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Informationen zum Autor Philip Zelikow , the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia, taught at Harvard University during most of the 1990s. He has experience with high-level statecraft in each of the five administrations from Reagan through Obama, working in various capacities at the State Department, White House, and the Defense Department. He was also the executive director of the 9/11 Commission. Ernest May was the Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard University, where he also directed the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. A Navy veteran, he taught about international history for more than fifty years before his death in 2009. Klappentext " In the summer of 1956, after a year of crisis and near war in the Middle East, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, the vital waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. Theensuing crisis, war, and peacemaking riveted the attention of an anxious world. The results seemed to threaten a possible world war, rocked the Middle East, shook alliances, and changed the course of history. For those who want to learn more about the inner workings of statecraft, the Suez crisis can offer a master class. Six governments played principal parts, each driving the action at one moment or another. Each saw a different problem. Each had its own estimates of the situation and each other. Each scoped out its planned maneuvers using every kind of power. Suez Deconstructed uses an unprecedented approach. A coordinated team of scholars breaks the crisis down into three distinct phases. In each phase the reader steps from capital to capital, seeing the situation as the leaders saw it. After each part, a set of observations helps the reader reflect on the choices and the way they interact. Suez Deconstructed is not just a fresh way to understand the history of a major world crisis. Whether one's primary interest is statecraft or history, this study provides a fascinating step-by-step experience, repeatedly shifting from one viewpoint to another. At each stage, readers gain rare insight into how well each country actually understood the others, and how the leaders defined and redefined their problems, improvised possible diplomatic and military solutions, and tried to change the course of history. " Inhaltsverzeichnis " Contents Introduction Map: The Middle East of 1956 and Europe's Oil Lifeline Map: Israel and Its Neighbors, 1956 The World of 1956 Part One: What to Do about Nasser's Egypt Moscow Jerusalem Paris London Washington Cairo Observations on Part One Part Two What to Do about the Crisis Washington Cairo Moscow Paris Jerusalem London Observations on Part Two Part Three What to Do about the War Jerusalem Cairo Moscow Paris Washington London Final Observations: No End of Lessons About the Contributors Notes Index "...
