Introduction : how American Middle East policy is made / William B. Quandt
The US enters the Middle East
Americans and the Muslim world : first encounters / Robert J. Allison
The ironic legacy of the King-Crane Commission / James Gelvin
US foreign policy toward Iran during the Mussadiq era / Mark Gasiorowski
National security concerns in US policy toward Egypt, 1949-1956 / Peter Hahn
Cold War rivalries
The 1957 American-Syrian crisis : globalist policy in a regional reality / David W. Lesch
The United States and Nasserist pan-Arabism / Malik Mufti
The Soviet perception of the US threat / Georgiy Mirsky
The superpowers and the Cold War in the Middle East / Rashid Khalidi
Arab-Israeli war and peace
The 1967 Arab-Israeli war : US actions and Arab perceptions / Fawaz A. Gerges
The Golan negotiations : US-Syrian relations and the failure to achieve a comprehensive peace / Andrew Bowen
From Madrid and Oslo to Camp David : the United States and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1991-2001 / Jeremy Pressman
George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Robert Freedman
Part four. The Persian Gulf in US policy
The United States in the Persian Gulf : from twin pillars to dual containment / Gary Sick
The Iraq War of 2003 : why did the United states decide to invade? / Steve A. Yetiv
What went wrong in Iraq? / Ali R. Abootalebi
The United States and Saudi Arabia / Thomas Lippman
US-Middle Eastern relations after 9/11
Islamist perceptions of US policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Yasbeck-Haddad
Ideology and America's nuclear crisis with Iran / Mark L. Haas
The U.S.'s post-9/11 fight against Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State : a losing effort
In search of a change / Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
The push and pull of strategic cooperation : the US relationship with Turkey in the Middle East / Henri J. Barkey
The Arab uprisings from the US perspective / Mark L. Haas
Epilogue: the early years of the Trump administration's Middle East policy / David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas

The Middle East and the United States brings together scholars and policy experts to provide an empirical and balanced assessment of US policy in the Middle East from the end of WWI to the present. Carefully edited by David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas, this text provides a broad and authoritative understanding of US foreign policy in the Middle East. The sixth edition has been significantly revised throughout to include a new part structure and part introductions that provides students with greater context for understanding the history of US involvement in the Middle East. The five parts cover the watershed moments and major challenges the US faces in the Middle East, from the Cold War proxy wars and the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Gulf wars and the upheaval of the post-Arab uprisings era. Three new chapters-on the Golan negotiations, on US-Saudi relations, and on the US fight against al-Qa'ida and ISIS-make this the most current and comprehensive book on the United States' involvement in the Middle East