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During the 45 years of the Cold War, policymakers from the United States and the Soviet Union vied for primacy in the Middle East. Their motives, long held by historians to have had an ideological thrust, were, in fact, to gain control over access to oil and claim geographic and strategic advantage. In his new book, Rashid Khalidi, considered the foremost U.S. historian of the Middle East, makes the compelling case that the dynamics that played out during the Cold War continue to exert a profound influence even decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The pattern of superpower intervention during the Cold War deeply affected and exacerbated regional and civil wars throughout the Middle East, and the carefully calculated maneuvers fueled by the fierce competition between the United States and the USSR actually provoked breakdowns in fragile democracies. To understand the momentous events that have occurred in the region over the last two decades-including two Gulf wars, the occupation of Iraq, and the rise of terrorism-we must, Khalidi argues, understand the crucial interplay of Cold War powers there from 1945 to 1990.

Today, the legacy of the Cold War continues in American policies and approaches to the Middle East that have shifted from a deadly struggle against communism to a War on Terror, and from opposing the Evil Empire to targeting the Axis of Evil. The current U.S. deadlock with Iran and the upsurge of American-Russian tensions in the wake of the conflict in Georgia point to the continued centrality of the Middle East in American strategic attention. Today, with a new administration in Washington, understanding and managing the full impact of this dangerous legacy in order to move America toward a more constructive and peaceful engagement in this critical arena is of the utmost importance.

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Starred Review. Khalidi (Resurrecting Empire) provides a compelling history of modern conflict in the Middle East, arguing that current conflicts are by-products of the cold war and the policies, strategies and priorities of the United States and the Soviet Union. The author illustrates how the cold war rivals saw the Middle East—with its vital location and vast oil and gas reserves—as a tool to further their parallel agendas: the Soviets and Americans both subordinated the goal of Arab-Israeli peace and supplied weapons at a profit to both Iraq and Iran during their eight-year war, while the U.S. sought to further its dominance of the region by backing a coup to overthrow democracy in Iran. Khalidi concludes by charting how George W. Bush's Global War on Terror has allowed for a massive military expansion in the Middle East and resulted in futile and feckless policies that may have increased the actual risk to American citizens and wreaked havoc on the region. Khalidi has written an important book, essential for anyone concerned about the stability of the Middle East. (Mar.)
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A stunningly clear analysis of the geopolitics of Middle East conflicts from 1945 to today. A book not to be missed.—Immanuel Wallerstein, author of European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press; First Edition (February 1, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807003107
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807003107
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.25 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches

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Rashid Khalidi is the author of Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (Beacon Press, 2013) and six other books about the Middle East--Sowing Crisis, The Iron Cage, Resurrecting Empire, Origins of Arab Nationalism, Under Siege, and the award-winning Palestinian Identity. He is the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. He has written more than eighty articles on Middle Eastern history and politics, including pieces in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and many journals. Professor Khalidi has received fellowships and grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the Rockefeller Foundation; he was also the recipient of a Fulbright research award. Professor Khalidi has been a regular guest on numerous radio and TV shows, including All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Nightline.

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Don't Read Much Fiction

Too much outside self-interested 'help'

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2011

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Khalidi takes a historical perspective on the Middle East and its crisis yet uses the lens of foreign involvement as the independent variable throughout. As a result he will leave some details in, others out, add a few interweaving points in order to claim that the U.S., Russia, France and Britain among others have 'sown' the seeds of crisis.

The argument holds water, especially in regards to the Cold War. However, this is not to ignore the fact that internal Arab disputes and their own 'cold war' and realism's hold on dictatorships have given them a few problems all their own. While the U.S. in the last decade has meddled greatly in Iraq and Afghanistan it cannot be said that all of the middle east is still a product of foreign meddling. The middle east is in the international economy and so is its oil. It was rudely introduced to realpolitik in the post WWI era and is becoming quite proficient in the skill today.

It is possible to 'help' too much. Khalidi's description of Lebanon's over-dependence on foreign sources is thought-provoking at best. I don't think world powers are the only pieces of leverage that could extract a tight fisted dictator... then again on this day in summer 2011 my words our hindsight, Khalidi didn't see this coming.

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A Revealing History

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This scholarly work by Prof. Khalidi offers a highly readable history of the Middle East by delving into the numerous historical events that shaped the current situation, presenting these events from the perspectives of the different protagonists and analysing their motives. The imperial aspirations of the big powers from the 19th century, their Cold War and post-Cold War rivalry, provide the background to their continuing influence in this region through their support for venal elites who run some of their client states. The imperial embrace of weak nations under various pretexts such as stability and democracy is often a kiss of death in the longer term. While countries in many other regions have been able to partially extricate themselves from big power politics, the Middle East remains an area big powers still control through client states governed mostly by the undemocratic rulers who rely on external support for their continuation in power. Western readers whose knowledge of the region is based on sanitised versions of world events by "TV experts" and political spin doctors will find this book disturbing.

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Cold War Causes of Modern Problems

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Well-written history of the Middle East during the Cold War. Khalidi finds in the struggle between the U.S. and U.S S.R., many of the causes of present troubles in the Middle East. Cold War, and post-World War II (he highlights that war as an important event itself), concerns over strategic territory, resources and ideological competition, drove the actions of the superpowers.

The results of foreign interventions, Khalidi argues, supporting insurrections, fixing elections, supplying weapons and building military bases, to name a few examples, resulted in increased interstate warfare, as well as the "undermining of democracy," and the growth of authoritarian regimes.

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This historical event written in easy to read langauage.

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I enjoyed this book immensely. I found it to be logical in explaining the cold war era, as it also incorporated the effect it had on the Middle East. It was a great eye-opener showing the US and Soviet Unions struggle to gain dominance and power over the Middle East. I was actually thinking after I had read it `what would have been different if the US had not won the cold war with the Soviet Unions demise'?
A very good read! Left me thinking!

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Great book

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Great book and really good analysis of the cold war

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Jacqueline O'Connor

Book was exactly as described "like new". And Khalidi ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 6, 2015

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Book was exactly as described "like new". And Khalidi is a powerful writer dealing with today's (and yesterday's) events in the Middle East.
Read him!

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No page numbers, only states "location" in kindle version. Very inconvenient for citations.

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Footnotes do no work on Kindle version!

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THE ONE STAR IS FOR THE PRESENTATION, NOT THE CONTENT. The numbered footnotes in the Kindle version are not active - very inconvenient, particularly for a FULL-PRICED KINDLE BOOK.

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Giuseppe Palazzo

Interessante ma un po intrecciato

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Il libro offre un bel quadro di ciò che si propone di fare: dimostrare come l'interventismo americano abbia seminato instabilità nella regione. Ci riesce ma è un po troppo ripetitivo e a volte cade nel wishful thinking, ma nel complesso libro scorrevole da leggere.

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