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Imperfect strangers : Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East relations in the 1970s / Salim Yaqub.

By: Series: United States in the worldPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016Copyright date: 2016Description: viii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780801448836
  • 0801448832
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS 63.2 .U5 Y373 2016
Contents:
The politics of stalemate: the Nixon administration and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1972 -- A stirring at the margins: Arab-American political activism, 1967-1973 -- From Munich to Boulder: domestic anti-terrorism and Arab-American communities, 1972-1973 -- Rumors of war-and war: February-October 1973 -- Scuttle diplomacy: Henry Kissinger and the Middle East peace process, 1973-1976 -- Future shock: the speculative mode in American discourse on the Arab world, 1974-1978 -- Fallen cedar: the Lebanese civil war and the United States, 1975-1979 -- Camp David retreat: Jimmy Carter and Arab-Israeli diplomacy, 1977-1979 -- Abdul enterprises: Arab petrodollars in the United States, 1974-1981 -- The center cannot hold: Americans, Arabs, and the wider Middle East, 1979-1980.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-444) and index.

The politics of stalemate: the Nixon administration and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1972 -- A stirring at the margins: Arab-American political activism, 1967-1973 -- From Munich to Boulder: domestic anti-terrorism and Arab-American communities, 1972-1973 -- Rumors of war-and war: February-October 1973 -- Scuttle diplomacy: Henry Kissinger and the Middle East peace process, 1973-1976 -- Future shock: the speculative mode in American discourse on the Arab world, 1974-1978 -- Fallen cedar: the Lebanese civil war and the United States, 1975-1979 -- Camp David retreat: Jimmy Carter and Arab-Israeli diplomacy, 1977-1979 -- Abdul enterprises: Arab petrodollars in the United States, 1974-1981 -- The center cannot hold: Americans, Arabs, and the wider Middle East, 1979-1980.

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