Freedman, Lawrence

A choice of enemies: America conforonts the middle east/ Lawrence Freedman - London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008. - 601p.


Dramatis Personae ix;
Maps xix; Preface xxiii;

1 Choosing Enemies 1;
2 The First Wave 18;

PART ONE JIMMY CARTER;
3 Camp David 39;
4 Revolution in Iran 62;
5 Uprising in Afghanistan 84;

PART TWO RONALD REAGAN;
6 The Mujahideen 109;
7 In and Out of Beirut 122;
8 Iraq 150;
9 Iran-Contra 168;
10 The Tanker War 192;

PART THREE GEORGE H.W. BUSH;
11 Iraq Takes Kuwait 211;
12 Desert Storm 234;
13 Intifada 254;

PART FOUR WILLIAM CLINTON;
14 Dual Containment 275;
15 Return to Camp David 309;
16 Choosing America 341;

PART FIVE GEORGE W. BUSH;
17 The War on Terror 373;
18 Regime Change 397.
19 Insurgency
20 Suicides and assassinations
21 The main Enemy?
22 Friends and Enemies

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index



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United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East.
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-
Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States.

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