Containing Arab Nationalism The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East

Name: Containing Arab Nationalism The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East
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ISBN: 9780807855089

ISBN-10: 0807855081

ISBN-13: 9780807855089

Edition: 2004

Authors: Salim Yaqub

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Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, the United States pledged to give increased economic and military aid to receptive Middle Eastern countries and to protect--with U.S. armed forces if necessary--the territorial integrity and political independence of these nations from the threat of "international Communism." Salim Yaqub demonstrates that although the United States officially aimed to protect the Middle East from Soviet encroachment, the Eisenhower Doctrine had the unspoken mission of containing the radical Arab nationalism of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom Eisenhower regarded as an unwitting agent of Soviet expansionism. By offering aid and protection, the Eisenhower…

Book details

List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction



The United States and the Arab Middle East, 1941-1956



Birth of a Doctrine, November 1956-January 1957



Launching the Doctrine, January-April 1957



The Conservative Moment, March-June 1957



The Syrian Crisis, July-December 1957



The Nasserist Onslaught, January-April 1958



The Lebanese Crisis, April-July 1958



Death of a Doctrine, July 1958-December 1960


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index