Western Foreign Policy and the Middle East
This book examines Western foreign policy towards the Middle East and the extent to which the promotion of democracy has been in conflict with, or supported by, other goals (geo-strategic, economic, and cultural) in the policies of the major actors towards the Middle East. Does the Arab Spring provide a new opening for cooperation with the region? Contributions are offered by scholars with research interests in Middle Eastern politics and by those analysing the policies and interests of external actors.
Against the backdrop of the recent War on Terror, the comparative and interdisciplinary outlook of the book offers the opportunity for much needed intellectual exchanges between political scientists, contemporary historians, and international relations scholars from Europe, North America and the Middle East. Since it follows the final phases of US and British withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, this book will be highly relevant to both academics and policy-makers in the UK and abroad, making a significant contribution not only to the scholarly investigation of Western foreign policies, but also to the study of the Middle East in general.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
Christian Kaunert is Professor of International Politics, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Justice and Home Affairs, and Director of the European Institute for Security and Justice at the University of Dundee, UK. He is co-Director of the European Union Studies Association special interest section on the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
Sarah Lonard is Senior Lecturer in Politics, Jean Monnet Coordinator of the PhD Summer School on the EUs Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, and Deputy Director of the European Institute for Security and Justice at the University of Dundee, UK.
Lars Berger is Associate Professor in International Security at the University of Leeds, UK. His research embraces qualitative and quantitative methods in the study of Islamist terrorism, US domestic, foreign and counterterrorism policies, as well as the domestic and international politics of the Arab and Muslim world.
Gaynor Johnson is Professor of History at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. She is interested in international history, in particular the role of ambassadors in the conduct of British foreign policy in the first half of the twentieth century, and is currently working on a major AHRC-funded project with Professor John Keiger.
Western Foreign Policy and the Middle East
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Christian Kaunert, Sarah Lonard, Lars Berger and Gaynor Johnson
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Contents
Christian Kaunert, Sarah Lonard, Lars Berger & Gaynor Johnson
Brandon King
Magdalena Kirchner
Meltem Mftler-Ba
Kelly J Shannon
Thomas Demmelhuber & Christian Kaunert
Christian Kaunert & Kamil Zwolski
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, volume 27, issue 3 (September 2014). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1:
Introduction: rethinking Western foreign policy and the Middle East
Christian Kaunert, Sarah Lonard, Lars Berger & Gaynor Johnson
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, volume 27, issue 3 (September 2014) pp. 495502
Chapter 2
In the eye of the storm: Ambassador James Richards mission to Iraq in April 1957
Brandon King
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, volume 27, issue 3 (September 2014) pp. 503520
Chapter 3
A good investment? State sponsorship of terrorism as an instrument of Iraqi foreign policy (19791991)
Magdalena Kirchner
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, volume 27, issue 3 (September 2014) pp. 521537
Chapter 4
Changing Turkish foreign policy towards Iraq: new tools of engagement
Meltem Mftler-Ba
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, volume 27, issue 3 (September 2014) pp. 538552
Chapter 5
Im glad Im not a Saudi woman: the First Gulf War and US encounters with Saudi gender relations
Kelly J Shannon
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, volume 27, issue 3 (September 2014) pp. 553573
Chapter 6
The EU and the Gulf monarchies: normative power Europe in search of a strategy for engagement
Thomas Demmelhuber & Christian Kaunert
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, volume 27, issue 3 (September 2014) pp. 574592
Chapter 7
Somalia versus Captain Hook: assessing the EUs security actorness in countering piracy off the Horn of Africa
Christian Kaunert & Kamil Zwolski
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, volume 27, issue 3 (September 2014) pp. 593612
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Lars Berger is Associate Professor in International Security at the University of Leeds, UK. His research embraces qualitative and quantitative methods in the study of Islamist terrorism, US domestic, foreign and counterterrorism policies, as well as the domestic and international politics of the Arab and Muslim world.
Thomas Demmelhuber is W1-Professor for Political Science at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. His PhD on EUEgyptian relations was awarded the German Middle East Studies Associations dissertation prize for best PhD in Middle Eastern studies in 2008. His monograph entitled
