Ebook: The pragmatic superpower: winning the Cold War in the Middle East

Prologue: American apogee -- The Iran Crisis of 1946 and the Cold War's first conflict -- The Palestine question -- America, Iran, and the coup -- The Suez War -- 1958: the year of the revolutions -- The Six-Day War -- From the Yom Kippur War to the Camp David Accords -- Iran revolts -- The Iran-Iraq War -- The Gulf War.;Two foreign policy experts reflect on the United States' former policies of diplomacy in the Middle East--particularly during the founding of Israel, the Suez War, and the Iranian revolution--and argue that similar strategies would help today.