Format:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781501704154
Content:
In Spheres of Intervention, James R. Stocker examines the history of diplomatic relations between the United States and Lebanon during a transformational period for Lebanon and a time of dynamic changes in US policy toward the Middle East.
Content:
Spheres of Intervention -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "This Is the American Policy -- US Interests in Lebanon -- Causes of the Lebanese Civil War -- The Course of the Conflict, 1975-76 -- 1. Sparks in the Tinderbox: The United States, the June War, and the Remaking of the Lebanese Crisis -- Lebanese Domestic Tensions on the Eve of the June War -- The United States and Lebanon in the 1960s -- Lebanon's Six Day War -- Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot -- The Beirut Airport Raid -- 2. Compromise in Cairo: The Nixon Administration and the Cairo Agreement -- "Trying to Be Helpful" -- The August Attacks and the Rogers Plan -- October Crisis and the Cairo Agreement -- 3. From Cairo to Amman: The United States and Lebanese Internal Security -- Post-Cairo US Assistance to Lebanon -- Implementing the Cairo Agreement -- The Kahhale Ambush and the Exodus from the South -- Causes of the Calm -- 4. Plus ça change: International Terrorism, Détente, and the May 1973 Crisis -- The New International Terrorism -- A New Request for Support -- The Israeli Raid on Beirut and the May Crisis -- The Aftermath -- 5. Reckoning Postponed: From the October War to the Civil War -- The October War and the Start of Negotiations -- Lebanese Domestic Politics after the October War -- Diplomacy on the Rocks -- 6. Disturbing Potential: The United States and the Renewed Conflict -- The Outbreak of Conflict -- The Military Cabinet and Syrian Mediation -- Sinai II and the Resumption of Violence in Lebanon -- The January Cease-Fire -- 7. Reluctant Interveners: The Red Line Agreement and Brown's Mediation -- The Constitutional Document and Shifting Alignments -- The Non-Negotiation of the Red Line -- The Brown Mission and the PLO -- From Election to Intervention -- 8. Taking Its Course: The Syrian Intervention and Its Limits -- Reacting to the Syrian Intervention.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501700774
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781501700774
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4517909
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