The containment myth: US Middle East policy in theory and practice

Middle East Report

Volumn 28, Issue 208, 1998, Pages 10-11

  Hubbell, Stephen ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; GEOPOLITICS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; POLICY MAKING; POST-COLD WAR;

MIDDLE EAST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31344482662     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3013401     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Anthony Lake, "Confronting Backlash States," Foreign Affairs 73/2 (March/April 1994).
2. Richard F. Grimmet, Conventional Arms Transfers to the Third World, 1988-1995 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, US Library of Congress, 1996) p. 53.
3. Scott Peterson, "For Oil and Allies, US Offers a $50 Billion Solution," Christian Science Monitor, August 6, 1997,
4. and Tim Weiner, "Russia and France Gain on US Lead in Arms Sales, Study Says," The New York Times, August 4, 1998.
5. Scott Peterson, The New York Times, op. cit.,
6. and F. Gregory Gause, "Arms Supplies and Military Spending in the Gulf," Middle East Report 204 (July-September 1997).
7. Peterson, "For Oil and Allies."
8. See Michael Tanzer, "Oil and the Gulf Crisis," in Beyond the Storm: A Gulf War Reader, Phyllis Bennis and Michael Moushabeck, eds. (Northhampton, MA: Interlink, 1993).
9. Dana Priest, "US Goes Easy on Allies in Arms Control," The Washington Post, April 14, 1998.
10. Charles Hanley, "US-Saudi Web Thickens," Associated Press, April 13, 1997.
11. F. Gregory Gause, "The Illogic of Dual Containment," Foreign Affairs 73/2 (March/April 1994).
12. Lawrence G. Potter, "The Persian Gulf in Transition," Headline Series, Foreign Policy Association.
13. Geoffrey Aronson, "Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories," Foundation for Middle East Peace, 8/1, January/February 1998.
14. See A.F.K. Organski, The $36 Billion Bargain: Strategy and Politics in US Assistance to Israel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990).