The weaver's lost art / / Charles Hill

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817866703321
• Autore: Hill Charles
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8179-1766-7; 0-8179-1768-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (81 p.)
• Collana: Great Unraveling: The Remaking of the Middle East
• Disciplina: 327.73056
• Soggetti: Religion and international relations - United States; United States Foreign relations Middle East; Middle East Foreign relations United States; United States Foreign relations Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; The Weaver''s Lost Art; The Great Metaphor; "The Old State-Secret" and the Middle East; The Prince; The Unraveling; A "Failure to Realize" Decade; A Tale of Two Princes; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution''s Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Looking beneath the surface of strategy, policy, and daily operations, this book uses the analogy of weaving to review the United States' historical responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. Author Charles Hill shows why the United States must marshal all possible elements in the Middle East, and supporters from without, to defeat the enemies of order in the region-and why the U.S. must weave an actively engaged, omnidirectional involvement to support and interact with whatever faction, regime, sect, leader, or state that seeks to gain legitimacy as a good citizen in the