Us Foreign Policy in the Middle East: From Crises to Change (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754675242)

US foreign policy in the Middle East has for the most part been shaped by the eruption of major crises that have revealed the deficiency in and bankruptcy of existing consensus and conceptions. Crises generate a new set of ideas to address the roots of the crisis and construct a new reality that would best serve US interests. Further, crises stimulate new ideological and ideational debates that de-legitimate existing practices and prevailing ideas. Yakub Halabi analyzes the way ideas and conceptions have guided US foreign policy in the Middle East, the erection of institutions through which these ideas were brought into practice, and the manner in which these ideas became obsolete and were modified by new ideas. The selection of crises examined is persuasive and provides a critical lens to observe important turning points in American foreign policy.

Author: Yakub Halabi
ISBN-10: 0754675246
ISBN-13: 9780754675242
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2009
Pages: 170
Format: Hardcover

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 171