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Nasser's Gamble : How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power
"Nasser's Gamble draws on declassified documents from six countries and original material in Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Russian to present a new understanding of Egypt's disastrous five-year intervention in Yemen, which Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser later referred to as "...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. The Golden Age of Nasserism; Idealism and Pragmatism in Nasser's Foreign Policy; The Nature of Middle Eastern Politics; The Place of the Intervention in Egyptian Memory; Structure of the Book
- ch.1. The Road to War; The Coup in Yemen; The Struggle for Power in Egypt; The Accidental Intervention?; The Denouement of the Crisis in Cairo
- ch.2. The Soviet-Egyptian Intervention in Yemen; The Nature of Soviet Relations with Egypt and Yemen; The Egyptian Appeal and the Soviet Response; Explaining Soviet Behavior; Forms of Early Soviet Involvement
- ch.3. Food for "Peace": The Breakdown of US-Egyptian Relations, 1962-65; Recognition; Disengagement; The Suspension of US Aid; The Balance of Payments Crisis
- ch.4. Guns for Cotton: The Unraveling of Soviet-Egyptian Relations, 1964-66; Guns for Cotton; The Soviet Quest for Base Rights in Egypt; From Jiddah to Moscow; In the Cracks of Cold War Geology; The Final Unraveling
- ch.5. On the Battlefield in Yemen--and in Egypt; Counterinsurgency; Casualties; Cost; Corruption; The Spread of Popular Discontent
- ch.6. The Fruitless Quest for Peace: Saudi-Egyptian Negotiations, 1964-66; The First Arab Summit; The Second Arab Summit; The Jiddah Agreement; From the Islamic Pact to the Long Breath Strategy; The Kuwaiti Mediation and the Return of Sallal
- ch.7. The Six-Day War and the End of the Intervention in Yemen; The Sinai Option; The Syrian Connection; The Soviet Spark; The Egyptian Initiative; The Impact of the Yemen War on Egyptian Military Performance in the Six-Day War; The Khartoum Conference and the Withdrawal of the Egyptians from Yemen
- Afterword. The Twilight of Egyptian Power.