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Imperfect Strangers : Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s /

In Imperfect Strangers, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. In those years, Americans and Arabs came to know each other as never before. With Weste...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yaqub, Salim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.