Leading scholars and policy advisors provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage of historical, contemporary, and theoretical issues of US foreign policy in the Middle East, updated with a new chapter covering the events of the Arab Spring and it aftermath.

Table of Contents

• Preface to the Fifth Edition
• Note on the Text
• Map of the Middle East
• Introduction, - David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas
• PART ONE 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 US Development Diplomacy in the Near East, 1952–1953, - Paul W. T. Kingston
• 3 US 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 US 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 The United States and Nasserist Pan-Arabism, - Malik Mufti
• 9 The Soviet Perception of the US Threat, - Georgiy Mirsky
• 10 The Superpowers and the Cold War in the Middle East, - Rashid Khalidi
• PART TWO Arab-Israeli War and Peace
• 11 The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: US Actions and Arab Perceptions, - Fawaz A. Gerges
• 12 Flawed Strategies and Missed Signals: Crisis Bargaining Between the Superpowers, October 1973, - Janice Gross Stein
• 13 The United States and Israel: The Nature of a Special Relationship, - Bernard Reich and Shannon Powers
• 14 From Madrid and Oslo to Camp David: The United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1991–2001, - Jeremy Pressman
• 15 George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, - Robert O. Freedman
• PART THREE Allies and Enemies in the Gulf and Beyond
• 16 Americans and the Muslim World—First Encounters, - Robert J. Allison
• 17 The United States in the Persian Gulf: From Twin Pillars to Dual Containment, - Gary Sick
• 18 From “Over the Horizon” to “Into the Backyard”: The US-Saudi Relationship in the Gulf, - F. Gregory Gause III
• 19 The Iraq War of 2003: Why Did the United States Decide to Invade? - Steve A. Yetiv
• 20 What Went Wrong in Iraq? - Ali R. Abootalebi
• 21 The Push and Pull of Strategic Cooperation: The US Relationship with Turkey in the Middle East, - Henri J. Barkey
• 22 The United States and Afghanistan: From Marginality to Strategic Concern, - Marvin G. Weinbaum
• 23 Ideology and Iran's American Policies, 1997–2008, - Mark L. Haas
• 24 Is It Time for the United States to Give Up on Arab Liberals? - Jon B. Alterman
• 25 Islamist Perceptions of US Policy in the Middle East, - Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
• 26 US Relations with al-Qa'ida, - Heather S. Gregg
• 27 New US Policies for a New Middle East? - William B. Quandt
• 28 The United States and the Arab Spring: Threats and Opportunities in a Revolutionary Era, - Mark L. Haas
• About the Editors and Contributors