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_aThe absence of grand strategy : _bthe United States in the Persian Gulf 1972-2005/ _cSteve A. Yetiv. |
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_aBaltimore MD : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c2008 |
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520 | _aAnalyses American policy towards Iran and Iraq from the Nixon era to George W. Bush. Concludes that the U.S. did not have a grand strategy in place but rather was more likely to balance against prevailing regional threat. | ||
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_aUNITED STATES _xFOREIGN RELATIONS _xMIDDLE EAST |
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650 | _aIRAN IRAQ WAR, 1980-1988 | ||
650 | _aGULF WAR | ||
650 | _aIRAQ WAR, 2003- | ||
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