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The Middle East and the United States THIRD EDITION The Middle East and the United States A Historical and Political Reassessment edited by David W. Lesch Trinity University 'estview A Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Copyright © 2003 by Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group Westview Press books are available at special discounts for bulk purchases in the United States by corpo rations, institutions, and other organizations. For more information, please contact the Special Markets Department at the Perseus Books Group, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge MA 02142, or call (617) 232-5298 or (800) 255-1514 or email [email protected]. Published in 2003 in the United States of America by Westview Press, 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80301-2877. Find us on the World Wide Web at www.westviewpress.com A Cataloging-in-Publication data record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 0-8133-4049-7 (HC) ISBN 0-8133-3940-5 (pbk.) The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Per manence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984. To my parents, Warren and Margaret Lesch Contents Preface to the Third Edition xi Note on the Text xv Introduction, David W. Lesch 1 Part One From Idealism to Realism Wilsonian Intent to Cold War Practice 1 The Ironic Legacy of the King-Crane Commission, James Gelvin 13 2 The “Ambassador for the Arabs”: The Locke Mission and the Unmaking of U.S. Development Diplomacy in the Near East, 1952-1933, Paul W.T. Kingston 30 3 U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Iran During the Mussadiq Era, Mark Gasiorowski 31 4 Iranian Perceptions of the United States and the Mussadiq Period, Sussan Siavoshi 66 5 The Mussadiq Era in Iran, 1951—1953: A Contemporary Diplomats View, Sir Sam Falle 78 Part Two The Cold War in the Middle East 6 National Security Concerns in U.S. Policy Toward Egypt, 1949-1956, Peter Hahn 89 7 The Perils of Ambiguity: The United States and the Baghdad Pact, Elie Podeh 100 8 The Jckyll-and-Hyde Origins of the U.S.-Jordanian Strategic Relationship, Robert B. Satloff 120 vii VIII Contents 9 The 1957 American-Syrian Crisis: Globalist Policy in a Regional Reality, David W. Lesch 133 10 U.S. Policy and Military Intervention in the 1958 Lebanon Crisis, Erika Alin 149 11 The United States and Nasserist Pan-Arabism, Malik Mufti 168 Part Three War and Peace, War and Peace 12 The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: U.S. Actions and Arab Perceptions, FatvazA. Gerges 191 13 Flawed Strategies and Missed Signals: Crisis Bargaining Between the Superpowers, October 1973y Janice Gross Stein 211 14 The United States and Israel: The Nature of a Special Relationship, Bernard Reich 233 15 The U.S.-PLO Relationship: From Dialogue to the White House \jxwn> JoAnn A. DiGeorgio-Lutz 252 16 The Specifics of the Meaning of Peace in the Middle East, Mohamed Sid-Ahmed 275 Part Four The Gulf Crisis and War 17 The United States in the Persian Gulf: From Twin Pillars to Dual Containment, Gary Sick 291 18 Kuwait and the United States: The Reluctant Ally and U.S. Policy Toward the Gulf, Shafeeq N. Ghabra 308 19 U.S. Input into Iraqi Decisionmaking, 1988-1990, Amatzia Baram 328 20 From “Over the Horizon” to “Into the Backyard”: The U.S.-Saudi Relationship and the Gulf War, F. Gregory Gause III 357 21 The Soviet Union, the Gulf War, and Its Aftermath: A Case Study in Limited Superpower Cooperation, Robert O. Freedman 371 Part Five Retrospective and Reassessment 22 The Soviet Perception of the U.S. Threat, Georgiy Mirsky 397 23 The U.S.-GCC Relationship: Is It a Glass Leaking or a Glass Filling? John Duke Anthony 406 Contents ix 24 The Push and Pull of Strategic Cooperation: The U.S. Relationship with Turkey in the Middle East, Henri J. Barkey 428 25 The United States and Afghanistan: From Marginality to Global Concern, Marvin Weinbaum 443 26 New U.S. Policies for a New Middle East? William Quandt 459 27 Islamist Perceptions of U.S. Policy in the Middle East, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad 467 Postscript: Americans and the Muslim World—First Encounters, Robert J. Allison 491 About the Editor and Contributors 503 Index 507
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