The greater Middle East and the Cold War US foreign policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy - Barrett, Roby Carol 1950- (I.B. Tauris & Co., 2007)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-472) and index
List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Greater Middle East 1953-1958; Part I: 1958 -- The New Order and Reconsiderations; Chapter 2: The Wave of the Future; Chapter 3: 'The Tempest'; Chapter 4: The 'Center of All Problems' -- Iran and 1958; Chapter 5: Controlled Democracy -- Pakistan and 1958; Part II: Revising Containment, 1959-1960; Chapter 6: The Arab Cold War and US Policy; Chapter 7: Jordan, Saudi Arabie, and Israel -- the Bystanders; Chapter 8: Iran and Pakistan Cash in on Iraq
Roby C Barrett casts fresh light on US foreign policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy, illuminating the struggles of two American administrations to deal with massive social, economic, and political change in an area sharply divided by regional and Cold War rivalries. With a dramatic backdrop of revolutionary Arab nationalism, Zionism, indigenous communism, teetering colonial empires, unstable traditional monarchies, oil, territorial disputes and the threat of Soviet domination of the region, this book vividly highlights the fundamental similarities between the goals and application of foreign po