Geoffrey F. Gresh (editor) - US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: From American Missionaries to the Islamic State

These critical studies of US foreign policy in the Middle East cover Americas involvement with the region and its peoples from the Founding Fathers to the Trump presidency. Gresh and Keskin bring together key experts from the US, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe in a wide-ranging assessment of how US foreign policy increasingly has been shaped by the cultural, economic, ideological, and strategic complexities of the Middle East after 1941. Accessible and engaging, it develops an excellent in-depth assessment of the geopolitical challenges that American foreign policy-makers face in this region during the 21st century.

Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East provides critical analyses from multiple cultural perspectives of instabilities in the Middle East. It provides a comprehensive examination of American foreign policy for a strategically important part of the world that is in the midst of difficult and challenging transformations. The book is especially important because the efforts of U.S. leadership to foster global security are profoundly affected by the current upheavals in the greater Middle East. These diplomatic efforts require the participation, support, and knowledge of U.S. allies.

Andrew C. Hess, Professor of Diplomacy & Director of the Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

The dawn of the Cold War marked a new stage of complex US foreign policy involvement in the Middle East. More recently, globalization and the regions ongoing conflicts and political violence have led to the US being more politically, economically, and militarily enmeshed for better or worse throughout the region.

This book examines the emergence and development of US foreign policy toward the Middle East from the late nineteenth century to the present. With contributions from some of the worlds leading scholars, it takes a fresh, interdisciplinary, and insightful look into the many antecedents that led to current US foreign policy. Exploring the historical challenges, regional alliances, rapid political change, economic interests, domestic politics, and other sources of regional instability, this volume comprises critical analysis from Iranian, Turkish, Israeli, American, and Arab perspectives to provide a comprehensive examination of the evolution and transformation of US foreign policy toward the Middle East.

This volume is an important resource for scholars and students working in the fields of Political Science, Sociology, International Relations, and Islamic, Turkish, Iranian, Arab, and Israeli Studies.

Geoffrey F. Gresh is Department Chair and Associate Professor of International Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University in Washington, DC.

Tugrul Keskin is Associate Professor and member of the Center for Turkish Studies and Center for Global Studies at Shanghai University.

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US Foreign Policy in the Middle East

From American Missionaries to the Islamic State

Edited by

Geoffrey F. Gresh and Tugrul Keskin

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Names: Gresh, Geoffrey F., 1979- editor. | Keskin, Tugrul, editor.

Title: US foreign policy in the Middle East : from American missionaries to the Islamic State / edited by Geoffrey Gresh and Tugrul Keskin.

Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge studies in US foreign policy | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017050670 | ISBN 9780815347149 (hardback) | ISBN 9781351169646 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: United States--Foreign relations--Middle East. | Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.

Classification: LCC DS63.2.U5 U17 2018 | DDC 327.73056--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017050670

ISBN: 9780815347149 (hbk)

ISBN: 9781351169646 (ebk)

Geoffrey F. Gresh is Department Chair and Associate Professor of International Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, DC. He is also former Director of the South and Central Asia Security Studies Program at NDU. Previously, he served as a Visiting Fellow at Sciences Po in Paris and was the recipient of a Dwight D. Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Fellowship. He also received a US Fulbright-Hays grant to teach international relations at Salahaddin University in Erbil, Iraq. He has been awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to Istanbul, Turkey, and a Presidential Scholarship at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Additionally, he has worked with Colombian refugees in Quito, Ecuador. Most recently, he was named as a US-Japan Foundation Leadership Fellow, an Associate Member of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies at Kings College in London, and a term member to the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of