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Controlling the Uncontrollable?
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This collection of essays by a distinguished group of scholars based on lectures presented at a conference on the Anglo-American Middle East in Trondheim, Norway during May 2005 discusses how the different great powers have, not always successfully, tried to control the Middle East. Contributor Edward Ingram compares with a grand sweep the British and the American imperial experience in the Middle East. He notes that too many scholars exaggerate the power of 19th-century Great Britain in order to compare it with the present day 'US paramountcy.' Alan Milward is on a different tack, explaining how the oil crisis and oil embargo forced the European Common Market to take a new approach towards the Arabs, and in the process cutting loose from the American embrace and laying the foundation for a common EU foreign policy. Douglas Little deepens our understanding of his concept American Orientalism "the tendency to dismiss Muslims as backward, decadent and evil" ending his essay with
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