TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cook,Steven A.
TI  - The end of ambition: America's past, present, and future in the Middle East 
T2  - Council on Foreign Relations books
SN  - 9780197578575 (hardback)
AV  - 439 D S63.2 C771e 2024
U1  - 327.73056 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Medio Oriente
KW  - Relaciones exteriores
KW  - Estados Unidos
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Original sins -- Prime directive -- Unbreakable bonds -- The great transformation -- The aborted revolution -- Retrenching & hedging -- Back to the future
N2  - "In The End of Ambition, Steven A. Cook argues that while these analysts are rightly concerned that engagement drains US resources and distorts its domestic politics, the broader impulse to disengage tends to neglect important lessons from the past. Moreover, advocates of pulling back overlook the potential risks of withdrawal. Covering the relationship between the US and the Middle East since the end of WWII, Cook makes the bold claim that despite setbacks and moral costs, the United States has been overwhelmingly successful in protecting its core national interests in the Middle East. Conversely, overly ambitious policies to remake the region and leverage US power not only ended in failure, but rendered the region unstable in new and largely misunderstood ways." -- Publisher's description
ER  -