LEADER 04125nam 2200589 450 001 9910808806703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0635-7 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501706356 035 $a(CKB)3710000000830236 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4648708 035 $a(OCoLC)957465393 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse54722 035 $a(DE-B1597)496588 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501706356 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4648708 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11249672 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL951865 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000830236 100 $a20160906h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImperfect strangers $eAmericans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East relations in the 1970s /$fSalim Yaqub 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (464 pages) 225 1 $aUnited States in the World 311 $a1-5017-0688-8 311 $a0-8014-4883-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Politics of Stalemate -- $t2. A Stirring at the Margins -- $t3. From Munich to Boulder -- $t4. Rumors of War-and War -- $t5. Scuttle Diplomacy -- $t6. Future Shock -- $t7. Fallen Cedar -- $t8. Camp David Retreat -- $t9. Abdul Enterprises -- $t10. The Center Cannot Hold -- $tEpilogue -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn Imperfect Strangers, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. In those years, Americans and Arabs came to know each other as never before. With Western Europe's imperial legacy fading in the Middle East, American commerce and investment spread throughout the Arab world. The United States strengthened its strategic ties to some Arab states, even as it drew closer to Israel. Maneuvering Moscow to the sidelines, Washington placed itself at the center of Arab-Israeli diplomacy. Meanwhile, the rise of international terrorism, the Arab oil embargo and related increases in the price of oil, and expanding immigration from the Middle East forced Americans to pay closer attention to the Arab world.Yaqub combines insights from diplomatic, political, cultural, and immigration history to chronicle the activities of a wide array of American and Arab actors-political leaders, diplomats, warriors, activists, scholars, businesspeople, novelists, and others. He shows that growing interdependence raised hopes for a broad political accommodation between the two societies. Yet a series of disruptions in the second half of the decade thwarted such prospects. Arabs recoiled from a U.S.-brokered peace process that fortified Israel's occupation of Arab land. Americans grew increasingly resentful of Arab oil pressures, attitudes dovetailing with broader anti-Muslim sentiments aroused by the Iranian hostage crisis. At the same time, elements of the U.S. intelligentsia became more respectful of Arab perspectives as a newly assertive Arab American community emerged into political life. These patterns left a contradictory legacy of estrangement and accommodation that continued in later decades and remains with us today. 410 0$aUnited States in the world. 606 $aArab-Israeli conflict$y1973-1993 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zMiddle East 607 $aMiddle East$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1974-1977 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1977-1981 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1969-1974 615 0$aArab-Israeli conflict 676 $a327.7305609/047 700 $aYaqub$b Salim$01623196 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808806703321 996 $aImperfect strangers$93957446 997 $aUNINA