Crescent of Crisis U.S.-European Strategy for the Greater Middle East

The greater Middle East is beset by a crescent of crisis-a region of urgent danger stretching from Pakistan and Afghanistan, through Iran and Iraq, all the way to the Syria/Lebanon question and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The specific problems range from terrorism and nuclear proliferation to the rise of fundamentalism and a lack of democracy, and they pose perhaps the most pressing security challenges to Europe and the United States today. Unfortunately, transatlantic cooperation has been the exception, not the rule. Clearly the time has come for greater coordination of strategy and action. Crescent of Crisis brings together several leading American and European experts to develop a common approach to the daunting problems in the region. Book jacket.