Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 20, 2016).
Contents
Front Cover; Praise for America's Continuing Misadventures in the Middle East; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Map; Introduction: Lessons from America's Continuing Misadventures in the Middle East; Part 1: The Role of the Israel-Palestine Conflict; Is Israel a Strategic Asset or Liability for the United States?; America's Faltering Search for Peace in the Middle East: Openings for Others?; Failed Interventions and What They Teach; Israel-Palestine: The Consequences of the Conflict; Hasbara and the Control of Narrative as an Element of Strategy; Grand Waffle in the Middle East.
Israel's Fraying Image and Its ImplicationsPart 2: After the Arab Uprisings: Regression and Anarchy; The Arab Reawakening and Its Strategic Implications; After Abbottabad: Islam and the West; The Mess in the Middle East; About Syria; The Collapse of Order in the Middle East; Part 3: The Middle East and the World Beyond It; The Challenge of Asia; Change without Progress in the Middle East; The United States, the Middle East, and China; Coping with Kaleidoscopic Change in the Middle East; The Middle East and China; Part 4: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy.
Paramountcy Lost: Challenges for American Diplomacy in a Competitive World OrderNobody's Century: The American Prospect in Post-Imperial Times; Obama's Foreign Policy and the Future of the Middle East; The Geopolitics of the Iran Nuclear Negotiations; Saudi Arabia and the Oil Price Collapse; The U.S. and Saudi Arabia: Marriage of Convenience on the Rocks?; Too Quick on the Draw: Militarism and the Malpractice of Diplomacy in America; Conclusion: Fixing the Mess in the Middle East; About the Author.