European-American Relations and the Middle East

<p>This book examines the evolution of European-American relations with the Middle East since 1945. </p><p>Placing the current transatlantic debates on the Middle East into a broader context this work analyses how why and to what extent European and US roles interests threat perceptions and policy attitudes in the region have changed relating to both the region as a whole and the two main issues analysed: Gulf Security and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. The contributors then go on to discuss the implications of these developments for Western policymaking. </p><p>The volume makes four key contributions. First it examines the subject matter from a truly transatlantic perspective with all chapters adopting a bi- or multilateral approach taking into account the views from both the US and individual European countries or the EC/EU collectively. Second the book takes a long-term view covering a series of crises and developments over the past six decades. Third it has a systematic structure with the predominantly chronological order of the chapters being geared towards depicting trends and evolutions with regard to the key themes of the book. Finally the book builds bridges between historians and political scientists/analysts as well as between experts of transatlantic relations and Middle East scholars.</p><p>This book will be of great interest to students of transatlantic relations the Middle East US foreign policy European politics international history and IR in general.</p><p><strong>Daniel Möckli</strong> is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) ETH Zurich. He is also the editor of CSS Analyses in Security Policy.</p><p><strong>Victor Mauer</strong> is Deputy Director and Head of Research of the Center for Security Studies (CSS) ETH Zurich and Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at ETH Zurich. </p>