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Imagining the Middle East
2011,2014
Overview
As its interests have become deeply tied to the Middle East, the
United States has long sought to develop a usable understanding of
the people, politics, and cultures of the region. In Imagining
the Middle East , Matthew Jacobs illuminates how Americans'
ideas and perspectives about the region have shaped, justified, and
sustained U.S. cultural, economic, military, and political
involvement there. Jacobs examines the ways in which an informal
network of academic, business, government, and media specialists
interpreted and shared their perceptions of the Middle East from
the end of World War I through the late 1960s. During that period,
Jacobs argues, members of this network imagined the Middle East as
a region defined by certain common characteristics--religion, mass
politics, underdevelopment, and an escalating
Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict--and as a place that might be
transformed through U.S. involvement. Thus, the ways in which
specialists and policymakers imagined the Middle East of the past
or present came to justify policies designed to create an imagined
Middle East of the future. Jacobs demonstrates that an analysis of
the intellectual roots of current politics and foreign policy is
critical to comprehending the styles of U.S. engagement with the
Middle East in a post-9/11 world.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press,University of North Carolina Press
Subject
ISBN
9780807834886, 0807834882, 1469619091, 9781469619095
