The USA and the Middle East Since World War 2 - by T G Fraser (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The Middle East has rarely been absent from the world's media since the end of World War 2. Next to East-West relations, its conflicts have provided the most intractable set of issues in international affairs. Inevitably, the United States became the major outside party. As the Arab-Israeli dispute came to dominate Middle East affairs, the Americans had to reconcile their wide-ranging strategic and economic interests with the domestic pressures to support Israel. This book analyses and illustrates the decisions reached in Washington and examines their impact on the region's quarrels.

From the Back Cover

Drawing on a wide variety of published and unpublished contemporary documents, T.G. Fraser analyzes the arguments for and against partition as they were presented by the main protagonists at the time. It looks at ways in which partition was seen as intellectual or as an ad hoc solution to rival national claims, how it was related to ethnic conflict, and how it was complicated by economic factors and patterns of population distribution.