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Informationen zum Autor Salim Yaqub Klappentext Salim Yaqub is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East. Zusammenfassung In Imperfect Strangers, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Politics of Stalemate: The Nixon Administration and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1972 2. A Stirring at the Margins: Arab American Political Activism, 1967-1973 3. From Munich to Boulder: Domestic Antiterrorism and Arab American Communities, 1972-1973 4. Rumors of War-and War: February-October 1973 5. Scuttle Diplomacy: Henry Kissinger and the Middle East Peace Process, 1973-1976 6. Future Shock: The Speculative Mode in American Discourse on the Arab World, 1974-1978 7. Fallen Cedar: The Lebanese Civil War and the United States, 1975-1979 8. Camp David Retreat: Jimmy Carter and Arab-Israeli Diplomacy, 1977-1979 9. Abdul Enterprises: Arab Petrodollars in the United States, 1974-1981 10. The Center Cannot Hold: Americans, Arabs, and the Wider Middle East, 1979-1980 Epilogue
