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FOREIGN RELATIONS: Obama and the middle east

Austin Farwell Jacob Meyer. FOREIGN RELATIONS: Obama and the middle east. The Author. Fawaz A. Gerges Born in Beirut Lebanon. M.Sc. Earned at London School of Economics. Doctorate at Oxford University Has taught at Oxford, Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton.

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FOREIGN RELATIONS: Obama and the middle east

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  1. Austin Farwell Jacob Meyer FOREIGN RELATIONS: Obama and the middle east

  2. The Author • Fawaz A. Gerges • Born in Beirut Lebanon. • M.Sc. Earned at London School of Economics. • Doctorate at Oxford University • Has taught at Oxford, Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton. • Currently a professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science were he also serves as Director of the Middle East Centre. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00mt9mn http://www.jhubc.it/RIVISTA/SPRING2011/article11.cfm

  3. Chp. 1 Summary • This chapter is pretty dull. It just talks about how we were to the Middle east. • Because of the cold war, we wanted to have some control in the middle east. It would give us a foot hold near Russia and give us the oil it had as well.

  4. Chp. 2 Summary • Soon we started to see Iraq as a threat once the cold war ended. We figured if we got the government in Iraq to become a democracy it would not be a threat. We tried forcing it upon them, and we failed. • This chapter focused on the time Bush was president. • Bush believed that in order to change Iraq, he had too increase the troops and force Iraq into a democracy. Of course this did not work out for the best.

  5. Chapter 3 • Ch.3 tends to focus on Obama’s policies regarding the Middle East in General • Hands off approach • Lead by example http://brettzieglerphotography.com/blog/?category_name=assignments http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2012/0502/Obama-s-agreement-with-Karzai-in-Afghanistan-short-on-specifics-video

  6. Chapter 4 • Ch. 4 deals mostly with President Obama’s stance on the recent disputes between Palestine and Israel • Israel continues to build on Palestinian Soil • President Obama too weak on Israel? http://mondoweiss.net/2012/02/netanyahu-seeks-iran-conflict-extremist-reaction-to-knock-out-obama.html http://www.conservapedia.com/Mahmoud_Abbas

  7. Works Cited "Fawaz Gerges." Fawaz Gerges. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2012. <http://fgerges.net/>. Gerges, Fawaz A. "Chapters 1-4." Obama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment? New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. N. pag. Print.

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