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Who Shall Guard the Guardians Themselves?

An Analysis of U.S. Strategy in the Middle East Since 1945

Lorenza Rossi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

342 Seiten

1998
Lang, Peter Bern (Verlag)
978-3-906760-87-2 (ISBN)

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The history of modern strategy is to a remarkable extent the history of access to and denial of vital resources. Ever since the world oil centre has shifted to the Middle East, the United States has been seeking to ensure its influence in this region, first by means of economic, then diplomatic and finally military manoeuvring. The post-World War II recognition of the strategic significance of the Middle East and the increasing Western dependency on its oil translated into a foreign policy approach toward the area which prompted an increasing U.S. entanglement into Middle Eastern domestic affairs. The self-centred self-oriented U.S. foreign policy approach toward the Middle East called forth U.S. hegemony in this area. Besides, it compelled a number of regional and domestic accidents whose consequences are still determining the dynamic and power constellation in this area.

The Author: Lorenza Rossi was born 1964 in Lugano. From 1983 to 1991 she studied History of English Language and Literature, Arabic Language and Literature and Political Science at the University of Zurich. During her studies she spent a semester in Cairo. She graduated in 1991. In the aftermath of the Gulf War she worked as an Arabic interpreter for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Kuwait. In 1997 she took her Ph.D. degree at the University of Zurich. Since 1994 Lorenza Rossi has been a research assistant in Strategic Studies at the Swiss Military College at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.

Contents: What are origins and development of the American involvement in the Middle East? - How far did the U.S. diplomatic and military policies adopted and carried out after 1945 influence and determine the events in the Middle East? - What kind of relation does exist between U.S. national interests and the quest for dominance over the Persian Gulf oil?

Zusatzinfo	1 fig.
Verlagsort	Bern
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	3-906760-87-1 / 3906760871
ISBN-13	978-3-906760-87-2 / 9783906760872
Zustand	Neuware