Bøker av Nicholas Laham

This book argues that American policy in the Middle East underwent a transformation as a result of a long-forgotten political battle which occurred in 1981-the debate over President Ronald Reagan's decision to approve the sale of the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) to Saudi Arabia.

This insightful work explores one of the under-examined eras of US foreign policy toward the Palestinian question: the Reagan years

Bill Clinton's 1993-94 health care reform initiative was one of the most active and sustained presidential campaigns ever undertaken in support of a single social issue, and certainly the boldest attempt to establish national health insurance in the United States.

Analyzes the evolution of film and television comedy, defining five separate and distinct periods of this evolution and revealing how each period has been characterized by a dominant trend in film and television comedy.

The author of this book argues that Reagan's civil rights policy was determined not by any political desire the president may have had to play the race card, but rather by his own commitment to colorblind justice and limited government, two core principles of his conservative agenda.

The AWACS debate represents one of the most critical events in the history of American diplomacy. It locked the Reagan administration and opponents of the AWACS in a fierce battle over American policy in the Middle East. Nicholas Laham looks at the political lessons to be drawn from the debate.

He failed to press for much-needed reforms in legal immigration while he supported the establishment of a fraud-ridden employer sanctions regime, which had no discernible effect in achieving its goal of stemming the flow of illegal immigration.

Argues that the 1986 American bombing of Libya represented an act of desperation by then-president Ronald Reagan in order to salvage American credibility in the Arab world. This title asserts that the Libyan bombings served as a significant foreshadowing of the Iraq War.

Why is the United States the only advanced industrial democracy today without a national health insurance program?