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Unexceptional
America's Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007
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2008
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Unexceptional: America's Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007 examines U.S. policy vis-^-vis the Persian Gulf since the Second World War. It asserts that the American experience in this strategic yet volatile region known for its plentiful oil and gas can be best understood as an unexceptional imperial endeavor similar in kind to that of the British, Ottoman, and other empires in previous centuries. Since 1941, the U.S. empire in the Gulf has achieved successes such as Operation Desert Storm and the invasion of Iraq. Setbacks have included the Iranian Revolution and the ongoing occupation of Iraq. Given these and many other events, which this book spotlights, America's Gulf empire has undergone repeated expansion and contraction_a typical imperial pattern. The result has been a cycle of waxing and waning U.S. influence in a critical region of the world. Until its occupation of Iraq, the United States practiced informal empire in the Gulf rather than colonialism. Currently, however, the formal empire established by the United States in Iraq jeopardizes the overall American position in the Gulf, which seemed unassailable in early 2003.
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Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-0590-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3203-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
346
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1 Not So Innocents Abroad: America, the Persian Gulf, and Empire No access Pages 1 - 36
2 Initiation: 1941-47 No access Pages 37 - 66
3 Confrontations: 1948-58 No access Pages 67 - 98
4 Assists and Reformulations: 1959-72 No access Pages 99 - 128
5 Insults and Reorientations: 1973-89 No access Pages 129 - 164
6 Victory and Quarantine: 1990-2000 No access Pages 165 - 192
7 In Search of Monsters to Destroy: 2001-07 No access Pages 193 - 278
8 Conclusion: An Unexceptional Empire No access Pages 279 - 300
