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This article discusses the visit of James Richards, President Eisenhower's special emissary to the Middle East, to Iraq in April 1957 following the pronouncement of the Eisenhower Doctrine. An analysis of the Richards Mission encompasses a range of specific issues, including the relationship in Iraq between the US and UK and American assessments of the stability of the Iraqi government. Moreover, this article examines the American strategy for navigating the rising tide of Arab nationalist sentiment in Iraq after the Suez War. This article explores the ways in which US policy-makers privileged the notions of 'stability' and 'order' in Iraqi political affairs and reflects on the critical dilemmas and contradictions underlying American policy towards Iraq and the Middle East after the 1956 Suez War. Adapted from the source document.

1. Introduction: Rethinking Western Foreign Policy and the Middle East / Christian Kaunert, Sarah Leonard, Lars Berger and Gaynor Johnson. - 2. In the eye of the storm: Ambassador James Richards' mission to Iraq in April 1957 / Brandon King. - 3. 'A good investment?' State sponsorship of terrorism as an instrument of Iraqi foreign policy (1979-1991) / Magdalena Kirchner. - 4. Changing Turkish foreign policy towards Iraq: new tools of engagement / Meltem Muftuler-Bac. - 5. 'I'm glad I'm not a Saudi woman': the First Gulf War and US encounters with Saudi gender relations / Kelly J Shannon. - 6. The EU and the Gulf monarchies: normative power Europe in search of a strategy for engagement / Thomas Demmelhuber and Christian Kaunert. - 7. Somalia versus Captain 'Hook': assessing the EU's security actorness in countering piracy off the Horn of Africa / Christian Kaunert and Kamil Zwolski