Sowing Crisis by Rashid Khalidi
The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
The book traces U.S. involvement in the Middle East during the Cold War and argues that American policymakers—motivated by securing oil, maintaining Western dominance, and protecting Israel—systematically misread Arab nationalism as a Soviet threat and relied on covert operations, coups, and support for authoritarian allies. Those interventions produced long-term instability, anti-American resentment, and unintended consequences that helped shape later conflicts across the region. It offers a critical reevaluation of the Cold War narrative, insisting that many contemporary crises were sown by earlier U.S. policies rather than arising solely from internal regional dynamics.
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- Published
- 2009
- Nationality
- American
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- Pages
- 272 pages
- Original Language
- English
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