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Now updated with a new chapter on the current climate, Myths, Illusions, and Peace addresses why the United States has consistently failed to achieve its strategic goals in the Middle East.
Penguin
June 2010
On Sale: May 25, 2010
384 pages
ISBN: 0143117696
EAN: 9780143117698
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
Two experts debunk misconceptions about the Middle East and
set clear-eyed policies for the future Why has the United States consistently failed to achieve its
strategic goals in the Middle East? According to Dennis Ross
and David Makovsky, two of America's leading experts on the
region, it is because we have been laboring under false
assumptions, or mythologies, about the nature and motivation
of Middle East countries and their leaders. In "Myths,
Illusions, and Peace," the authors debunk these damaging
fallacies, held by both the right and the left, and present
a concise and far-reaching set of principles that will help
America set an effective course of action in the region. Among the myths that the authors show to be false and even
dangerous is the idea that Israeli-Palestinian peace is the
key to solving all the Middle East's problems; that regime
change is a prerequisite for peace and democracy; and that
Iran's leadership is immune from diplomatic and economic
pressure. These and other historic misunderstandings have
generated years' worth of failed policies and crippled
America's ability to make productive decisions in this
volatile part of the world, a region that will hold the key
to our security in the twenty-first century. Ross and Makovsky offer a critical rethinking of American
perceptions at a time of great import and change.
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