All you need to know about The Bush II Years (2000-2008): the book is now available on Amazon
Volume I: Elites and Concepts
Volume II: Networks
Author: Hichem Karoui
ANTHEM PRESS – London- New York- Delhi
The Middle East as a U.S. Predicament, The Bush II years examines the policies undertaken with regards to the Middle East during the Bush II era. The monograph argues that, whilst politicians claim that a moral vision guides their policy-making, it is in fact material interests that motivate certain strategies. Not only are such interests prioritised over moral ideology, but they solely constitute the cause and effect of the Bush administration’s public policy. In particular, the production of energy sources, such as oil and natural gas, is of crucial significance to the US policy. In the light of this analysis, Karoui discusses the resistance to the projects of the Bush Administration.
The Middle East problems are here comprehensively analysed in direct connection to Money contributions in the U.S. electoral campaigns and U.S. enterprises particularly from Arab, Muslim, and Jewish communities. The author analyses the policies of the Middle East in the light of quantitative data from electoral campaigns and foreign investments, and links the decisions to the signification of these data and to networks of politicians and entrepreneurs. He highlights the process of foreign policy decision-making in its connection to the real needs and problems of domestic U.S. politics.
Karoui supports his argument by charting the history of the Middle East, and provides convincing evidence of a region constantly exploited for its strategic positioning and energy supplies. He shows how the policies carried out and attitude towards the Middle East of the Bush (II) Administration were an inevitable consequence of the action taken by previous administrations, and of the political situation. The struggle between Israel and the Arabs for supremacy in the Middle East, and the systematic alignment of its states, had increased the subsystem’s dependency and penetration and the militarization of its societies.
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