The greater Middle East and the Cold War : US foreign policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy / Roby C. Barrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrett, Roby Carol, 1950-

Series:

Library of international relations (Series) ; 30.

Library of international relations ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.

United States.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--1961-1963.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2007.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Greater Middle East 1953-1958 10

Preemption and Iran 1953

Defusing a crisis and sparking another - Egypt, 1953-1954

A peace for the Arab-Israeli conflict

Running afoul of non-alignment

Nehru and Bandung

Nasser and Bandung

Middle East policy: after six years, rethinking the paradigm

Part I 1958 - The New Order and Reconsiderations 40

Chapter 2 The Wave of the Future 43

The Egyptian-Syrian Union, and saving the Middle East from Communism

A change in plans: fighting Communism with Nasser

A pro-Western alternative?

Britain's Middle East domino theory

Nasser at the pinnacle

Clouds on the horizon: the Lebanese and Jordan crises

Chapter 3 'The Tempest' 64

The gathering storm: the Lebanese crisis

Macmillan's tempest: the Baghdad coup

Revolution in Iraq and a second honeymoon with Cairo

Coming to terms with revolutionary Iraq

Betting on the northern tier

Chapter 4 The 'Center of All Problems' - Iran and 1958 80

Containment through reform and economic development

Iran modernization: the race against time

Playing the Soviet card

The Baghdad coup and Iran

A new relationship with Tehran

Chapter 5 Controlled Democracy - Pakistan and 1958 93

Straddling the fence: the US, Pakistan and India 1956-1958

1957 and the Kashmir dispute in the UN

Pakistan and the search for stability

The Baghdad coup and Ayub Khan

Part II Revising Containment, 1959-1960 104

Chapter 6 The Arab Cold War and US Policy 107

Nasser and the revolution in Iraq

Conflict with the Soviet Union

Iraq and the Syrian connection

Washington's 'Red Scare' over Iraq

Coming to terms with Qasim

Soviet problems with their clients

Communist eclipse in Iraq

Nasser's Syrian labyrinth

Chapter 7 Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel - the Bystanders 127

Jordan's premature obituary

Hussein dangles the Nasser card

Jordanian-UAR relations reach boiling point

Containment policy: Jordan and aid

Saudi Arabia: surviving Nasser's surge

Paranoids with real enemies: Israel and the Arab Cold War

US aid and relations with Israel

Israel's insurance policy: nuclear weapons

Chapter 8 Iran and Pakistan Cash In on Iraq 149

US aid and the Persian bazaar

US aid and complications

Political instability and increased Soviet pressure

The situation improves?

The future of Iranian-US relations

Pakistan's 'controlled democracy'

Paying the Pakistani bill

Ayub: faithful ally and voice of moderation

Difficulties for India: Pakistan and China

Developing the Soviet option

The non-Arab Middle East and the end of the Eisenhower era

Chapter 9 1960 - JFK vs. Nixon, and the Greater Middle East 174

Campaign rhetoric and South Asia

Concerns about JFK in Tehran

1953 reborn: JFK and peace in the Arab Middle East

JFK's campaign rhetoric: a fundamental difference?

Changing the guard with new - old ideas

Part III Lessons from the Past - the Middle East 1961-1962 190

Chapter 10 Courting Nasser, 1961 - New Beginnings? 193

Nasser: the Kennedy view

Nasser fails in Jordan

Siding with feudalism and colonialism

The Syrians call it quits

Nasser's 'declaration of independence from advice'

Israeli complications

Revolutionary Arab nationalism reborn

The Israeli half of the peace equation

Repeating the past: the end of Kennedy's Middle East peace

Chapter 11 Iran at 'the Eleventh Hour' 212

Soviet threats and Iran

The Shah's perspective on US-Iranian relations

Doing something about Iran

The eleventh hour arrives?

Support for Amini

Amini: 'the last hope'

Amini takes the reins

Amini, reform, and the reaction in Washington

Talbot chooses sides

Amini on the slippery slope

Chapter 12 The Shah Ascendant 229

The Shah, military assistance, and Julius Holmes

Holmes: the Shah's ambassador

The Shah comes to Washington

The end of the Amini era

The aftermath of Amini

Kennedy and the Iranian reality

Crisis over - almost

Chapter 13 Pakistan, India, and Priorities 246

Nothing new under the sun

The Harriman mission

The Johnson mission to South Asia

Mending fences with Ayub

Problems with India

Nehru: 'the worst official visit'

Menon and Goa

Pakistan reacts to Goa

Nehru's 'doubts and misgivings'

Nehru explores the Soviet option

Part IV Frustrations of the Fall - JFK and 1963 264

Chapter 14 The Best Laid Plans 267

September surprise: Egypt and the Yemen coup

The allies react

YAR-UAR diplomatic offensive

The advice of friends

Recognition of the YAR

Chapter 15 India, Pakistan, and China - Eastern Opportunities? 278

Nehru's miscalculation

The Chinese teach Nehru a lesson

Washington attempts to take advantage

Problems with Pakistan

Another Harriman mission

New tactics for the pro-India faction

A solution to Kashmir

Chapter 16 1963 - The New Frontier in Tatters 293

Searching for a balance: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the UAR

A new dynamic: changes in Iraq and Syria

Soured relations with the UAR

Iran: another year, another crisis or two

India and Pakistan

The legacy of 1963

Conclusion: Reform and the Primacy of Containment 314

Lessons in containment and economic development, 1953-1958

Containment revamped 1958-1960

Kennedy's Middle East and the Eisenhower legacy

Archives and Collections 457

Published Document Collections 457

Interviews 459

Published Works 459

Dissertations 472.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [457]-472) and index.

ISBN:

9781845113933

1845113934

OCLC:

78989592