The Cold War And The Middle East

Author : Yezid Sayigh,Avi Shlaim
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191571510

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The Cold War has been researched in minute detail and written about at great length but it remains one of the most elusive and enigmatic conflicts of modern times. With the ending of the Cold War, it is now possible to review the entire post-war period, to examine the Cold War as history. The Middle East occupies a special place in the history of the Cold War. It was critical to its birth, its life and its demise. In the aftermath of the Second World War, it became one of the major theatres of the Cold War on account of its strategic importance and its oil resources. The key to the international politics of the Middle East during the Cold War era is the relationship between external powers and local powers. Most of the existing literature on the subject focuses on the policies of the Great Powers towards the local region. The Cold War and the Middle East redresses the balance by concentrating on the policies of the local actors. It looks at the politics of the region not just from the outside in but from the inside out. The contributors to this volume are leading scholars in the field whose interests combine International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies.

Author : Nigel J. Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134093694

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The Cold War in the Middle East by Nigel J. Ashton Pdf

This edited volume re-assesses the relationship between the United States, the Soviet Union and key regional players in waging and halting conflict in the Middle East between 1967 and 1973. These were pivotal years in the Arab-Israeli conflict, with the effects still very much in evidence today. In addition to addressing established debates, the book opens up new areas of controversy, in particular concerning the inter-war years and the so-called ‘War of Attrition’, and underlines the risks both Moscow and Washington were prepared to run in supporting their regional clients. The engagement of Soviet forces in the air defence of Egypt heightened the danger of escalation and made this one of the hottest regional conflicts of the Cold War era. Against this Cold War backdrop, the motives of both Israel and the Arab states in waging full-scale and lower-intensity conflict are illuminated. The overall goal of this work is to re-assess the relationship between the Cold War and regional conflict in shaping the events of this pivotal period in the Middle East. The Cold War in the Middle East will be of much interest to students of Cold War studies, Middle Eastern history, strategic studies and international history.

Author : Ray Takeyh,Steven Simon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393285567

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The Pragmatic Superpower: Winning the Cold War in the Middle East by Ray Takeyh,Steven Simon Pdf

A bold reexamination of U.S. influence in the Middle East during the Cold War. The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war, and the Syrian civil war—these contemporary conflicts have deep roots in the Middle East’s postwar emergence from colonialism. In The Pragmatic Superpower, foreign policy experts Ray Takeyh and Steven Simon reframe the legacy of U.S. involvement in the Arab world from 1945 to 1991 and shed new light on the makings of the contemporary Middle East. Cutting against conventional wisdom, the authors argue that, when an inexperienced Washington entered the turbulent world of Middle Eastern politics, it succeeded through hardheaded pragmatism—and secured its place as a global superpower. Eyes ever on its global conflict with the Soviet Union, America shrewdly navigated the rise of Arab nationalism, the founding of Israel, and seminal conflicts including the Suez War and the Iranian revolution. Takeyh and Simon reveal that America’s objectives in the region were often uncomplicated but hardly modest. Washington deployed adroit diplomacy to prevent Soviet infiltration of the region, preserve access to its considerable petroleum resources, and resolve the conflict between a Jewish homeland and the Arab states that opposed it. The Pragmatic Superpower provides fascinating insight into Washington’s maneuvers in a contest for global power and offers a unique reassessment of America’s cold war policies in a critical region of the world. Amid the chaotic conditions of the twenty-first century, Takeyh and Simon argue that there is an urgent need to look back to a period when the United States got it right. Only then will we better understand the challenges we face today.

Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0807003107

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Sowing Crisis by Rashid Khalidi Pdf

From "the foremost U.S. historian of the modern Middle East" ("L.A. Times") comes a powerful argument that the global conflicts now playing out explosively in the Middle East were significantly shaped by the Cold War era.

Author : Lorenz M. Lüthi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108418331

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Cold Wars by Lorenz M. Lüthi Pdf

A new interpretation of the Cold War from the perspective of the smaller and middle powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

Author : Brent E Sasley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781633559738

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The Cold War in Middle East, 1950-1991 by Brent E Sasley Pdf

The Cold War in the Middle East, 1950-1991 examines American and Soviet involvement in the Middle East, and how each superpower's policies and alliances contributed to its overall Cold War strategies.

Author : Guy Burton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000072273

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China and Middle East Conflicts by Guy Burton Pdf

How do aspiring and established rising global powers respond to conflict? Using China, the book studies its response to wars and rivalries in the Middle East from the Cold War to the present. Since the People’s Republic was established in 1949, China has long been involved in the Middle East and its conflicts, from exploiting or avoiding them to their management, containment or resolution. Using a conflict and peace studies angle, Burton adopts a broad perspective on Chinese engagement by looking at its involvement in the region’s conflicts including Israel/Palestine, Iraq before and after 2003, Sudan and the Darfur crisis, the Iranian nuclear deal, the Gulf crisis and the wars in Syria, Libya and Yemen. The book reveals how a rising global and non-Western power handles the challenges associated with both violent and nonviolent conflict and the differences between limiting and reducing violence alongside other ways to eliminate the causes of conflict and grievance. Contributing to the wider discipline of International Relations and peace and conflict studies, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of peace and conflict studies, Chinese foreign policy and the politics and international relations of the Middle East.

Author : Barry Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135168773

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The Great Powers in the Middle East 1941-1947 by Barry Rubin Pdf

First Published in 1981. The objective of this study is to reconstruct the difficulty faced by American and British policy-makers in ‘determining the capabilities and intentions’ of their two main wartime allies regarding the Middle East. Specifically, it seeks to explore the role of great power relations in the Middle East in the breakdown of the wartime alliance and in the origins of the Cold War.

Author : Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0415158494

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The Middle East by Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis Pdf

An account of the politics of the Middle East over the last 50 years. It is an attempt to make sense of the Middle East in the New World Order.

Author : Nigel J. Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134093700

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The Cold War in the Middle East by Nigel J. Ashton Pdf

This edited volume re-assesses the relationship between the United States, the Soviet Union and key regional players in waging and halting conflict in the Middle East between 1967 and 1973. These were pivotal years in the Arab-Israeli conflict, with the effects still very much in evidence today. In addition to addressing established debates, the book opens up new areas of controversy, in particular concerning the inter-war years and the so-called ‘War of Attrition’, and underlines the risks both Moscow and Washington were prepared to run in supporting their regional clients. The engagement of Soviet forces in the air defence of Egypt heightened the danger of escalation and made this one of the hottest regional conflicts of the Cold War era. Against this Cold War backdrop, the motives of both Israel and the Arab states in waging full-scale and lower-intensity conflict are illuminated. The overall goal of this work is to re-assess the relationship between the Cold War and regional conflict in shaping the events of this pivotal period in the Middle East. The Cold War in the Middle East will be of much interest to students of Cold War studies, Middle Eastern history, strategic studies and international history.

Author : Dilip Hiro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190050337

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Cold War in the Islamic World by Dilip Hiro Pdf

For four decades Saudi Arabia and Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoing Cold War between Riyadh and Tehran lie the Sunni-Shia divide, and the two countries' intertwined histories. Saudis see this as a conflict between Sunni and Shia; Iran's ruling clerics view it as one between their own Islamic Republic and an illegitimate monarchy. This foundational schism has played out in a geopolitical competition for dominance in the region: Iran has expanded its influence in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, while Saudi Arabia's hyperactive crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman, has intervened in Yemen, isolated Qatar and destabilized Lebanon. Dilip Hiro examines the toxic rivalry between the two countries, tracing its roots and asking whether this Islamic Cold War is likely to end any time soon.

Author : Roby C. Barrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6000043570

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Greater Middle East and the Cold War by Roby C. Barrett Pdf

Author : Roby C. Barrett
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015077641929

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The Greater Middle East and the Cold War by Roby C. Barrett Pdf

At the height of the Cold War, the US sought to maintain power and influence in the Greater Middle East - the region from Morocco to India -in the context of a growing threat from Russia and the decline of British imperialism. This original and important study illuminates this tense period in international relations, offering many new insights into the global situation of the 1950s and 1960s. Roby Barrett casts fresh light on US foreign policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy, drawing on extensive research in archives and document collections from Kansas to Canberra and numerous interviews with key policy makers and observers from both the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. He explores the application of the Cold War containment policy through economic development and security assistance, highlighting the fundamental similarities between the goals and application of foreign policy in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations as well as the impact of British influence on the process. And in the process this book draws some unexpected conclusions, arguing that Eisenhower's policies were ultimately more successful than Kennedy's, and offers an important and revisionist contribution to our understanding of the Cold War and the Middle East -- Provided by the publisher.

Author : Phebe Marr,William Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000310146

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Riding The Tiger by Phebe Marr,William Lewis Pdf

This book is the outgrowth of a collaborative effort by a small group of national security analysts associated with the Institute forNational Strategic Studies of the National Defense University,government officials responsible for pondering defense and foreign policy issues, and academics with long experience in Middle Eastern affairs. In the past several years these scholars, policy analysts, and military planners have been focusing on the impact on U.S. goals and interests in the Middle East of three seminal events-the ending of the cold war, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the invasion of Kuwaitby Saddam Husayn and the subsequent Gulf War. The authors'individual studies have been nourished by frequent intellectual exchanges with one another and by their participation in numerous academic meetings designed to explore the future of U.S. relations with the Middle East.

Author : Antonio Perra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786721952

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Kennedy and the Middle East by Antonio Perra Pdf

At the height of the Cold War, the John F. Kennedy administration designed an ambitious plan for the Middle East-its aim was to seek rapprochement with Nasser's Egypt in order to keep the Arab world neutral and contain the perceived communist threat. In order to offset this approach, Kennedy sought to grow relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and embrace Israel's defense priorities-a decision which would begin the US-Israeli 'special relationship'. Here, Antonio Perra shows for the first time how new relations with Saudi Arabia and Israel which would come to shape the Middle East for decades were in fact a by-product of Kennedy's efforts at Soviet containment. The Saudi's in particular were increasingly viewed as 'an atavistic regime who would soon disappear' but Kennedy's support for them-which hardened during the Yemen Crisis even as he sought to placate Nasser-had the unintended effect of making them, as today, the US' great pillar of support in the Middle East.