Browsing Theses and Dissertations by Subject "United States--Foreign relations--Middle East"

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Variables shaping U.S. Foreign policy in the Middle East in Post-WWII Period

Metrebian, Seza Z. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2003)

The United States has direct interests in the Middle East due to the region's strategic and economic importance in the world. Following the end of the World War II, with the newly acquired American supremacy in the Middle East, several principle concerns made the region crucial to the US¹. First, beginning in the 1950s there was a bipolar competition between the U.S. and the threat of confrontation in the Middle East. The US was threatened by the Soviet Union, a nuclear power, perceived as having expansionist goals, which, if not contained, would lead to serious consequences. Since World War ...
The war on terrorism and its implications in the Middle East : seeds of instability

Romero Reyes, Ramon Tonatiuh (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2006)

This thesis intends to demonstrate that the so-called 'War on Terrorism" is used by the United States as an instrument of its foreign policy to promote changes in the Middle East. The two main pillars of this strategy are: the promotion of democracy and the fight against terrorism. However, an assessment of the policy shows that it has failed. It has failed so far to control and/or eliminate terrorist groups and the Global Jihad. It has failed mainly because of the lack of a clear evidence to prove the fact that the promotion of democracy will help to control terrorism or to induce ...

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