Burton I. Kaufman. The Arab Middle East and the United States: Inter-Arab Rivalry and Superpower Diplomacy. (Twayne's International History Series.) New York: Twayne of Macmillan. 1996. Pp. xvii, 291. Cloth $26.95, paper $16.95

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Nearly nine years after a Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself ablaze in provincial Tunisia, a sense that the aspirations of the Arab Spring were always doomed to fail has set in among pundits and policymakers. The United States, and to a large extent the European Union, have all but given up on any pretense of democracy promotion in the region and have instead turned again to well-trodden policy repertoires emphasizing a realpolitik approach.


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