The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
A contested case that a lobby has bent US policy away from its own interest, and the fight it started.
Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt argue that a loose coalition of organisations and individuals has pushed American Middle East policy away from what they consider the national interest. The book grew from a paper that no American outlet would publish, and the argument over it has been at least as consequential as the argument in it.
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