The Middle East in the American Quest for World Order. Ideas of Power, Economics, and Social Development in United States Foreign Policy, 1953-1961.

Abstract

This book offers a reappraisalof the American conception of a world order - beliefs and assumptions regarding potential international harmony - and its influence on American foreign policy during the precidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961.

The Middle East in the American Quest for World Order offers a reappraisal of the American conception of a world order - beliefs and assumptions regarding potential international harmony - and its influence on American foreign policy during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961.

Placed at the intersection of political history and the history of ideas - between ideas and political action - this study explores the idea of a world order as it can be discerned in the actual political decision-making of U. S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. It presents an account of a critical period in American foreign relations, and offers keys to understanding the American conception of a world order, which remains relevant to the present day.