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1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781836240631
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1836240635
Content:
Discusses Anglo-American policy in the Middle East under Kennedy and Johnson, as well as under British Conservative and Labour governments. This title provides a historical background on the Anglo-American Middle East for the 1950s. It analyses Western policy toward Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser, and toward the Arabian Peninsula
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Cast of Characters -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction The Anglo-American Middle East, 1961-1969 -- Prologue The Great Powers and the Middle East, 1952-1961 -- Chapter 1. John F. Kennedy Confronts the Middle East: A New Beginning? -- Chapter 2. Kennedy, Nasser, Macmillan and the War in Yemen, 1962-1963 -- Chapter 3. The Flickering Embers of Empire: Douglas-Home, Lyndon Johnson and the Middle East -- Chapter 4. Trying to Hold the Line: Lyndon Johnson and the British Role East of Suez
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Chapter 5. Leaving Aden, October 1964 to November 1967 -- Chapter 6. Doctrinaire Socialists as Feudal Overlords: Saudi Arabia, 1964-1967 -- Chapter 7. The Withdrawal from the Persian Gulf -- Chapter 8. The End of the Anglo-American Middle East? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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