Middle East Conflicts & Policies

The middle east has traditionally been a region of conflict between the Russian Empire and the dominant Western Empire, which was Great Britain until 1945, and the United States since then. This has been based on a western view that Russia was expanding southward towards warmer climates in search of additional resources. This policy was continued by the Soviet Union as the successor state to the Russian Empire.

U.S. - U.S.S.R. CONFLICTS IN THE MID-EAST:

The relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Middle East was governed for more than four decades, from the end of World War II to the end of the Reagan presidency, by the Cold War with all of the attendant assumptions, concepts, institutions and policies essential to "fight" the Cold War. American views of the Soviet Union and of the Soviet bloc, and the policy requirements deriving from that perspective, formed the core of United States foreign and security policy worldwide.

The Middle East is a region to which the superpowers attached great significance and in which they evidenced great interest. The United States and the Soviet Union became the major external powers of consequence in the Middle East in the period since the end of World War II but particularly since the mid1950s and the retirement of

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sincentives include the loss of political momentum that has been achieved with the moderate Arab regimes in the region; a setback in its improving relations with the United States and Western Europe; and the high probability of an increased United States military presence in the area, if not a direct U.S. military response to such aggression. Any such adventurism would incur great cost for little benefit. QUESTION 2: After years of wondering about it, the Secretary of State has asked you to explain to him the central issues of the ArabIsraeli conflict today and their origins. INTRODUCTION: The conflict between Jews and Arabs in the twentieth century is the story of the confrontation of Europe and the Middle East in microcosm. It is the story of a conflict between traditional and modern values, between enduring living patterns on the one hand and change on the other, between the old and the modern, between East and West. BACKGROUND: European capitalism in the early twentieth century was emerging from its most aggressive phase of colonial acquisitiveness. European colonial activity in Africa and the Middle East reached its peak in the late 1800s and the opening years of the twentieth century. The British were already heavily
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