Selling Awacs to Saudi Arabia: The Reagan Administration and the Balancing of America's Competing Interests in the Middle East

by Nicholas Laham

The AWACS debate represents one of the most critical and controversial events in the history of American diplomacy and legislative politics. It locked the Reagan administration and opponents of the AWACS sale in a fierce and pitched battle over American policy in the most economically and strategically vital region in the world: the Middle East.

Accordingly, Laham finds there are at least five political lessons to be drawn from the debate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275975630
• ISBN13: 9780275975630
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.9"