FOOTPRINTS OF THE U.S. IN THE MIDDLE EAST (AND NORTH AFRICA)

The United States has been heavily involved in North Africa and the Middle East for over half a century. The countries with which we have been most engaged include Egypt, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq. The overview course will allow participants to judge how World War II, oil, the Cold War, support for Israel, and the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/01 have shaped our actions in North Africa and the Middle East.

Participants will have handouts, and probably a text, prepared by the instructor and will be invited to view DVD’s related to the topics.

Class is limited to 40 members.

TONY NEIDECKER lived in France for the first thirteen years of his life.  After graduating from the Harvard Business School in 1949 he worked in financial positions in an Oregon bank, in an Iowan electronics company, with the John Deere Company in France, and for the last twenty years of his career in various international capacities with Chase Manhattan Bank.  On one assignment he spent four years in Saudi Arabia.  Since his retirement, he has been involved with Historic Windsor, Volunteers in Action, Windsor County Partners, and is on the Board of Lebanon College.  From 1990 – 1993, as part of a program of the Transnational Institute of Norwich, VT, he visited Russia annually to teach courses in finance.