The Middle East and the United States : a historical and political reassessment / edited by David W. Lesch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Note on the text -- Introduction / David W. Lesch -- part 1. From idealism to realism : Wilsonian intent to Cold War practice -- 1. The ironic legacy of the King-Crane Commission / James Gelvin -- 2. The "Ambassador for the Arabs" : the Locke Mission and the unmaking of U.S. development diplomacy in the Near East, 1952-1953 / Paul W.T. Kingston -- 3. U.S. foreign policy toward Iran during the Mussadiq era / Mark Gasiorowski -- 4. The Mussadiq era in Iran, 1951-1953 : a contemporary diplomat's view / Sir Sam Falle -- 5. National security concerns in U.S. policy toward Egypt, 1949-1956 / Peter Hahn -- 6. The perils of ambiguity : the United States and the Baghdad Pact / Elie Podeh -- 7. The 1957 American-Syrian Crisis : globalist policy in a regional reality / David W. Lesch -- 8. U.S. policy and military intervention in the 1958 Lebanon Crisis / Erika Alin -- 9. The United States and Nasserist Pan-Arabism / Malik Mufti --

part 2. Arab-Israeli war and peace -- 10. The 1967 Arab-Israeli War : U.S. actions and Arab perceptions / Fawaz A. Gerges -- 11. Flawed strategies and missed signals : crisis bargaining between the superpowers, October 1973 / Janice Gross Stein -- 12. The United States and Israel : the nature of a special relationship / Bernard Reich -- 13. The U.S.-PLO relationship : from dialogue to the White House lawn / JoAnn A. DiGeorgio-Lutz -- 14. From Madrid and Oslo to Camp David : The United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1991-2001 / Jeremy Pressman -- 15. The Bush Administration and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: the first term and beyond / Robert O. Freedman --

part 3. Gulf wars -- 16. The United States in the Persian Gulf: from twin pillars to dual containment / Gary Sick -- 17. Closing the distance: Kuwait and the United States in the Persian Gulf / Shafeeq N. Ghabra -- 18. U.S. input into Iraqi decisionmaking, 1988-1990 / Amatzia Baram -- 19. From "over the horizon" to "into the backyard" : the U.S.-Saudi relationship in the Gulf / F. Gregory Gause III -- 20. The Iraq War of 2003 : why did the United States decide to invade? / Steve A. Yetiv -- 21. What went wrong in Iraq? / Ali R. Abootalebi -- part 4. Retrospective and reassessment -- 22. The Soviet perception of the U.S. threat / Georgiy Mirsky -- 23. The push and pull of strategic cooperation : the U.S. relationship with Turkey in the Middle East / Henri J. Barkey -- 24. The United States and Afghanistan : from marginality to global concern / Marvin G. Weinbaum -- 25. Is it time for the United States to give up on Arab liberals / Jon B. Alterman -- 26. New US policies for a new Middle East / William B. Quandt -- 27. Islamist perceptions of US policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Postscript : Americans and the Muslim world - first encounters / Robert J. Allison -- About the editor and contributors -- Index.