The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover) (EXPANDED)
by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt (Authors)

Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (September 4, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374177724
ISBN-13: 978-0374177720

Editorial Reviews
Book Description.......The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of
the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard's John F.
Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial
articles in recent memory. Originally published in the London Review
of Books in March 2006, it provoked both howls of outrage and cheers
of gratitude for challenging what had been a taboo issue in America:
the impact of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy.
Now in a work of major importance, Mearsheimer and Walt deepen and
expand their argument and confront recent developments in Lebanon and
Iran. They describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic
support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this
support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral
grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political
influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that
actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction.
Mearsheimer and Walt provocatively contend that the lobby has a far-
reaching impact on America's posture throughout the Middle East-in
Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-and
the policies it has encouraged are in neither America's national
interest nor Israel's long-term interest. The lobby's influence also
affects America's relationship with important allies and increases
dangers that all states face from global jihadist terror.
Writing in The New York Review of Books, Michael Massing declared,
"Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington's 'The
Clash of Civilizations?' in 1993 has an academic essay detonated with
such force." The publication of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign
Policy is certain to widen the debate and to be one of the most talked-
about books of the year.

About the Author
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service
Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on
International Security Policy at the University of Chicago. He has
published several books, including The Tragedy of Great Power
Politics.
Stephen M. Walt is the Belfer Professor of International Affairs at
the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and
was academic dean of the Kennedy School from 2002 to 2006. He is the
author of Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy,
among other books.
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