The decline of the Anglo-American Middle East, 1961-1969 : a willing retreat /

Petersen, Tore T., 1954-

The decline of the Anglo-American Middle East, 1961-1969 : a willing retreat / Tore T. Petersen. - Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, c2006. - xi, 181 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-176) and index.

The Anglo-American Middle East, 1961-1969 -- The great powers and the Middle East, 1952-1961 -- John F. Kennedy confronts the Middle East: a new beginning -- Kennedy, Nasser, Macmillan and the war in Yemen, 1962-1963 -- The flickering embers of empire: Douglas-Home, Lyndon Johnson and the Middle East -- Trying to hold the line: Lyndon Johnson and the British role East of Suez -- Leaving Aden, October 1964 to November 1967 -- Doctrinaire socialists as feudal overlords: Saudi Arabia, 1964-1967 -- The withdrawal from the Persian Gulf -- The end of the Anglo-American Middle East?

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Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.
Middle East--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--Middle East.
Medio Oriente--Relaciones Exteriores--Estados Unidos.
Estados Unidos--Relaciones Exteriores--Medio Oriente.
Medio Oriente--Relaciones Exteriores--Gran bretaña.
Gran Bretaña--Relaciones exteriores--Medio Oriente.


United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States.
Middle East--Foreign relations--20th century.

439 DS 63.2 / P484d 2006

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