CONGRESS AND THE SHAPING OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Book ID/图书代码： 12070015B82370
English Summary/英文概要： The upside-down logic of US policy in the Middle East is one of the great foreign policy conundrums today precisely because it touches on so many different problematic areas. The March 2006 article by Walt and Meersheimer that appeared under the title The Israel Lobby in the London Review of Books, and the bestselling book that followed, attributed our pro-Israel policy to the power of the lobby itself.
Others, including Chomsky, have criticized this approach as overly simplistic.
Longtime Middle East watcher Professor Kirk Beattie seeks to arrive at a deeper understanding by looking closely at the inner workings of Congress. Beattie analyzes staffing, campaign funding, bipartisan alliances within the Senate and the House, and the agenda-driven allocation of foreign aid. He addresses the many internal and external pressures that impact such processes. His findings, based on interviews with members of Congress and their staff and years of research, are laid out in straight-talking prose that untangles the complexity of the issue.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 美国对于中东局势混乱的政策是当今外交政策中最为棘手的一个难题，因为它触及许多不同的问题领域。沃尔特和米尔谢米尔于2006年3月在《伦敦书评》中发表了一篇名为《以色列游说团》的文章，随后又出版了一本知名书籍，把亲以色列政策归功于游说团体的力量。
包括乔姆斯基在内的其他人士都评论这种方法太过简单了。
中东局势观测者，柯克•比蒂长期以来都试图通过密切关注国会的内部工作而对中东问题能又进一步的理解。彼特分析了人事情况、竞选经费、两党联盟、众议院和参议院以及议程安排决定的国外援助分配等问题。柯克分析了在此进程中颇具影响的内部和外部压力。他的发现是基于对国会成员和员工的采访以及多年的研究成果，非常直接地解开了中东问题的复杂构造。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况："Kirk Beattie’s Congress and the Shaping of the Middle East is a stunning achievement. His extensive in-depth interviews and careful empirical analysis offer a convincing portrait of how various special interest groups operate on Capitol Hill, and Beattie shows exactly why the influence of the ’Israel lobby’ is so persistent there. Anyone who wants to understand why US Middle East policy stumbles so often should read this thoughtful, compelling, and well-researched book.”
—Stephen Walt, coauthor of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
“Kirk Beattie is among the first to conduct systematic research on the role of the legislative branch in US foreign policy, and on the impact of the Israel lobbies. Specialists have theorized on this issue, but Beattie’s careful fieldwork delivers the goods.”
—Juan Cole, author of The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation Is Changing the Middle East and former president of the Middle East Studies Association
About the Author/作者介绍： 柯克•J•比蒂已著有两本关于埃及政治的书籍：《埃及奈塞尔时期》和《埃及赛达特时期》。柯克是赛蒙斯大学政治科学和国际关系学院的教授，专攻比较政治学、中东地区知识和西欧政治。比蒂曾在哈佛、威尔兹理、弗莱彻法律与外交学院和密歇根大学授课。他曾获得傅尔布莱特奖项、傅尔布莱特-汉斯奖项、美国埃及研究中心奖项、阿拉伯研究中心海外奖项。比蒂现居于布鲁克莱恩，马萨诸塞州和威斯康星州。
KIRK J. BEATTIE is the author of two books on Egyptian politics: Egypt During the Nasser Years and Egypt During the Sadat Years. A professor at Simmons College in the political science and international relations department, specializing in comparative politics with regional expertise in Middle East and West European politics, Beattie has taught at Harvard, Wellesley, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the University of Michigan. He is a recipient of a Fulbright grant, a Fulbright-Hays grant, an American Research Center in Egypt grant, and a Center for Arabic Study Abroad fellowship. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin.
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