Published 1988
by U.S. G.P.O., For sale by the Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, U.S. G.P.O. in Washington .
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Other titles | US policy in the Persian Gulf. |
| Contributions | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East. |
| The Physical Object | |
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| Pagination | iii, 62 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 62 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL14658120M |
@article{osti_, title = {Arab - American relations in the Persian Gulf}, author = {Nakhleh, E A}, abstractNote = {The Saudi decision during the October War to combine oil and politics and to relate the flow of Saudi oil to American Middle Eastern policies marked a major deviation from a long-standing policy. This has resulted in a major re-thinking of U.S. interests and long-range. Get this from a library! U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf.. [Jeffrey Schloesser; United States. Department of State. Office of Public Communication. Editorial Division.]. Additional Physical Format: Online version: Armacost, Michael H. U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf and Kuwaiti reflagging. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of State. An impressive foreign-policy analysis of U.S. decision-making in the Persian Gulf War A well-researched and highly readable book. (Political Studies Review) Using the Persian Gulf crisis of as a case study, Steve Yetiv examines how important foreign policy decisions are made.5/5(2).
Never before has the Persian Gulf region assumed such importance to basic American interests. In the last half century, the Gulf has evolved from an area of peripheral significance to one where events in the region have a direct bearing on security of the U.S. homeland and on its economic prosperity. Saudi Arabian and other Gulf Arab nationals were involved in the events of September Scholars of international relations tend to prefer one model or another in explaining the foreign policy behavior of governments. Steve Yetiv, however, advocates an approach that applies five familiar models: rational actor, cognitive, domestic politics, groupthink, and bureaucratic politics/5(18). The Persian Gulf (Persian: خلیج فارس , romanized: Xalij-e Fârs, lit. 'Gulf of Fars') is a mediterranean sea in Western body of water is an extension of the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Oman) through the Strait of Hormuz and lies between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest. The Shatt al-Arab river delta forms the northwest nates: Coordinates: 26°N 52°E / 26°N 52°E. Militarization of the Middle East, The Persian Gulf excerpted from the book Tinderbox U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism by Stephen Zunes Common Courage Press, , paper p35 The Militarization of the Middle East.
Book Description. Robert J. Pauly, Jr examines the history of US foreign policy toward the Greater Middle East in general and focuses specifically on the fundamental economic, military and political causes of the Persian Gulf crisis. It is a harbinger of what is to come in U.S. foreign policy. The United States is leaving the Persian Gulf. Not this year or next, but there is no doubt that the United States is on its way : Steven A. Cook. Dalia Dassa Kaye is director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy and a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Before joining RAND, Kaye lived in The Netherlands where she served as a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow at the Dutch Foreign Ministry and taught at the University of Amsterdam. Persian Gulf Wars, two conflicts involving Iraq and U.S.-led coalitions in the late 20th and early 21st cent. The First Persian Gulf War, also known as the Gulf War, Jan.–Feb., , was an armed conflict between Iraq and a coalition of 39 nations including the United States, Britain, Egypt, France, and Saudi Arabia; 28 nations contributed troops.
