Lynch, among the most prominent American political scientists working on the Middle East, offers a furious critique of U.S. foreign policy in the region since the end of the Cold War. He argues that the heady ambitions of the unipolar moment permitted American policymakers, Democrats and Republicans alike, to pursue the imposition of a U.S.-centric order without the resolution of the central conflict in the region—that between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Indeed, he suggests that the