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Controlling the Uncontrollable? - The Great Powers in the Middle East (Paperback)
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The Norwegian University of Science and Technology hosted a
conference on the Anglo-American Middle East in Trondheim 2 to 4
May 2005. A distinguished group of scholars accepted our
invitations and gracefully agreed to rewrite their lectures for
inclusion in this book. They also easily transcended the, perhaps,
narrow theme of the conference, making their papers a sophisticated
discussion, by and large, how the different great powers have, not
always successfully, tried to control the Middle East. Hence the
title of this book, "Controlling the Uncontrollable". Edward Ingram
compares with a grand sweep the British and the American imperial
experience in the Middle East, he notes that too many scholars
exaggerate the power of nineteenth-century Great Britain in order
to compare it with the present day 'US paramountcy'. Alan Milward
is on a different tack, explaining how the oil crisis and oil
embargo forced the European Common Market to take a new approach
towards the Arabs, in the process cutting loose from the American
embrace and laying the foundation for a common EU foreign policy.
In his article, Douglas Little deepens our understanding of his
concept American Orientalism - the tendency to dismiss Muslims as
backward, decadent and evil - ending his essay with a withering
criticism of George W Bush who has rejected the doctrine of
containment in favour of preventive war when invading Iraq,
needlessly creating the current imbroglio there. Peter Hahn
discusses American-Israeli relations in the period 1945-1961,
showing that Israeli and American officials were often at
loggerheads on the future of the Jewish state. Rounding off the
essays is Mary Ann Heiss' account of key episodes of American oil
policy since 1945. Even with the importance of oil, as Heiss
explains, the balance of power had by 1974 shifted in favour of the
oil producers; that had 'shrewdly divided the Atlantic Alliance,
pitting the Western Europeans against both the Americans and each
other'.
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