Abel's Course Pack Spring 2008

Government 312L: Clement M. Henry

 

Table of Contents: The US and the Middle East

 

1) Christopher M. Blanchard, "Al Qaeda: Statements and Evolving Ideology," Congressional Research Service, updated June 20, 2005.

 

2) Patrick J. Buchanan, "Whose War?" The American Conservative, March 24, 2003.

 

3) Mark Danner, "Iraq: The War of the Imagination," New York Review of Books, Dec. 21, 2006

 

4) Paul Findley, They Dare Speak to Speak Out (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1985) pp. 25-49, 165-179 (or 3rd ed. Pb. 2003, pp. 27-50, 187-208)

 

5) Louis Fisher, Expansion of the President's War Power, in Betty Glad and Chris J. Dolan, eds., Striking First (Palgrave, 2004), pp. 123-138.

 

6) Michael Genovese, "George Bush and Presidential Leadership: The un-hidden Hand," in Betty Glad and Chris J. Dolan, eds., Striking First (Palgrave, 2004), pp. 141-138

 

7) Richard Haass, "The New Middle East, Middle East Journal, Nov-Dec. 2006

 

8) Robert Harris, "Pirates of the Mediterranean," New York Times, op.ed., Sept 30, 2006

 

9) Glenn P. Hastedt, American Foreign Policy, 5th ed (Prentice Hall, 2003), pp. 21, 244-258, 409-423

 

10) John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel Lobby," London Review of Books, 28:6 (23 March 2006)

 

11) Joe Nye Soft Power (New York: Public Affairs, 2004), pp. 1-32, 127-147

 

12) Jeffrey D. Sachs, "How Aid Can Work," New York Review of Books, Dec. 21, 2006

 

13) Jeffrey Toobin, "Killing Habeus Corpus," New Yorker, Dec 4, 2006, pp 46-54

 

14) Gareth Porter, "Israel Warned US Not to Invade Iraq after 9/11," IPS, Aug. 28, 2007

 

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