Suchergebnisse

Intro -- Preface -- Peacemaking in the Middle East -The Hashemites: Victors or Victims? -- Part 1 -- The Arab World and the Hashemitesbefore the First World War -- The First World War and the Rise ofArab Nationalism -- Negotiating for an Arab State -- The Arab Revolt -- Part 2 -- Feisal and the Peace Conference -- The Collapse of Feisal's Kingdom of Syria -- Part 3 -- Reversals of Fortune 1920-5 -- The Peace Treaties and the Fate ofthe Arab Lands -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chronology -- Bibliographical Note -- Bibliography -- Picture Sources -- Index -- Publishing Info.

A multi-archival documentary history of British policy towards Nasser's Egypt under the Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Home and Wilson governments. The primary focus of the study is an enquiry into the causes of the Anglo-Egyptian Cold War from 1952 to 1967.

This article explores the role of Britain in the lead-up to the 1967 Middle Eastern War. It analyzes why Britain took such an active role in the initial stages and why this was scaled back to a policy of non-intervention in the end. It concludes that Britain's interests in the Middle East, which were primarily the protection of oil, the maintenance of a balance of power and the containment of Nasser, became dependent on an Israeli military victory. Intervention would have had much too high a political and economic cost. Likewise, the USA came to much the same conclusion, which was why both nations secretly welcomed the Israeli victory.