A Choice Of Enemies. America Confronts The Middle East

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Phoenix
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: Reprint

Description: 601 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "In recent decades the Middle East has proved to be one of the most troubling as well as important parts of the world. The war in Iraq, the standoff with Iran, the regular failures to find a diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the continuing danger posed by al Qaeda all testify to the intractability of the regions problems." Presidents from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush have grappled with the regions persistent and cross-cutting conflicts, and confronted fundamental questions about the use of force, the role of allies, and international law. In A Choice of Enemies, Lawrence Freedman shows how three events in 1979 set the terms for the later U.S. involvement in the Middle East: the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty; the Islamic revolution in Iran leading to the Shahs overthrow followed by the American embassy siege; and the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. Through a series of vivid accounts he describes the many dramas into which the U.S. was then drawn, including the withdrawal from Beirut, the Iran-Contra Affair, and 9/11.

ISBN: 9780753825884