Congress And The Shaping Of The Middle East
by Kirk Beattie /
2015 / English / Kindle, EPUB
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How does one explain US Middle East policy? When Stephen
Walt and John Mearsheimer wrote their bestselling
book
How does one explain US Middle East policy? When Stephen
Walt and John Mearsheimer wrote their bestselling
bookThe Israel Lobby
The Israel Lobby, they attributed our
pro-Israel policy to the power of the lobby itself. Others have
criticized this approach as overly simplistic. Longtime Middle
East watcher Professor Kirk Beattie provides a profound
assessment of Congress’s role by examining the vetting of
congressional candidates, campaign financing, congressional
staffing, bipartisan alliances within the Senate and the House,
and the agenda-driven allocation of foreign aid and policymaking.
He addresses the many internal and external pressures that impact
such processes. His findings, based on roughly two hundred
interviews with congressional staffers, lobbyists, members
of Congress, and foreign embassy officials across years of
research, untangle the issue to show us
how Congress really works.
, they attributed our
pro-Israel policy to the power of the lobby itself. Others have
criticized this approach as overly simplistic. Longtime Middle
East watcher Professor Kirk Beattie provides a profound
assessment of Congress’s role by examining the vetting of
congressional candidates, campaign financing, congressional
staffing, bipartisan alliances within the Senate and the House,
and the agenda-driven allocation of foreign aid and policymaking.
He addresses the many internal and external pressures that impact
such processes. His findings, based on roughly two hundred
interviews with congressional staffers, lobbyists, members
of Congress, and foreign embassy officials across years of
research, untangle the issue to show us
how Congress really works.