Beschreibung:
This book examines Western foreign policy towards the Middle East, and the extent to which the promotion of democracy has been in conflict with, or supported by, other goals (geo-strategic, economic, and cultural) in the policies of the major actors towards the Middle East. Does the Arab Spring provide a new opening for cooperation with the region? Contributions are offered by scholars with research interests in Middle Eastern politics, and by those analysing the policies and interests of external actors.
1. Introduction: Rethinking Western Foreign Policy and the Middle East 2. In the eye of the storm: Ambassador James Richards' mission to Iraq in April 1957 3. 'A good investment?' State sponsorship of terrorism as an instrument of Iraqi foreign policy (1979-1991) 4. Changing Turkish foreign policy towards Iraq: new tools of engagement 5. 'I'm glad I'm not a Saudi woman': the First Gulf War and US encounters with Saudi gender relations 6. The EU and the Gulf monarchies: normative power Europe in search of a strategy for engagement 7. Somalia versus Captain 'Hook': assessing the EU's security actorness in countering piracy off the Horn of Africa