The Summer of Living Dangerously: Robert C. McFarlane and the Breakdown of Reagan’s Lebanon Policy

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Journal of the Middle East and Africa Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI:10.1080/21520844.2023.2234773

Hicham Bou Nassif

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ABSTRACT This article reconsiders the US Lebanon policy in the wake of the Lebanese-Israeli Agreement of May 17, 1983. After failing to convince Syrian President Hafiz al-Assad to accept the Lebanon-Israel May 17 Agreement and withdraw from Lebanon, US policymakers adopted a confrontational approach with Damascus. The American-Syrian duel over Lebanon escalated in the summer of 1983 and ended with Assad’s victory. The United States disengaged from Beirut, thus paving the way for Syrian control. I use untapped archival sources pertaining to the mission of Robert C. McFarlane, Ronald Reagan’s envoy to the Middle East, to shed a new light on these events.

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危险生活的夏天：罗伯特·C·麦克法兰与里根黎巴嫩政策的崩溃

摘要本文对1983年5月17日《黎巴嫩-以色列协定》之后美国对黎巴嫩的政策进行了反思。在未能说服叙利亚总统哈菲兹·阿萨德接受黎巴嫩-以色列5月17日协议并撤出黎巴嫩后，美国决策者采取了与大马士革对抗的方式。1983年夏天，美国和叙利亚在黎巴嫩问题上的对决升级，最终以阿萨德的胜利告终。美国脱离了贝鲁特，从而为叙利亚的控制铺平了道路。我利用与罗纳德·里根的中东特使罗伯特·C·麦克法兰的任务有关的未开发的档案来源，对这些事件进行了新的了解。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, the flagship publication of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to include both the entire continent of Africa and the Middle East within its purview—exploring the historic social, economic, and political links between these two regions, as well as the modern challenges they face. Interdisciplinary in its nature, The Journal of the Middle East and Africa approaches the regions from the perspectives of Middle Eastern and African studies as well as anthropology, economics, history, international law, political science, religion, security studies, women''s studies, and other disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. It seeks to promote new research to understand better the past and chart more clearly the future of scholarship on the regions. The histories, cultures, and peoples of the Middle East and Africa long have shared important commonalities. The traces of these linkages in current events as well as contemporary scholarly and popular discourse reminds us of how these two geopolitical spaces historically have been—and remain—very much connected to each other and central to world history. Now more than ever, there is an acute need for quality scholarship and a deeper understanding of the Middle East and Africa, both historically and as contemporary realities. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa seeks to provide such understanding and stimulate further intellectual debate about them for the betterment of all.