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Imperial crossroads : the great powers and the Persian Gulf /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Macris, Jeffrey R., Kelly, Saul, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Persian Gulf Region > Foreign relations.
Persian Gulf Region > Strategic aspects.
Persian Gulf Region > History.
Great powers > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The Portuguese presence in the Persian Gulf: an overview / Rudi Matthee
  • The Dutch in the Persian Gulf / Virginia Lunsford
  • The great game and power projection / Robert Johnson
  • The gamekeeper versus the mercenary spirit: the pax Britannica in the Gulf / Saul Kelly
  • Why didn't America replace the British in the Persian Gulf? / Jeffrey R. Macris
  • Richard Nixon, Great Britain, and the Anglo-American strategy of turning the Persian Gulf into an allied lake / Tore T. Petersen
  • A guiding hand or controlling grasp? Britain, intelligence, and the war in Oman, 1970-76 / Clive Jones
  • In Brzezinski's forge: fashioning the Carter doctrine's military instrument / Frank L. Jones
  • The ties that bind: the events of 1979 and the escalation of U.S.-Saudi security relations during the Carter and Reagan administrations / Jason H. Campbell
  • India's "Monroe doctrine" and the Gulf / James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara
  • China's historic return to the Gulf / Ben Simpfendorfer.