From the Book - Sixth edition.
Introduction : how American Middle East policy is made / William B. Quandt
The US enters the Middle East
Americans and the Muslim world : first encounters / Robert J. Allison
The ironic legacy of the King-Crane Commission / James Gelvin
US foreign policy toward Iran during the Mussadiq era / Mark Gasiorowski
National security concerns in US policy toward Egypt, 1949-1956 / Peter Hahn
The 1957 American-Syrian crisis : globalist policy in a regional reality / David W. Lesch
The United States and Nasserist pan-Arabism / Malik Mufti
The Soviet perception of the US threat / Georgiy Mirsky
The superpowers and the Cold War in the Middle East / Rashid Khalidi
Arab-Israeli war and peace
The 1967 Arab-Israeli war : US actions and Arab perceptions / Fawaz A. Gerges
The Golan negotiations : US-Syrian relations and the failure to achieve a comprehensive peace / Andrew Bowen
From Madrid and Oslo to Camp David : the United States and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1991-2001 / Jeremy Pressman
George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Robert Freedman
Part four. The Persian Gulf in US policy
The United States in the Persian Gulf : from twin pillars to dual containment / Gary Sick
The Iraq War of 2003 : why did the United states decide to invade? / Steve A. Yetiv
What went wrong in Iraq? / Ali R. Abootalebi
The United States and Saudi Arabia / Thomas Lippman
US-Middle Eastern relations after 9/11
Islamist perceptions of US policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Yasbeck-Haddad
Ideology and America's nuclear crisis with Iran / Mark L. Haas
The U.S.'s post-9/11 fight against Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State : a losing effort
In search of a change / Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
The push and pull of strategic cooperation : the US relationship with Turkey in the Middle East / Henri J. Barkey
The Arab uprisings from the US perspective / Mark L. Haas
Epilogue: the early years of the Trump administration's Middle East policy / David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas.
