Germany and the Middle East: Past, Present, Future: World Powers and the Middle East

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The articles deal with diverse aspects of the changing, complex, and charged relationships of Germany with the Middle East, in general, and with certain of its states, in particular, since the 1830s until the end of the 20th century. Contents Preface Foreword Introduction: Exploited or Unexploited Potential?Germany and the Middle East: Past, Present, and Future Part One: Germany and the Middle East Until World War I From Moltke to Gallipoli: Strategies and Agonies in the Eastern Mediterranean Friedrich Wilhelm IV and Prussian Interests in the Middle East The Founding of German Protestant Institutions in Jerusalem during the Reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II Germany and Zionism, 1897-1918 Part Two: Germany and the Middle East After World War I Hitler’s Route to Baghdad? Some Aspects of German Oil Policy and Political Thinking on the Middle East in the 1930s and Early 1940s German Foreign Policy and the Middle East: In Quest of a Concept Germany’s Middle East Policy: The Dilemmas of a “Policy of Even-Handedness” (Politik der Ausgewogenheit) Germany, the Mediterranean, and die Middle East: Approaching the Region through Europe Views on the Sudan after Independence Based on Reports of the German Democratic Republic’s Embassy in Khartoum Part Three: Germany and the Middle East: Technology and Economy Goman Motivation, Concepts, and Activity in the Exploration and Development of the Cultural Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Palestine Technological Innovation in Palestine: The Role of the German Templers Meissner Pasha: German Railway Construction in the Ottoman Empire Part Four: Germany and Israel: Twentieth-Century Diplomacy The Middle East Policy of East Germany American Influence on the Federal Republic of Germany’s Israel Policy, 1951-1956 Like a Ball in the Field: Israel between the Two Germanies, 1949-1965 Communicating Interests across History: German-Israeli Security Cooperation List of Contributors General Index Index of Persons Index of Places