This book examines US State Department's Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle East hands, showing how their backgrounds and education differed crucially from that of their predecessors. This study focuses on these individuals' transformative role in US foreign relations from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.
This book examines US State Department's Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle East hands, showing how their backgrounds and education differed crucially from that of their predecessors. This study focuses on these individuals' transformative role in US foreign relations from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.
Teresa Fava Thomas is a professor of history at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: America's Middle East Area Experts 1. The Orientalists Fade Away 2. The Middle East Hands Emerge, or, Don't Worry Mother, Your Son Is in the ASTP 3. Landfall: Language Training at Beirut, 1946 4. Filling the Cold War Linguist Gap: The Middle East Area Program in Beirut 5. "The Departure of Kings, Old Men, and Christians": The Eisenhower Years 6. Quiet Diplomacy In Action: The Kennedy and Johnson Years 7. Kissinger's Arabesque: The Nixon And Ford Years Epilogue: Beirut Axioms: Lessons Learned by the Middle East Hands Appendix: Brief Biographies Bibliography Index
Introduction: America's Middle East Area Experts 1. The Orientalists Fade Away 2. The Middle East Hands Emerge, or, Don't Worry Mother, Your Son Is in the ASTP 3. Landfall: Language Training at Beirut, 1946 4. Filling the Cold War Linguist Gap: The Middle East Area Program in Beirut 5. "The Departure of Kings, Old Men, and Christians": The Eisenhower Years 6. Quiet Diplomacy In Action: The Kennedy and Johnson Years 7. Kissinger's Arabesque: The Nixon And Ford Years Epilogue: Beirut Axioms: Lessons Learned by the Middle East Hands Appendix: Brief Biographies Bibliography Index
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