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Informationen zum Autor Roby C. Barrett is an Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute, Washington, DC and an Adjunct Professor of History at Texas A&M Commerce. He has a doctorate in Middle East and South Asian history from the University of Texas at Austin and is a former US Foreign Service Officer in the Middle East. He has been an Eisenhower-Roberts Research Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute in Washington, DC and a Rotary International Fellow at the University of Munich Institute for Russian Studies. He is a specialist on security and defense issues and has over twenty-five years of government, business and academic experience in the Middle East. He is the president of CCOMM Corporation, a firm specializing in national security policy and advanced defense technology applications. Klappentext Explores US foreign policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy! illuminating the struggles of two American administrations to deal with social! economic! and political change in an area divided by regional and Cold War rivalries. This book offers a revisionist contribution to our understanding of the Cold War and the Middle East. Vorwort Explores US foreign policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy, illuminating the struggles of two American administrations to deal with social, economic, and political change in an area divided by regional and Cold War rivalries. This book offers a revisionist contribution to our understanding of the Cold War and the Middle East. Zusammenfassung Explores US foreign policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy, illuminating the struggles of two American administrations to deal with social, economic, and political change in an area divided by regional and Cold War rivalries. This book offers a revisionist contribution to our understanding of the Cold War and the Middle East. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsList of Abbreviations xiList of Illustrations xvAcknowledgments xviiPreface xixIntroduction 1Chapter 1: The Greater Middle East 1953-1958 10Part I: 1958 - The New Order and Reconsiderations 40Chapter 2: The Wave of the Future 43Chapter 3: ‘The Tempest’ 64Chapter 4: The ‘Center of All Problems’ - Iran and 1958 80Chapter 5: Controlled Democracy - Pakistan and 1958 93Part II: Revising Containment, 1959-1960 104Chapter 6: The Arab Cold War and US Policy 107Chapter 7: Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel - the Bystanders 127Chapter 8: Iran and Pakistan Cash In on Iraq 149Chapter 9: 1960 - JFK vs. Nixon, and the Greater Middle East 174Part III: Lessons from the Past - the Middle East 1961-1962 190Chapter 10: Courting Nasser, 1961 - New Beginnings? 193...
