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Unexceptional - America's Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007 (Paperback)
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Unexceptional - America's Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007 (Paperback)
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Unexceptional: America's Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007
examines U.S. policy vis- DEGREES-vis the Persian Gulf since the
Second World War. It asserts that the American experience in this
strategic yet volatile region known for its plentiful oil and gas
can be best understood as an unexceptional imperial endeavor
similar in kind to that of the British, Ottoman, and other empires
in previous centuries. Since 1941, the U.S. empire in the Gulf has
achieved successes such as Operation Desert Storm and the invasion
of Iraq. Setbacks have included the Iranian Revolution and the
ongoing occupation of Iraq. Given these and many other events,
which this book spotlights, America's Gulf empire has undergone
repeated expansion and contraction_a typical imperial pattern. The
result has been a cycle of waxing and waning U.S. influence in a
critical region of the world. Until its occupation of Iraq, the
United States practiced informal empire in the Gulf rather than
colonialism. Currently, however, the formal empire established by
the United States in Iraq jeopardizes the overall American position
in the Gulf, which seemed unassailable in earl
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