More Than a Doctrine The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East / Randall Fowler ; foreword by Martin J. Medhurst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fowler, Randall, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.

Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.

Middle East.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

Summary:

Given on January 5, 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine Address forever changed America's relationship with the Middle East. In the aftermath of the Suez Crisis, President Dwight D. Eisenhower boldly declared that the United States would henceforth serve as the region's "protector of freedom" against Communist aggression. Eighteen months later the president invoked the Eisenhower Doctrine, landing troops in Lebanon and setting an enduring precedent for U.S. intervention in the Middle East. How did Eisenhower justify this intervention to an American public wary of foreign entanglements? Why did he boldly issue the doctrine that bears his name? And, most important, how has Eisenhower's rhetoric continued to influence American policy and perception of the Middle East? Randall Fowler answers these questions and more in More Than a Doctrine . With the expansion of America's global influence and the executive branch's power, presidential rhetoric has become an increasingly important tool in U.S. foreign policy--nowhere more so than in the Middle East. By examining Eisenhower's rhetoric, More Than a Doctrine explores how the argumentative origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine Address continue to impact us today.

Contents:

Eisenhower Doctrine address

The Eisenhower Doctrine: a species of containment

Operation Ajax and the rhetoric of misdirection

The Baghdad Pact, Project Alpha, and the limits of rhetorical surreption

Lion's last roar, eagle's first flight: Eisenhower at Suez

The doctrine applied: intervention in Lebanon and the rhetoric of justification.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64012-043-2

1-64012-041-6

OCLC:

1000298133