Kicking the Hornet's Nest - Thirteen U.s. Presidents in the Middle East

In Kicking the Hornet’s Nest, Zoughbie shows how, from Truman to Trump, the actions of American presidents have paved the way for instability and unrest in the Middle East.

About the author

Daniel E. Zoughbie is a complex-systems scientist, a historian, and an expert on presidential decision-making. He is associate project scientist at the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley; a faculty affiliate of the UCSF/UCB Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy, and Economics; and a faculty affiliate at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge. He is also principal investigator of the Middle East and North Africa Diplomacy, Development, and Defense Initiative and author of Indecision Points: George W. Bush and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (MIT Press, 2014). His award-winning research has been published in journals such as PLOS Medicine, PLOS Complex Systems, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, JAIDS, and Social Science and Medicine. Zoughbie has been appointed to positions at Georgetown University, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Bologna, University College Dublin, University of Athens, and Campus Bio Medico University of Rome. Zoughbie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley. He studied at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship and completed his doctorate, also at Oxford, as a Weidenfeld Scholar.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel E Zoughbie, Daniel Zoughbie, Daniel E Zoughbie
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 07.10.2025
• EAN: 9781668085226
• ISBN: 978-1-66808-522-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Israel, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, United States of America, USA, Middle Eastern history, Central / national / federal government, Central government