Jacobs, Matthew F. <br/><br/>
Imagining the Middle East :  the building of an American foreign policy, 1918-1967 / 
Matthew F. Jacobs. 
 - Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,  c2011. 
 - xiii, 318 p. 
<br/><br/>The task -- falls to the area specialists : national interests, knowledge production, and the emergence of an informal network -- The all-pervading influence of the Muslim faith : the perils and promise of political Islam -- A new amalgam of interests, religion, propaganda, and mobs : interpretations of secular mass politics -- What modernization requires of the Arabs -- is their de-Arabization : imagining a transformed Middle East -- A profound and growing disturbance -- which may last for decades : the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the limits of the network. HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M09 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780807834886 0807834882 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islam and politics--Middle East.<br/>Arab-Israeli conflict.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.<br/>United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.<br/>Middle East--Foreign relations--20th century.<br/>United States--Foreign relations--20th century.<br/>Middle East--Politics and government--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS63  / J15 I 2011