Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East

by Joel S. Migdal

Joel S. Migdal revisits the approach U.S. officials have adopted toward the Middle East since World War II, which paid scant attention to tectonic shifts in the region. After the war, the United States did not restrict its strategic model to the Middle East. Beginning with Harry S. Truman, American presidents applied a uniform strategy rooted in the country's Cold War experience in Europe to regions across the globe, designed to project America...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231166729
• ISBN13: 9780231166720
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher