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In The Arab Middle East and the United States, Burton I. Kaufman presents a comprehensive survey of U.S. involvement with the Arab nations from World War II to the present. Kaufman focuses both on the critical role of the United States in the history of Arab-Israeli relations and on U.S. interest in the vast oil resources of the Arab nations. He explores these intertwined, but often conflicting, developments with an emphasis on the internal divisions within the Arab world. In fact, Kaufman's examination of the historical differences, rivalries, competing ambitions, and confrontations that characterize inter-Arab relations challenges the very concept of an "Arab world," offering new insights into the complexities of U.S.-Middle East diplomacy. Kaufman also details the impact of the cold war on U.S.-Arab relations. In his view, Washington's abiding concern with communist expansion after 1945 pervaded and perverted the U.S. approach to the Arab Middle East. Combined with the rise of Arab nationalism, Kaufman argues, the hardening of the cold war led to an American myopia regarding the Middle East that a more regional perspective might have avoided. Kaufman presents his conclusions in

Author

Burton I. Kaufman, Burton Ira Kaufman

Publisher

Twayne Publishers ; Prentice Hall International

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805792119

Subjects

Political Science, History, Language Learning