What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East

by Fawaz A. Gerges

An ambitious revisionist history of the modern Middle East

What Really Went Wrong offers a fresh and incisive assessment of American foreign policy's impact on the history and politics of the modern Middle East. Looking at flashpoints in Iranian, Egyptian, Syrian, and Lebanese history, Fawaz A. Gerges shows how postwar U.S. leaders made a devil's pact with potentates, autocrats, and strongmen around the world. Washington sought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300259573
• ISBN13: 9780300259575
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages