Between clash and co-optation: US foreign policy and the specter of Islam

Middle East Report

Volumn 28, Issue 208, 1998, Pages 26-29

  Niva, Steve ^a,b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MERIP's Board ^*

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EID: 27644457471     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3013406     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Edward Djerejian, "The U.S. and the Middle East in a Changing World; Address at Meridian House International," U.S. Department of State Dispatch, June 2, 1992.
2. For a detailed rebuttal of this documentary see "A Point-by-Point Analysis of 'Jihad in America'," published by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Washington DC.
3. Charles Krauthammer, Interview, Middle East Quarterly, December 1994, p. 76.
4. "The Great Satan Wins One," The Wall Street Journal, June 25, 1993, p. A10.
5. See Daniel Pipes, "There Are No Moderates: Dealing with Fundamentalist Islam," The National Interest, Fall 1995.
6. Peter Rodman, "Policy Brief: Co-opt or Confront Fundamentalist Islam?" Middle East Quarterly, December 1994, p. 64.
7. Pipes, pp. 55-56.
8. These authoritarian outcomes are well detailed by such critics of US foreign policy as Noam Chomsky, Gabriel Kolko and William Appleman Williams, among others. See Noam Chomsky, Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There (New York: Pantheon Books, 1982);
9. Gabriel Kolko, Confronting the Third World: United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1980 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1988);
10. William Appleman Williams, Empire as a Way of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980).
11. See Robert Pelletreau, Jr., "Not Every Fundamentalist Is a Terrorist," Middle East Quarterly, September 1995;
12. and Gary Sick, "Dual Containment: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed?" Middle East Affairs Journal 3/3-4 (1997).
13. John Esposito, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992);
14. Graham E. Fuller and Ian O. Lesser, A Sense of Siege: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995).
15. Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History?" The National Interest, Summer 1989, p. 3.
16. This argument is drawn largely from William I. Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization and US Intervention, and Hegemony (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
17. See also Barry Gills, Joel Rocamorea and Richard Wilson, eds., Low Intensity Democracy: Political Power in the New World Order (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993).
18. This theme is discussed at length in Tom Young, "'A Project to be Realized': Global Liberalism and Contemporary Africa," Millennium: Journal of International Studies 24/3 (1995),
19. and in David Williams and Tom Young, "Governance, the World Bank and Liberal Theory," Political Studies 42/1 (1994).
20. Talal Asad, "Religion and Politics: An Introduction," Social Research 59/1 (1992).