Reckoning with Reagan: America and Its President in the 1980s.

Gillon, Steven M.; Schaller, Michael

doi:10.2307/2080022

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“…This development officially changed the course of more than 25 years of a strategic partnership. After 444 days of captivity, a failed rescue operation, a change in US administration, much secret diplomacy and rumours about the role Ronald Regan's camp may have played in the prolongation of this unfortunate situation (Schaller, 1994, pp. 29–32), a deal was achieved, and the hostages returned home on January 21, 1981.…”

Section: Modes Of Us Reaction To Unwanted Shifts In the Middle East—a...mentioning

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Reckoning with ‘new’ Turkey: Modes of US reaction to unwanted policy shifts in the Middle East

Kontos,

Tziarras

2023

Digest Mid East Studies

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This article discusses the changing relations between the United States and Turkey in light of Turkey's contemporary foreign policy that often challenges American interests. More specifically, it adopts a comparative approach to examine the variables that determine the course of US reaction when unwanted policy shifts take place in the Middle East. To this end, apart from Turkey, the article examines two more cases: US relations with Egypt in the 1950s, and with Iran right before, during and after the 1979 revolution. The comparative analysis reveals that the case of contemporary Turkey has been more similar to the historical case of Egypt, which explains why Washington has been adopting (and is more likely to continue doing so) a “wait‐and‐see” approach vis‐à‐vis Ankara. However, domestic changes in Turkey, though not as abrupt and radical as in Iran, remain significant and may have a deeper impact on US–Turkish relations in the future.

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Section: Modes Of Us Reaction To Unwanted Shifts In the Middle East—a...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reckoning with ‘new’ Turkey: Modes of US reaction to unwanted policy shifts in the Middle East

Kontos,

Tziarras

2023

Digest Mid East Studies

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“…The report also illustrated the political appeal of connecting education to other sectors of American society, most particularly the economy (Lugg, 1996). At the time of the report's release, the U.S. was in the midst of one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression (Schaller, 1992), and there was great anxiety regarding our economic competitiveness with other nations. Comparisons were drawn between Japanese industrial performance and that of the U.S., with the U.S. looking increasingly weak.…”

Section: The Political Terrainmentioning

confidence: 99%