Product Description: The military side of the war on terrorism, says Adam Garfinkle, is a necessary but not sufficient aspect of the solution. Weapons of mass destruction are activated by ideas of mass destruction, and these ideas arise from complex historical and social factors...read more

Product Description: Adam Garfinkle convincingly demonstrates that the antiwar movement, even at its radical height, was of marginal value and at times actually proved counterproductive to stopping the Vietnam War."Garfinkle (Israel and Jordan in the Shadow of War), director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Middle East Council, convincingly challenges the commonly held view that the Vietnam antiwar movement played a major role in winding down the conflict in Southeast Asia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Demonstrating that the antiwar movement was of little value and even helped--inadvertently--to prolong the carnage of the Vietnam War, a critique sets a new standard for discussion of the movement and describes its continuing role in contemporary America. (view table of contents)

Looks at the common interests of Israel and Jordan, and traces their relationship during the last eighty years

Product Description: For more than forty years, the American government has struggled with the challenge of maintaining useful relations with a special breed of regime: one whose rulers profess a community of interests with the United States while they rule through authoritarian means...read more