Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Us versus Them: America and Islam in the Age of Terror -- CHAPTER ONE: Genesis: Containment and Cold War in the Muslim World -- CHAPTER TWO: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War: "Beyond Containment" in the Middle Eas…
Analyzes the reasons that the United States shifted its attention after 1989 from the containment of communism to a policy of combatting radical Islam, exploring the political and economic tensions that created a foreign policy fueled by Islamophobia. --Publisher's description.
Analyzes the reasons that the United States shifted its attention after 1989 from the containment of communism to a policy of combatting radical Islam, exploring the political and economic tensions that created a foreign policy fueled by Islamophobia. --Publisher's description.
In this important new book, Douglas Little explores the political and cultural turmoil that led U.S. policy makers to shift their attention from containing the "Red Threat" of international communism to combating the "Green Threat" of radical Islam after 1989. Little analyzes Am…
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