US foreign policy in the Middle East : from American missionaries to the Islamic State / edited by Geoffrey F. Gresh, Tugrul Keskin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: US foreign policy in the Middle East / Geoffrey F. Gresh -- Part I. Historical cultural and economic interests -- From "heathen Turks" to "cruel Turks": changing American perception and foreign policy towards the Middle East / Ozlem Madi-Sisman and Cengiz Sisman -- How big tobacco used Islam and modernity to conquer Saudi Arabia / Sean Foley -- Part II. Cold War challenges -- How geography and ideology shaped US foreign policy during the Cold War / Nickolas A. Spencer -- The ties that bind: postwar US foreign policy toward Turkey / G�okser G�ok�cay -- American atomic policy and Hashemite Iraq, 1954-1958 / Elizabeth Bishop -- Part III. Balancing regional alliances -- Understanding the US-Israeli alliance / Jeremy Pressman -- The United States' strategic relationship with Iran and Turkey: implications for Cold War and post-Cold War order / Suleyman Elik -- American-Qatari partnership in the post-Gulf area: a mutually beneficial relationship / Fatma Asli Kelkitli -- US-Gulf cooperation council relations in the age of the Obama Doctrine / Michael McCall -- Part IV. Rapid political change and the spread of regional instability -- When partisanship captured strategy: American foreign policy and the War in Iraq / Russell A. Burgos -- The United States and political Islam: dealing with the Egyptian Muslim brothers in the Arab revolutions / Mohamed-Ali Adraoui -- Promoting or resisting change? The United States and the Egyptian Uprising (2011-2012) / Ahmed Ali Salem -- Set-up for failure: the Syria-United States relationship / Ethan Corbin -- The United States and Iran: the view of the hardline conservatives in the Islamic Republic / Hamad Albloshi -- Losing hearts and minds: the United States, ideocide, and the propaganda war against ISIS / Kelly Gleason -- An imperial design or necessity of political economy?: understanding the underpinnings of a Trump administration / Tugrul Keskin.

The dawn of the Cold War marked a new stage of complex U.S. foreign policy involvement in the Middle East. More recently, globalization and the region's ongoing conflicts and political violence have led to the U.S. being more politically, economically, and militarily enmeshed - for better or worse-throughout the region.0This book examines the emergence and development of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East from the early 1900s to the present. With contributions from some of the world's leading scholars, it takes a fresh, interdisciplinary, and insightful look into the many antecedents that led to current U.S. foreign policy. Exploring the historical challenges, regional alliances, rapid political change, economic interests, domestic politics, and other sources of regional instability, this volume comprises critical analysis from Iranian, Turkish, Israeli, American, and Arab perspectives to provide a comprehensive examination of the evolution and transformation of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. This volume is an important resource for scholars and students working in the fields of Political Science, Sociology, International Relations, Islamic, Turkish, Iranian, Arab, and Israeli Studies