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U.S. Foreign Policy and the Modern Middle East [multiple videos]

In July 2009, The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Wachman Center and American Institute for History Education hosted a 'History Institute for Teachers.'

The following lectures are available as videos:
  • U.S. Foreign Policy in the 20th Century, Walter McDougall


  • American Policy and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Harvey Sicherman


  • The US and Saudi Arabia Since the 1930s, David Ottaway


  • The US and Iran from Mossadegh to Khamenei, Shaul Bakhash


  • The U.S., Zionism, and Israel, Adam Garfinkle


  • The U.S. and Egypt Since the Suez Crisis, Steven A. Cook


  • The U.S. and Iraq: From the First Gulf War to the Present, Mary Habeck


  • The U.S. and Iraq: From the First Gulf War to the Present, Kenneth Pollack
Read entire article at Foreign Policy Research Institute