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Book SynopsisThe volatility of Muslim and Middle Eastern politics has made these interrelated topics an overriding preoccupation of world and especially U.S. politics. Perhaps no region of the world has ever so dominated the American public discourse as the Middle East does today. As Daniel Pipes shows, this results mainly, but not exclusively, from the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the ensuing war on terrorism. Other sources of trouble include militant Islam, Muslims in the West, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iraq situation, relations with Saudi Arabia, the price of oil and gas, and U.S. policy toward all these issues. These are the central themes of the roughly one hundred essays in Daniel Pipes' Miniatures: Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics.As Pipes notes, the Islamist war against America preceded the events of 9/11. Nevertheless, response to the earlier attacks had been inconsistent and somewhat nonchalant. Pipes shows how the State Department's annual report on Patterns of Glob
Table of ContentsPart 1: War On Terrorism; 1: Chapter 1: Before 9/11; 2: Chapter 2: American Responses Post-9/11; 3: Chapter 3: Militant Islam Post-9/11; Part 2: Islam And Muslims; 4: Chapter 4: Writ Large; 5: Chapter 5: In The West; 6: Chapter 6: Presenting And Representing Islam In America Think Like A Muslim; Part 3: The Arab-Israeli And Other Conflicts; 7: Chapter 7: The Oslo Diplomacy; 8: Chapter 8: The Oslo War; 9: Chapter 9: Syria Vs. Israel; 10: Chapter 10: Iraq Vs. All; Part 4: American Views; 11: Chapter 11: Making U.S. Policy; 12: Chapter 12: The Academy Interprets
