Paradox of Power: The United States in Southwest Asia, 1973-1984

1986 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
John C. Campbell ◽  
Maya Chadda
2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 109-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Cutler

AbstractCentral Asia is only one of the core regional subsystems of international relations that constitute Central Eurasia. The others are Southwest Asia and South Asia. All three subsystems are mutually distinct and do not intersect. The years 1989-1994 saw the geopolitical enlargement of Southwest Asia into Greater Southwest Asia; 1995-2000, that of Central Asia into Greater Central Asia; and 2001-2006, that of South Asia into Greater South Asia. These "Greater" complements overlap, and their intersection is key to the future of international relations in Greater Central Asia and Central Eurasia as a whole. It is through their matrix that powers such as Russia and the United States (as well as China, India, Iran, Turkey) play out their search for influence in Central Asia proper.


Author(s):  
William O. Walker

This chapter charts the decline of the American Century in the mid-to-late 1960s. Ties with European allies were cordial, notably with West Germany. Also, U.S.-Soviet relations improved, as seen at the 1967 Glassboro summit meeting. Decline, however, overshadowed such gains. In the Middle East, black Africa, and Southwest Asia, the Johnson administration had trouble asserting leadership. And in the Americas, Washington often supported military regimes, thereby diminishing the chances for democracy. Also, Ho Chi Minh largely thwarted U.S. goals in Vietnam. The 1968 Tet Offensive, the gold crisis in March of that year, and reports by the Interagency Youth Committee on anti-American dissent around the world showed the eroding credibility of the United States and the American Century’s fading appeal.


Asian Survey ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan D. Pollack

Abstract U.S.-Asian relations in 2003 appeared on the cusp of major change. The Bush administration (preoccupied by far more pressing challenges in the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia) sought to deflect potential crises in Korea and the Taiwan Strait, while also hoping to tether regional states to the new American security agenda. Although nearly all Asian states voiced assent for U.S. efforts to counter international terrorism, this support often reflected practical realities, not a deeper congruence of interests with Washington's. The path ahead for the United States in Asia remained unsettled, with crises deferred rather than resolved.


2018 ◽  
pp. 182-234
Author(s):  
Tony Smith

This chapter addresses the rise of neo-Wilsonianism. The problem with neo-Wilsonianism is that it replaced the relatively amorphous thinking of liberal internationalism with a much “harder” ideology, one that gave its adherents a moral commitment to a more militant foreign policy based on social-science reasoning that represented a new argument in American liberal internationalism. Democratic peace theory, democratic transition theory, and the responsibility to protect in combination were a strong mixture, one with murderous consequences for the people in the Middle East and Southwest Asia as well as for American pretensions to hegemony in world politics. Neither human rights nor democratic government abroad was served by these imperialist adventures, nor was the national security of the United States in any way enhanced.


Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Carley ◽  
Stefanie A Jones ◽  
Eero Laine ◽  
Chris Alen Sula

This issue marks the tenth year of publishing Lateral. We reflect here on this milestone and highlight work in the current issue, including a new forum on Cultural Constructions of Race and Racism in the Middle East and North Africa / Southwest Asia and North Africa (MENA/SWANA) and a special section on Cripistemologies of Crisis: Emergent Knowledges for the Present. We discuss several of these pieces in relationship to ongoing violence in Israel and attacks in the United States against “critical race theory” and conclude with calls for open access scholarship.


2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Ibarra ◽  
Jacob Snelling ◽  
Kathleen Alexander ◽  
Ned Tisserat

Turkish filbert is a medium-sized tree native to southwest Asia and southeast Europe. It is well-adapted to urban settings, although its use as an ornamental in the United States has been limited. In 2010 and 2011, Turkish filberts at a site in Boulder, CO, exhibited leaf spotting, partial defoliation, and shoot dieback. Xanthomonas arboricola pv. corylina and Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae were consistently isolated from leaf spots whereas X. arboricola pv. corylina was the only bacterium isolated from blight shoots. This is the first report of X. arboricola pv. corylina on Turkish Filbert in Colorado. Accepted for publication 7 March 2012. Published 17 May 2012.


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