Scripting Middle East Leaders

Jeffrey Michaels is Research Associate in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. Prior to this, he served as a Lecturer with the Defence Studies Department, and also as an intelligence officer attached to the US European Command and the Pentagon's Joint Staff.Lawrence Freedman is Vice-Principal and Professor of War Studies at King's College London. He has held research appointments at Nuffield College Oxford, IISS, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy, he was awarded the CBE and the KCMG (Knight Commander of St Michael and St George). In 2009, he served as a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War.

• 1. Introduction (Lawrence Freedman and Jeffrey Michaels) 2. Strategic Scripts (Lawrence Freedman) 3. Emotion and Threat Perception: New Frontiers of Research (Janice Gross Stein) 4. Hitler on the Nile? British and American Perceptions of the Nasser Regime, 1952-70 (Nigel Ashton)5. Seeing Sadat, Thinking Nasser (Dina Rezk) 6. Getting Khomeini Wrong - Perceptions and Misperceptions of Iran's Revolutionary Leadership (David Patrick Houghton) 7. Envisioning Arafat: Views from Washington from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush (William B. Quandt) 8. Waiting for the coup; Oriental Despotism, Saddam Hussein and Anglo-American policy, 1990-2003 (Toby Dodge) 9. British Intelligence and Gaddafi (Christopher Andrew) 10. Western Views of Osama bin Laden (Peter R. Neumann) 11. Desperately Seeking Mahmoud: Misreadings of (and Beyond) Ahmadinejad (William Scott Lucas) 12. Mubarak: The Embodiment of 'Moderate Arab' Leadership (Rosemary Hollis) 13. Conclusion

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