Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: US foreign policy in the Middle East / Geoffrey F. Gresh -- Part I. Historical cultural and economic interests -- From "heathen Turks" to "cruel Turks": changing American perception and foreign policy towards the Middle East / Ozlem Madi-Sisman and Cengiz Sisman -- How big tobacco used Islam and modernity to conquer Saudi Arabia / Sean Foley -- Part II. Cold War challenges -- How geography and ideology shaped US foreign policy during the Cold War / Nickolas A. Spencer -- The ties that bind: postwar US foreign policy toward Turkey / Gökser Gökçay -- American atomic policy and Hashemite Iraq, 1954-1958 / Elizabeth Bishop -- Part III. Balancing regional alliances -- Understanding the US-Israeli alliance / Jeremy Pressman -- The United States' strategic relationship with Iran and Turkey: implications for Cold War and post-Cold War order / Suleyman Elik -- American-Qatari partnership in the post-Gulf area: a mutually beneficial relationship / Fatma Asli Kelkitli -- US-Gulf cooperation council relations in the age of the Obama Doctrine / Michael McCall -- Part IV. Rapid political change and the spread of regional instability -- When partisanship captured strategy: American foreign policy and the War in Iraq / Russell A. Burgos -- The United States and political Islam: dealing with the Egyptian Muslim brothers in the Arab revolutions / Mohamed-Ali Adraoui -- Promoting or resisting change? The United States and the Egyptian Uprising (2011-2012) / Ahmed Ali Salem -- Set-up for failure: the Syria-United States relationship / Ethan Corbin -- The United States and Iran: the view of the hardline conservatives in the Islamic Republic / Hamad Albloshi -- Losing hearts and minds: the United States, ideocide, and the propaganda war against ISIS / Kelly Gleason -- An imperial design or necessity of political economy?: understanding the underpinnings of a Trump administration / Tugrul Keskin.