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Informationen zum Autor David W. Lesch is professor of Middle East history at Trinity University. Dr. Lesch is the author or editor of twelve books! including Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad! The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History! 1979: The Year that Shaped the Modern Middle East! and The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the Middle East with coeditor Mark L. Haas. Mark L. Haas is professor in the Political Science Department and the Graduate centre for Social and Public Policy at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He has written numerous articles and is the author or editor of four books! including The Clash of Ideologies: Middle Eastern Politics and American Security The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics! 1789-1989 and The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the Middle East with coeditor David W. Lesch. Klappentext Westview Press is pleased to offer a new! paperback Student Economy Edition of our best-selling title! The Middle East and the United States This Student Economy Edition contains the same material as the updated fifth edition of The Middle East and the United States (ISBN: 9780813349145)!the same text and the same page numbers!and is available to own for about the same price as renting the print book.The 2013 updated fifth edition of the acclaimed The Middle East and the United States brings together scholars and diplomats from the Middle East! Europe! and North America to provide an objective! cross-cultural assessment of US policy toward the Middle East. Regional experts David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas include a new chapter dedicated to the events of the Arab Spring and its aftermath! looking with a special eye to the impact on US interactions with the region.The text also features five new chapters discussing the superpowers and the Middle East throughout the Cold War the Bush and Obama administrations and the Arab-Israeli conflict contemporary US-Syrian relations the importance of ideology to US-Iranian relations under the last three administrations and US relations with al-Qa'ida.Carefully edited and reorganized to place a greater emphasis on current events! The Middle East and the United States provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of US foreign policy and Middle East political history from the first World War through the Arab Spring and beyond. Leading scholars and policy advisors provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage of historical events, updated with an entirely new chapter on the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Zusammenfassung Leading scholars and policy advisors provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage of historical events! updated with an entirely new chapter on the Arab Spring and its aftermath. ...
