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Caught in the Middle East : U.S. policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1945-1961 /

"As is all too clear today, American postwar efforts to ameliorate Arab-Israeli relations before they could damage American interests in the Middle East failed to achieve a lasting peace and entangled the United States in the conflict in complex ways. Peter L. Hahn explores the strategic, diplo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hahn, Peter L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I: Genesis: the Palestine conflict to 1945
  • Security and politics: the context of U.S. policy toward Palestine after 1945
  • Ambivalence: Truman's policy toward Palestine, 1945-1947
  • Diplomacy and conflict: the creation of Israel and the Arab-Israeli war of 1948-1949
  • II: Security commitments: U.S. strategic interests in the Middle East, 1949-1953
  • Presidential passivity: Truman and the peace process, 1949-1953
  • Repatriation versus resettlement: the Palestinian refugee crisis, 1949-1953
  • Holy places: the question of Jerusalem, 1949-1953
  • Tangled web: the U.S. failure to solve multiple controversies, 1949-1953
  • The impact of conflict: U.S. relations with Israel and the Arab states, 1949-1953
  • III: Cold War framework: U.S. perspectives on the Middle East, 1953-1957
  • Border wars: Eisenhower, Dulles, and Arab-Israeli frontiers, 1953-1955
  • Cornucopia of conflict: water, Jerusalem, refugees, and trade, 1953-1955
  • Stillborn: the U.S. peace process and the resumption of war, 1955-1956
  • Desperation diplomacy: U.S. policy during the Suez-Sinai war of 1956
  • Persistent conflict: the aftermath of the Suez-Sinai war
  • IV: Security affirmed: U.S. regional considerations in the Middle East after the Suez-Sinai war
  • Containing conflict: U.S. efforts to avert Arab-Israeli clashes, 1957-1961
  • Selective activism: U.S. efforts to solve Arab-Israeli disputes, 1957-1961
  • Cost of conflict: U.S. relations with Israel and the Arab states, 1953-1961
  • Caught in the Middle East.