TAILIEUCHUNG - THE ROAD AHEAD MIDDLE EAST POLICY IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S SECOND TERM

Confronting a terrorist threat that struck the American homeland on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush responded by laying out a bold foreign policy and national security strategy with few precedents in the modern record of American diplomacy. To deal with the threat of global terror, Bush did not explore a reconfiguration of the global balance of power, as, in very different ways, his father had at the end of the Cold War and Richard Nixon had in the early 1970s. Bush did not propose the creation of a new network of alliances, as Harry Truman did at the outset of the Cold War. Likewise, Bush did not call for the development of. | The Road Ahead Middle East Policy in the Bush Administration s Second Term Planning Papers from the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution Edited by Flynt Leverett with contributions by Martin Indyk Kenneth Pollack James Steinberg Shibley Telhami Tamara Cofman Wittes The Road Ahead Middle East Policy in the Bush Administration s Second Term Planning Papers from the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution Edited by Flynt Leverett with contributions by Martin Indyk Kenneth Pollack James Steinberg Shibley Telhami Tamara Cofman Wittes About Brookings The Brookings Institution is a private nonprofit organization devoted to research education and publication on important issues of domestic and foreign policy. Its principal purpose is to bring the highest quality research and analysis to bear on current and emerging policy problems. Interpretations or conclusions in Brookings publications should be understood to be solely those of the authors. Copyright 2005 THE BROOKiNgS institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue . Washington . 20036 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the Brookings Institution Press. The Road Ahead Middle East Policy in the Bush Administration s Second Term may be ordered from Brookings Institution Press 1775 Massachusetts Avenue . Washington . 20036 Tel. 1-800 275-1447 or 202 797-6258 Fax 202 797-2960 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data are available ISBN-13 978-0-8157-5205-9 ISBN-10 0-8157-5205-9 The paper used in this publication meets minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials ANSI . 9 8 7 6 5 4 3

• Triết học
• ACHIEVING MIDDLE
• EAST PEACE
• ENGAGING DAMASCUS
• TACKLING TEHRAN
• FIGHTING BINLADENISM
• REENGAGING RIYADH