TY - BOOK AU - Yaqub,Salim TI - Imperfect strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East relations in the 1970s T2 - The United States in the world SN - 9780801448836 AV - DS 63.2 .U5 Y373 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - 1973-1993 KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Middle East KW - 1969-1974 KW - 1974-1977 KW - 1977-1981 N1 - 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 ER -