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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784487703321

Titolo

Crescent of crisis [[electronic resource] ] : U.S.-European strategy for the greater Middle East / / editors, Ivo Daalder, Nicole Gnesotto, and Philip Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2005

ISBN

1-280-81272-9

9786610812721

0-8157-1687-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DaalderIvo H

GnesottoNicole

GordonPhilip H. <1962->

Disciplina

327.560182/1

Soggetti

International relations

Middle East Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations Middle East

Middle East Foreign relations Europe

Europe Foreign relations Middle East

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Finding a shared approach to the crescent of crisis / Ivo H. Daalder, Nicole Gnesotto, and Philip H. Gordon -- A multilateral approach to Iran / Kenneth M. Pollack -- The Iranian nuclear crisis / Bruno Tertrais -- Israel-Palestine : U.S. strategy for resolving the Israel-Palestinian conflict / Martin Indyk -- Putting the Israel-Palestinian peace process back on track / Yezid Sayigh -- Syria and Lebanon : different roads to Damascus / Flynt Leverett -- Promoting democracy and human rights in Lebanon and Syria / Eva Goes and Reinoud Leenders -- Iraq: from democratization to governance / James Dobbins -- Reconstituting the Iraqi state: a European perspective / Toby Dodge -- Afghanistan : proposals for improved stability in Afghanistan / Barnett Rubin -- Afghanistan : elements of an Atlantic nation-building strategy / Michael Schmunk -- Pakistan and the crescent of crisis / -- Stephen P. Cohen -- The case of Pakistan : a strategy for Europe / Jean-Luc Racine



-- A common U.S.-European strategy on the crescent of crisis / Ivo H. Daalder, Nicole Gnesotto, and Philip H. Gordon.

America, Europe, and the crescent of crisis / Ivo Daalder, Nicole Gnesotto, and Philip Gordon -- A common approach to Iran / Kenneth M. Pollack -- The Iranian nuclear crisis / Bruno Tertrais -- Israel-Palestine : U.S. strategy for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Martin Indyk -- Putting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process back on track / Yezid Sayigh -- Syria and Lebanon : different roads to Damascus / Flynt Leverett -- Promoting democracy and human rights in Lebanon and Syria / Eva Goes and Reinoud Leenders -- Iraq: from democratization to governance / James Dobbins -- Trying to reconstitute the Iraqi state: a European perspective / Toby Dodge -- Afghanistan : proposals for improved stability in Afghanistan / Barnett R. Rubin -- Afghanistan : elements of transatlantic nation-building strategy / Michael Schmunk -- Pakistan and the crescent of crisis / Stephen P. Cohen -- The case of Pakistan : a strategy for Europe / Jean-Luc Racine -- A common U.S.-European strategy on the crescent of crisis / Ivo Daalder, Nicole Gnesotto, and Philip Gordon.

Sommario/riassunto

The greater Middle East is beset by a crescent of crisis-a region of urgent danger stretching from Pakistan to Afghanistan, through Iran and Iraq, all the way to the Syria/Lebanon question and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  The specific problems range from terrorism and nuclear proliferation to the rise of fundamentalism and a lack of democracy.  These crises pose perhaps the most pressing security challenges to Europe and the United States today.  Unfortunately, the U.S. and its allies across the Atlantic generally have approached them in separate ways, often resulting in tense transat