Origins of the Suez Crisis - Postwar Development Diplomacy Struggle Over Third World

Informationen zum Autor Guy Laron is a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Klappentext Origins of the Suez Crisis describes the long run-up to the 1956 Suez Crisis and the crisis itself by focusing on politics, economics, and foreign policy decisions in Egypt, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Based on Arabic source material, as well as multilingual documents from Israeli, Soviet, Czech, American, Indian, and British archives, this is the first historical narrative to discuss the interaction among all of the players involved¿rather than simply British and U.S. perspectives. Guy Laron highlights the agency of smaller players and shows how they used Cold War rivalries to advance their own economic circumstances and, ultimately, their status in the global order. He argues that, for developing countries and the superpowers alike, more was at stake than U.S.-USSR one-upmanship; the question of Third World industrialization was seen as crucial to their economies. Zusammenfassung -USSR one-upmanship; the question of Third World industrialization was seen as crucial to their economies.

Product details

• Authors: Guy Laron, Guy (The Hebrew University At Jerusalem) Laron, Laron Guy
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2013
• EAN: 9781421410111
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1011-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous