TY - BOOK AU - Halabi,Yakub TI - US foreign policy in the Middle East: from crises to change SN - 9780754675242 (alk. paper) U1 - 327.73056 PY - 2009/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Middle East N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-154) and index; Ideas matter -- Consolidation and learning by doing: US foreign policy in the Middle East, 1945-73 -- The oil embargo crisis in 1973-4 -- The Iranian revolution and US foreign policy in the Middle East between 1979 and 2001 -- September 11 and the War on Terror : the rise of neo-conservativism -- Back to the future : the second Iraq War and the United States democratization policy in the Middle East ER -