The Persian Gulf Crisis

Author : Steve A. Yetiv
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313008184

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Ideal for student research, this book provides a reference guide to the war as well as seven essays analyzing a variety of aspects of the war and its consequences. The essays address questions such as: How did Saddam Hussein become such a major threat and how has he survived the war? How critical was George Bush in driving U.S. and global foreign policy during the crisis? How were key decisions made? Did the war fail or succeed in retrospect? What were its long-run political, economic, strategic and cultural effects? Can collective security work? Is the United Nations likely to be effective in future crises? What lessons can be learned from the crisis? Yetiv draws on primary documents and extensive interviews with many key players such as Colin Powell, James Baker, and Brent Scowcroft, and Arab and European leaders which cast new light on the event. Following a list of key players and a complete chronology of events, seven essays offer a contemporary perspective on the war: Drama in the Desert; War Erupts in a Storm: The Continuation of Diplomacy by Air and on the Ground; From Truman to Desert Storm: The Rising Eagle in the Persian Gulf; President Bush and Saddam Hussein: A Classic Case of Individuals Driving History; The West Arms a Brutal Dictator: Can Proliferation Be Controlled in the Post-Cold War World?; The United Nations and Collective Security: Was the Gulf War a Model for the Future?; The Impact of the Persian Gulf War. Reference components include a narrative historical overview of the war and biographical profiles of each of the major players in the war. Twelve primary documents include speeches and UN resolutions. A glossary of terms particular to the war and an annotated bibliography complete the work. A selection of photos complements the text. This readable guide is a one-stop source for reference material and in-depth analysis of the key foreign policy event of the 1990s, and should appeal to a broad readership.

Author : Christopher C. Joyner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313034473

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The Persian Gulf War by Christopher C. Joyner Pdf

Although the stability of the Persian Gulf region has been of rising importance since World War II, it was during the 1980s, when the Iran-Iraq War threatened to upset the balance of power in the region, that its importance became even more magnified. This collection of essays surveys the current state of that region, placing into clearer perspective the political, security, and diplomatic dimensions of the recently ended war. By reevaluating the political landscape of the Gulf, the book produces a gauge for better assessing those factors and forces that affected the conflict's outcome and that will continue to influence future political and security developments in the region. The volume begins with an introduction by the editor that examines the geography of the Gulf and the primary geopolitical factors that influenced perceptions of the region during the war. The essays are then divided into two sections covering Strategic and Political Dimensions and Diplomatic and Legal Dimensions. Topics covered in the first section include the roots of the crisis, Soviet, Israeli and Arab Gulf states' interests in the conflict, U.S. policy in the region, and the role of U.S. military forces. Section two discusses the reflagging of Kuwaiti tankers, the United Nations' involvement, and the cease-fire negotiations. The book concludes with a selected bibliography and an index. This study will be an important resource for courses in political science, diplomacy, and Mid-East history, as well as a significant addition to both public and university libraries.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Government publications
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021067702

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The Persian Gulf Crisis by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science Pdf

Author : Ted Galen Carpenter
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0932790852

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America Entangled by Ted Galen Carpenter Pdf

Author : Susan Jeffords,Lauren Rabinovitz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0813520428

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Seeing Through the Media by Susan Jeffords,Lauren Rabinovitz Pdf

An eye-opening look at the effect of the media on public perception of The Persian Gulf War

Author : Robert Helms,Robert H. Dorff
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029171546

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The Persian Gulf Crisis by Robert Helms,Robert H. Dorff Pdf

This book examines the implications of the Persian Gulf crisis in order to enhance our understanding of the post-Cold War international system. More than just another analysis of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent war, the book looks at the more general aspects of the use of force (political, economic, and military) evident in the Gulf crisis and what they can tell us about the emerging post-Cold War system. Contributors were selected on the basis of their ability to address specific questions and policy issues, and to cast their analyses at a broadly theoretical level. Each chapter looks at a different aspect of conflict in the international system and how that relates to the Persian Gulf crisis. Several aspects of the crisis and the new international system are examined such as the role of the United Nations, the utility of economic sanctions, the historical origin of the crisis itself, the potential sources of conflict and responses to it, and the changing nature of the use of military force. To the extent that the lessons found contradict the common wisdoms that emerged in the immediate aftermath of the war, many of the chapters challenge the trend to find sweeping generalizations in the Gulf crisis that bear directly on international relations in the 1990s and beyond. Civilian and military policymakers, as well as students and teachers of international studies, will find this book of interest.

Author : Douglas Kellner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000304329

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The Persian Gulf TV War by Douglas Kellner Pdf

Douglas Kellner's Persian Gulf TV War attacks the myths, disinformation, and propaganda disseminated during the Gulf war. At once a work of social theory, media criticism, and political history, this book demonstrates how television served as a conduit for George Bush's war policies while silencing anti-war voices and foregoing spirited discussion of the complex issues involved. In so doing, the medium failed to assume its democratic responsibilities of adequately informing the American public and debating issues of common concern. Kellner analyzes the dominant frames through which television presented the war and focuses on the propaganda that sold the war to the public–one of the great media spectacles and public relations campaigns of the post-World War II era. In the spirit of Orwell and Marcuse, Kellner studies the language surrounding the Gulf war and the cynical politics of distortion and disinformation that shaped the mainstream media version of the war, how the Bush administration and Pentagon manipulated the media, and why a majority of the American public accepted the war as just and moral.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000036960668

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Triumph Without Victory by Anonim Pdf

The remarkable hardcover success of Triumph Without Victory was evidence of the public's need for a three-dimensional behind-the-scenes account of the Gulf War. Now this acclaimed work is available in trade paperback, published to coincide with the war's second anniversary. 15 maps.

Author : F. Gregory Gause, III
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107469167

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The International Relations of the Persian Gulf by F. Gregory Gause, III Pdf

Gregory Gause's masterful book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four decades. The story begins in 1971 when Great Britain ended its protectorate relations with the smaller states of the lower Gulf. It traces developments in the region from the oil 'revolution' of 1973–4 through the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf war of 1990–1 to the toppling of Saddam Hussein in the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, bringing the story of Gulf regional politics up to 2008. The book highlights transnational identity issues, regime security and the politics of the world oil market, and charts the changing mix of interests and ambitions driving American policy. The author brings his experience as a scholar and commentator on the Gulf to this riveting account of one of the most politically volatile regions on earth.

Author : Herbert H. Blumberg,Christopher C. French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Middle East
ISBN : UCSC:32106018495439

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The Persian Gulf War by Herbert H. Blumberg,Christopher C. French Pdf

This collection assesses the Gulf War from a variety of social science perspectives and across several disciplines: history, international relations, economics, psychology, and law. Contributors: Joe Stork, Ann M. Lesch, John Simpson, John Bulloch, Harvey Morris, Adel Darwish, Judith Miller, Laurie Mylroie, Clive Ponting, Peter W. Rodman, James Petras, Charles William Maynes, Hugh Miall, Peter Custers, Maarten Smeets, George Joffe, Ralph K. White, Jerrold M. Post, Christopher C. French, Christopher Greenwood, Michael J. Glennon, Michael T. Klare, Mark Kramer, David Albright, Mark Hibbs, Rune Ottosen, Louis Kriesberg, Amnesty International, Michael K. Walzer, Amin Saikal, Chris Dammers, Mary Ann Tetreault, Rashid I. Khalidi, Clovis Maksoud, Robert E. Harkavy, Bruce R. Kuniholm, Jeremy Seabrook, Amnon Kapeiiouk, Masaru Tamamoto, Jerry W. Sanders, Oliver Ramsbotham, K. Subrahmanyam, George Perkovich, John C. Olanyi, Dou Hui, Pam Solo, Thomas Risse-Kappan, Leonard V. Johnson, John W. Dower, Mohamed Nabil Fahmy, Bernard Wood, Marilyn B. Young, Bruce Russett, James S. Sutterlin, Stephen Lewis, Jim Wurst, Robert C. Johansen, and Herbert H. Blumberg.

Author : Hamid Mowlana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429983078

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Triumph Of The Image by Hamid Mowlana Pdf

THE TRIUMPH OF IMAGE over reality and reason is the theme of this book. New communication technologies have made possible the transportation of images and words in real time to hundreds of millions of people around the world. We thought we witnessed the Gulf War as we sat, mesmerized by the imagery. But the studies from the many countries assembled for this book suggest that it was not the war in the Persian Gulf that we witnessed but rather imagery orchestrated to convey a sense of triumph and thus to achieve results that reality and reason could never have achieved. The book offers contributions from thirty-five authors in eighteen countries, including short samplings from the media of several regions. The authors explore the social, economic, and political context of media coverage in their countries, the domination of one image in most of them, and the struggle for alternative perspectives. The authors probe the dynamics of image-making and pose some challenges for the future as well as provide us with a unique glimpse of how the world outside of the United States (as well as many Americans) viewed the war in the Persian Gulf and how the dynamics of image-making and information control operate. Triumph of the Image will be useful to scholars and students in communications and mass media, international relations, political science, cultural studies, propaganda, censorship, and contemporary history as well as to the general public.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991
ISBN : PSU:000018075410

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The Persian Gulf Crisis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert J. Pauly,Jr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351876315

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US Foreign Policy and the Persian Gulf by Robert J. Pauly,Jr Pdf

Robert J. Pauly, Jr examines the history of US foreign policy toward the Greater Middle East in general and focuses specifically on the fundamental economic, military and political causes of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf crisis. He investigates to what extent these causes were internal and external in origin, looks at the principal actors in the crisis, and determines whether and how these actors have continued to drive unfolding events in the Persian Gulf ever since. The volume explores in detail the role of American leaders since 1989, including how far the US should collaborate with Europe to pursue both American and collective Western economic, military and political interests in the Gulf. It also considers the prospects for the future of American-led nation-building operations in Iraq and the outlook for the eventual liberal democratization of the Greater Middle East.

Author : Douglas W. Craft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Operational art (Military science)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082408860

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An Operational Analysis of the Persian Gulf War by Douglas W. Craft Pdf

Author : Mohammed E. Ahrari,James Noyes
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028925496

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The Persian Gulf After the Cold War by Mohammed E. Ahrari,James Noyes Pdf

This is a comprehensive examination of the strategic affairs of the Persian Gulf since the Gulf War of 1991. The authors conclude that the arms race in the Persian Gulf should be controlled, but maintain it is likely to continue because of the clashing strategic perspectives of Saudi Arabia and Iran, and because of the sustained willingness of all major suppliers to find new revenue sources for their declining defense industries in the post-Cold War decade. They also argue that the U.S. should not adopt a policy of isolating or ignoring Iran in its endeavors to find security arrangements in the Persian Gulf, and that a weakened Iraq has become a major source of instability in the Persian Gulf.