Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East

Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East

by Rashid Khalidi
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East

Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East

by Rashid Khalidi

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Overview

Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the political and cultural history of the entire region as well as interviews and documents, Khalidi paints a chilling scenario of our present situation and yet offers a tangible alternative that can help us find the path to peace rather than Empire.

We all know that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Sadly, as Khalidi reveals with clarity and surety, America's leaders seem blindly committed to an ahistorical path of conflict, occupation, and colonial rule. Our current policies ignore rather than incorporate the lessons of experience. American troops in Iraq have seen first hand the consequences of U.S. led "democratization" in the region. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict seems intractable, and U.S. efforts in recent years have only inflamed the situation. The footprints America follows have led us into the same quagmire that swallowed our European forerunners. Peace and prosperity for the region are nowhere in sight.

This cogent and highly accessible book provides the historical and cultural perspective so vital to understanding our present situation and to finding and pursuing a more effective and just foreign policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807003145
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 07/01/2010
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Rashid Khalidi is the author of seven books about the Middle East, including Palestinian Identity, Brokers of Deceit, Resurrecting Empire, The Iron Cage, and Sowing Crisis. His writing on Middle Eastern history and politics has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and many journals. For his work on the Middle East, Professor Khalidi has received fellowships and grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. He is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University in New York and is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Perils of Ignoring Historyix
Chapter 1The Legacy of the Western Encounter with the Middle East1
Chapter 2America, the West, and Democracy in the Middle East37
Chapter 3The Middle East: Geostrategy and Oil74
Chapter 4The United States and Palestine118
Chapter 5Raising the Ghosts of Empire152
Notes177
Acknowledgments212
Index214
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