Book Review Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy

Because of its importance and effectiveness, US Strategy in the Middle East has attracted regional and international actor’s attention. Challenges stemming from US regional priorities along with differences within the US political spectrum have promoted a variety of literature. A good part of that literature has dealt with US Middle East policy critically. Among those critical sources comes Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy. Scientific literature critical to US Middle East policy is more common in this region itself. However, books like Perilous Power, written based on aggregating regional and western views, in addition to explaining new dimensions of the subject, provide a comparative outlook, hence have a comparative value as well. Perilous Power is a serious effort to bring up a comprehensive critical discussion on the US Middle East policy. In this article, I sought to assess and review Perilous Power both in terms of its form and content, matching its main discussion with those present in the region.