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Spheres of intervention : US foreign policy and the collapse of Lebanon, 1967-1976 /

This work examines the history of diplomatic relations between the United States and Lebanon during a transformational period for Lebanon and a time of dynamic changes in U.S. policy toward the Middle East. Drawing on tens of thousands of pages of declassified materials from U.S. archives and a vari...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stocker, James R., 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: This is the American policy?
  • Sparks in the tinderbox: the United States, the June war, and the re-making of the Lebanese crisis
  • Compromise in Cairo: the Nixon administration and the Cairo agreement
  • From Cairo to Amman: the United States and Lebanese internal security
  • Plus ça change: international terrorism, detente and the May 1973 crisis
  • Reckoning postponed: from the October war to the civil war
  • Disturbing potential: the United States and the renewed conflict
  • Reluctant interveners: the red line agreement and Brown's mediation
  • Taking its course: the Syrian intervention and its limits
  • Epilogue: The cycle continues.