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03747aam a2200373 i 4500 001 74A2F3B0B85D11E6BDBAC4DDDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161202010137 008 160324t20162016maua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016013981 020 $a 0674971574 020 $a 9780674971578 035 $a (OCoLC)946579952 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d HLS $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a DS61.8 $b .K47 2016 082 00 $a 956.0071/173 $2 23 100 1 $a Khalil, Osamah F., $d 1971- $e author. 245 10 $a America's dream palace : $b Middle East expertise and the rise of the national security state / $c Osamah F. Khalil. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a x, 426 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a America's Dream Palace examines the relationship between U.S. foreign policy and the origins and expansion of Middle East studies and expertise from World War I to the Global War on Terror. It analyzes the transition from the private knowledge of American missionaries and Orientalist scholars adapted for government use in the First and Second World Wars to the privatized knowledge of think tanks with close ties to the U.S. national security establishment in the late and post-Cold War periods. The book draws on extensive research at national, university, and foundation archives in the United States, the United Kingdom, Lebanon, and Egypt. It demonstrates that the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958 ultimately led to the growth and diversification of Middle East studies. An unintended consequence of this expansion was strained relations between academia and the government, which contributed to, and was compounded by, decreased federal funding for area studies. By the 1980s, these factors led to a perceived decline in the field, while think tanks garnered increased attention and influence. The author contrasts the post-September 11 expansion of the national security bureaucracy and the predominance of think tanks with attempts to marginalize university-based Middle East studies centers and scholars.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The crossroads of Empire -- Private knowledge: American missionaries, the inquiry, and the First World War in the Middle East, 1917-1922 -- Wartime expertise: the Office of Strategic Services, the Army Specialized Training Program, and World War II in the Middle East, 1940-1945 -- A time of national emergency: the national security establishment, academic institutions, and the origins of Middle East studies, 1947-1957 -- America's sheet anchors: creating Cold War universities in the Middle East, 1922-1962 -- (In)Visible government: the National Defense Education Act and the establishment of Middle East studies, 1950-1967 -- Modernizing the Middle East: constructing traditional society and expertise, 1950-1973 -- Privatizing knowledge: think tanks, Middle East expertise, and the decline of Area Studies, 1973-1988 -- Empire and its limitations: neoconservatism, the Bush Doctrine, and the Global War on Terror, 1989-2009 -- Epilogue: America and the Arab Spring. 651 0 $a Middle East $x Study and teaching (Higher) $z United States. 650 0 $a National security $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Middle East. 651 0 $a Middle East $x Foreign relations $z United States. 650 0 $a Research institutes $z United States. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170503023629.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=74A2F3B0B85D11E6BDBAC4DDDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search