roots of the crisis and construct a new reality that would best serve us interests. Events over the past three months in the middle east from kirkuk to syria, beirut to sana, from iranian surrogate missile strikes against key saudi and emirati targets to israels increasingly dramatic attacks against hezbollah and iran in syriaform a pattern, illustrating the breadth of regional crises, irans facility in benefiting from them, and the absence of a guiding u. Hillary clinton seeks to renew the us pursuit of primacy in the middle east. The national defense strategy acknowledges an increasingly complex global security environment.
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