Scripting Middle East leaders : the impact of leadership perceptions on US and UK foreign policy / edited by Lawrence Freedman and Jeffrey H. Michaels.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : strategies, stories and scripts / Lawrence Freedman -- Emotions and threat perception : new frontiers of research / Janice Gross Stein -- Strategic scripts and policymaking / Jeffrey H. Michaels -- Hitler on the Nile? : British and American perceptions of the Nasser regime, 1952-70 / Nigel Ashton -- Seeing Sadat, thinking Nasser : political and intelligence assessments of the transition / Dina Rezk -- Images of the Ayatollah / David Patrick Houghton -- Skewed perceptions : Yasir Arafat in the eyes of American officials, 1969-2004 / William B. Quandt -- Saddam Hussein and US foreign policy : diabolical enemy images, policy failure, and the administrations of Bush senior and junior / Toby Dodge -- Anglo-American perceptions of Osama bin Laden after 9/11 / Peter Neumann and Fernande Van Tets -- Reliable enemy? : Bashar al-Asad and the United States / David W. Lesch -- Mubarak : the embodiment of "moderate Arab leadership" / Rosemary Hollis -- British official perceptions of Muammar Gaddafi, 1969-2011 / Christopher Andrew -- The US and Iran : turning Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into a cipher / Scott Lucas.