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  title info:
    title: Ending empire in the Middle East
    sub title: Britain, the United States and post-war decolonization, 1945-1973
  name:
    name part: Smith, Simon C.
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 248 pages : map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into both British and American archival sources, it covers all the key events of the period, including the withdrawal from Palestine, the Anglo-American coup against the Musaddiq regime in Iran, the Suez Crisis and its aftermath, the Iraqi and Yemeni revolutions and the Arab-Israeli conflicts. It demonstrates that, far from experiencing a 'loss of nerve' or tamely acquiescing in a transfer of power to the United States, British decision-makers robustly defended their regional interests well into the 1960s and even beyond. It also argues that concept of the 'special relationship' impeded the smooth-running of Anglo-American relations in the region by obscuring differences, stymieing clear communication and practicing self-deception on policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic who assumed a contiguity which all too often failed to exist. With the Middle East at the top of the contemporary international policy agenda, and recent Anglo-American interventions fuelling interest in empire, this is a timely book of importance to all those interested in the contemporary development of the region.
  table of contents: Allies of a kind, 1945-55 -- Suez schism, 1956 -- Power transferred?, 1956-60 -- Conflict and co-operation, 1961-71 -- To intervene or not to intervene : the Arab-Israeli dispute, 1967-73.
  note: Simon C. Smith.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: e-uk---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Middle East
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Middle East
  classification: DS63.18 .S59 2012
  classification: 956.04
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history ; 11
  identifier: 9780415431217
  identifier: 0415431212
  identifier: 9780203143728
  identifier: 0203143728
  identifier: 9780415728409
  identifier: 0415728401
  identifier: 2011027072
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110714
    record change date: 20181023092954.0
    record identifier: in00003988501