Foreign Policy As Nation Making - Turkey and Egypt in the Cold War

A comparison of Turkey's and Egypt's diverging foreign policies during the Cold War in light of their leaderships' nation making projects.

List of contents

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Empire and nationalism in Turkey and Egypt: 1839-1950; 2. The Democrats in opposition: imagining a 'Little America'; 3. The Free Officers in opposition: imagining revolution; 4. Turkey's accession to NATO, 1950-52: members of the 'free world'; 5. Neutralism and pan-Arabism in Egypt, 1952-54: securing sovereignty; 6. Turkey and the Baghdad Pact, 1955: 'freeing' the Middle East; 7. Egypt from the Baghdad Pact to Czech Arms, 1955: shielding sovereignty; 8. Turkey and the Syrian crisis, 1957: linking spheres; 9. Egypt from Suez to Syrian Union, 1956-58: sovereign action; Comparative conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Reem Abou-El-Fadl is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Before moving to School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, she was Lecturer at Durham University and Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in International Relations and the Middle East at the University of Oxford.

Summary

Turkey's and Egypt's foreign policies in the 1950s present a puzzle, with the Turkish Democratic Party pursuing NATO membership and sponsoring the pro-Western Baghdad Pact, while Egypt's Free Officers promoted neutralism and pan-Arab alliances. Abou-El-Fadl argues that the answer to this lies in the two leaderships' contrasting nation making projects.

Product details

• Authors: Reem Abou-El-Fadl, Reem (School of Oriental and African Abou-El-Fadl, Reem (School of Oriental and African Studies Abou-El-Fadl, Abou-El-Fadl Reem
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781108475044
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47504-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: The Global Middle East; The Global Middle East
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Egypt, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, International Relations, Turkey, Comparative Politics, c 1950 to c 1959, C 1945 To C 1960, Türkiye / Turkey