Troubled triangle : the United States, Turkey and Israel in the new Middle East / William B. Quandt, editor.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Proceedings of a conference held by the Center for International Studies, University of Virginia, on April 1, 2011."

Note from the Center for International Studies, U. Va. -- Preface / William B. Quandt -- 1. The U.S.-Israel-Turkey strategic triangle : Cold War structures and domestic political processes / F. Gregory Gause, III -- 2. Reshuffling the cards : Turkey, Israel, and the United States in the Middle East / Soli Özel -- 3. The Israeli-Turkish relationship / Shlomo Brom -- 4. Strategic perspectives : comments and discussion / Ellen Laipson, Philip Zelikow, Brantly Womack, and others -- 5. The U.S.-Turkey relationship : a view from the Obama administration / Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Tina S. Kaidanow -- 6. The broken triangle : How the U.S.-Israeli-Turkish relationship got unglued / Henri Barkey -- 7. Turkey's relations with the United States and Israel under the Justice and Development Party government / Yaprak Gürsoy -- 8. Israel and Turkey : domestic politics and foreign policy / Daniel Levy -- 9. Domestic influences : comments and discussion / Allen Lynch, Jeffrey Legro, and others -- 10. Iran, Israel, the United States, and Turkey in a changing Middle East environment / Trita Parsi -- 11. The Iranian factor : comments and discussion / Ruhi Ramazani, Farzaneh Milani, and others -- Glossary and dramatis personae.

Since early 2009, it has seemed that the once-warm relations between Turkey and Israel have reached crisis point. To complicate matters further, both countries are close partners of the United States. In this timely title, a group of leading scholar-practitioners from all three countries jointly explore this crisis. In April 2011, University of Virginia politics professor and veteran Middle East analyst William B. Quandt brought leading scholar-practitioners from Israel, Turkey, and the United States to a one-day gathering at the University of Virginia. Their task: To unravel and try to understand the tangle of accusations, sensitivities, fears, and misunderstandings that had arisen among policymakers in these three capitals. Troubled Triangle: The United States, Turkey, and Israel in the New Middle East is a record of the deliberations among these experts, that has been edited by Dr. Quandt.--Publisher description.