American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 1946-75 - From Orientalism to Professionalism

This book examines US State Department's Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle East hands, showing how their backgrounds and education differed crucially from that of their predecessors. This study focuses on these individuals' transformative role in US foreign relations from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.

List of contents

Introduction: America's Middle East Area Experts; 1. The Orientalists Fade Away; 2. The Middle East Hands Emerge, or, Don't Worry Mother, Your Son Is in the ASTP; 3. Landfall:  Language Training at Beirut, 1946; 4. Filling the Cold War Linguist Gap: The Middle East Area Program in Beirut; 5. "The Departure of Kings, Old Men, and Christians": The Eisenhower Years; 6. Quiet Diplomacy In Action: The Kennedy and Johnson Years; 7. Kissinger's Arabesque: The Nixon And Ford Years; Epilogue: Beirut Axioms: Lessons Learned by the Middle East Hands; Appendix: Brief Biographies; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Teresa Fava Thomas

Product details

• Authors: Teresa Fava Thomas
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781785271809
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-180-9
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous