COVER

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

PART 1: HISTORY AND CONTEXT

1 - FROM EMPIRE TONATION-STATE: THE GENESIS OF MODERNITY’S 500 YEARS

THE WORLD-SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK

LAND WORLD-EMPIRES

ANCIENT ROME: REPUBLIC, EMPIRE

WESTERN EUROPE AND THE MODERN INTERSTATE SYSTEM

2 - THE RISE OF AMERICAN POWER: FROM COLUMBUS TO THE COLD WAR

INDEPENDENCE: “THE PROPER GUARDIANS OF THEPUBLIC WEAL”

CONTINENTAL EXPANSION: “OUR PROPER DOMINION”

GLOBALIZATION: “A CLEAR PREPONDERANCE OF INTEREST”

PART 2: DOMINION AND SUPREMACY

3 - THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND ISRAEL: A SUMMARY

FROM IMPERIAL TO PERIPHERAL

THE MANDATE AND THE ARAB STATES

PALESTINE AND THE JEWISH STATE

4 - THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL: THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP FROM TRUMAN TO REAGAN

OIL AND DOMINOES: THE UNITED STATES ENTERS THE MIDDLE EAST

THE ORIGIN OF US–ISRAELI RELATIONS, 1947–56

THE FORGING OF THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, 1957–67

CONSOLIDATION: NIXON–KISSINGER, 1969–74

DIPLOMACY, CRISIS, AND CONTINUITY: JIMMY CARTER, 1977–81

FORMALIZATION: RONALD REAGAN, 1981–89

CONCLUSION

PART 3: DIPLOMACY AND INFLUENCE

5 - THE PEACE PROCESS: ANATOMY OF AN INJUSTICE

PROLOGUE

THE 1967 PHASE, 1967–78

INTERLUDE: THE REAGAN YEARS

THE MADRID–OSLO PHASE, 1989–2001

CONCLUSION: THE POST-TABA PHASE, 2002–07

6 - THE ISRAEL LOBBY: ANATOMY OF A CONTROVERSY

THE LOBBY

THE EARLY DEBATE

MEARSHEIMER AND WALT

THE CURRENT DEBATE: REACTION TO MEARSHEIMER AND WALT

EVALUATION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS

CONCLUSION

NOTES

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