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Scripting
Middle East
Leaders

The Impact of Leadership Perceptions
on US and UK Foreign Policy

Edited by

Lawrence Freedman

and

Jeffrey H. Michaels

Bloomsbury Academic

An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

175 Fifth Avenue	50 Bedford Square
New York	London
NY 10010	WC1B 3DP
USA	UK

www.bloomsbury.com

First published 2013

Lawrence Freedman, Jeffrey H. Michaels and contributors, 2013

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers.

No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury Academic or the author.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Scripting Middle East leaders : the impact of leadership perceptions on US and UK foreign policy / edited by Lawrence Freedman and Jeffrey H. Michaels.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4411-9165-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-4411-0841-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Middle East--Foreign relations--United States. 2. United States--Foreign relations--Middle East. 3. Middle East--Foreign relations--Great Britain. 4. Great Britain--Foreign relations--Middle East. 5. Middle East--Kings and rulers. 6. Middle East--Politics and government--1945-1979. 7. Middle East--Politics and government--1979- 8. Leadership--Middle East. I. Freedman, Lawrence. II. Michaels, Jeffrey H.

DS63.2.U5S314 2012

327.56073--dc23

2012021555

ISBN: 978-1-4411-8572-3

Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NN

CONTENTS

Christopher Andrew is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Former Chair of the History Faculty at Cambridge University, Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5), Honorary Air Commodore of 7006 Squadron (Intelligence) in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Chair of the British Intelligence Study Group, and former Visiting Professor at Harvard, Toronto and Canberra. His main research interests include twentieth-century political history and international relations with particular reference to the role and influence of intelligence agencies.

Nigel Ashton is Professor of International History at the LSE. His main fields of interest are contemporary AngloAmerican relations and the modern history of the Middle East. These interests came together in his first book, Eisenhower,MacmillanandtheProblemofNasser:AngloAmericanRelationsandArabNationalism,195559 (Macmillan, 1996), which looked at the strategies adopted by Britain and the United States to deal with the Arab nationalist challenge during the 1950s. His second book, Kennedy,MacmillanandtheColdWar:theIronyofInterdependence (Palgrave, 2002), broadened the frame of reference to look at Anglo-American relations over a whole range of international issues during the Kennedy Presidency. This book was awarded the Cambridge Donner Book Prize for 2003. In 2008 his most recent book, KingHusseinofJordan:APoliticalLife, was published by Yale University Press.

Toby Dodge is a Reader in the International Relations Department at the LSE and a Senior Consulting Fellow for the Middle East, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. From September 2004 until September 2011 Dr Dodge taught international relations and the comparative politics of the Middle East in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London. His research concentrates on the evolution of the post-colonial state in the international system. The main focus of this work on the developing world is the state in the Middle East, specifically Iraq.

Sir Lawrence Freedman has been Professor of War Studies at Kings College London since 1982, and Vice-Principal since 2003. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and awarded the CBE in 1996, he was appointed Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign in 1997. He was awarded the KCMG in 2003. In June 2009 he was appointed to serve as a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War. Professor Freedman has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the Cold War, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. His most recent book, A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East ( Doubleday Canada, 2008), won the 2009 Lionel Gelber Prize and Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature.

Rosemary Hollis is Professor of Middle East Policy Studies and Director of the Olive Tree Scholarship Programme at City University London. Her writing, teaching and research focuses on international political and security issues in the Middle East, particularly UK, European and US relations with the region and the international dimensions of regional conflicts. Professor Hollis was formerly Director of Research at Chatham House, with overall responsibility for the research and publications output of the institute, including the formulation, funding, quality and delivery of projects. From 1995 to 2005 she was Head of the Middle East Programme at Chatham House, having spent five years in a similar post at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies. During the 1980s she was a lecturer in Political Science and International Politics at George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she gained her PhD in Political Science, focusing on Britain and the Middle East.

David Houghton is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida. His most recent books are U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Controversies in American Politics and Society (Blackwell, 2002, co-authored with David McKay and Andrew Wroe) and Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases (Routledge, 2008). His area of expertise is decision-making in international relations, with a particular focus on American foreign policy and foreign policy analysis. He has also taught at the Universities of Pittsburgh and Essex, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University.

David Lesch is Professor of Middle East History in the Department of History and Coordinator of the Middle East Concentration in the International Studies Program at Trinity University in San Antonio. He received his MA and PhD (1991) in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. Among his publications are the following books: The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria (Yale University Press, 2005); Syria and the United States: Eisenhowers Cold War in the Middle East (Westview Press, 1992); The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment (editor, Westview Press, 1996, 1999, 2003, 4th edn, 2006); 1979: The Year that Shaped the Modern Middle East

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