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An examination of the reasons for potentially damaging differences in US and European attitudes, strategies and policies towards the Middle East since the mid-1990s. It assesses the prospects for improving transatlantic cooperation in the region and suggests approaches that may help to bring this about.

The definitive account of how regime change in the Middle East has proven so tempting to American policymakers for decades-and why it always seems to go wrong."Must reading-by someone who saw it first-hand-for all interested in America's foreign policy and its place in the world."-Robin Wright Since the end of World War II, the United States has set out to oust governments in the Middle East on an average of once per decade-in places as divers...

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Examining the reasons for the potentially damaging differences between the US and Europe with regards to the Middle East, this text assesses the prospects for improving transatlantic co-operation in the region, and suggests approaches that may help to bring this about.

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In August 1999 a forty-six-year-old sheep farmer name José Bové was arrested for dismantling the construction site of a new McDonald's restaurant in the south of France. A few months later Bové built on his fame by smuggling huge chunks of Roquefort cheese into Seattle, where he was among the leaders of the antiglobalization protests against the World Trade Organization summit. Bové's crusade against globalization helped provoke a debate both ...

Turkey has always been a crossroads: the point where East meets West, Europe meets Asia, and Christianity meets Islam. Turkey has also been a close and important American ally, but a series of converging political and strategic factors have now endangered its longstanding Western and democratic orientation.

Tracing the transformation of NATO in the aftermath of the Cold War, this volume assesses NATO's current accomplishments, continuing challenges and political pitfalls. It considers issues such as transatlantic relations, the debate over enlargement and the organization's new functions.

This timely volume assesses NATO's current accomplishments, continuing challenges, and potential pitfalls. Leading international scholars and policymakers explore three key themes influencing NATO's future: transatlantic relations, the debate over enlargement, and the organization's new functions. Weighing the fate of an alliance poised for renewal or decline, the contributors offer informed analysis and discussion of an organization that has ...