The Norwegian University of Science and Technology hosted a conference on the Anglo-American Middle East in Trondheim May 2 to May 4, 2005. A distinguished group of scholars accepted our invitations and gracefully agreed to rewrite their lectures for inclusion in this book. They also easily transcended the, perhaps, narrow theme of the conference, making their papers a sophisticated discussion, by and large, how the different great powers have, not always successfully, tried to control the Middle East. Hence the title of this book, Controlling the Uncontrollable? The Great Powers in the Middle East. Edward Ingram compares with a grand sweep the British and the American imperial experience in the Middle East, he notes that too many scholars exaggerate the power of nineteenth-century Great Britain in order to compare it with the present day 'US paramountcy'. Alan Milward is on a different tack, explaining how the oil crisis and oil embargo forced the European Common Market to take a new approach towards the Arabs, in the process cutting loose from the American embrace and laying the foundation for a common EU foreign policy. In his article, Douglas Little deepens our understanding of his concept American Orientalism "the tendency to dismiss Muslims as backward, decadent and evil", ending his essay with a withering criticism of George W. Bush who has rejected the doctrine of containment in favour of preventive war when invading Iraq, needlessly creating the current imbroglio there. Peter Hahn discusses American-Israeli relations in the period 1945-1961, showing that Israeli and American officials were often at loggerheads on the future of the Jewish state. Rounding off the essays is Mary Ann Heiss' account of key episodes of American oil policy sine 1945. Even with the importance of oil, as Heiss explains, the balance of power had by 1974 shifted in favour of the oil producers; that had "shrewdly divided the Atlantic Alliance, pitting the Western Europeans against both the Americans and each other".
Les mer
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology hosted a conference on the Anglo-American Middle East in Trondheim May 2 to May 4, 2005. A distinguished group of scholars accepted our invitations and agreed to rewrite their lectures for inclusion in this book. They also easily transcended the narrow theme of the conference, making their papers a sophisticated discussion, by and large, how the different great powers have, not always successfully, tried to control the Middle East. With index.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9788251921909
Publisert
2007
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Tapir akademisk forlag
Vekt
322 gr
Aldersnivå
Voksen
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Sjanger
Faglitteratur

Redaktør