Notes From The Minefield: United States Intervention In Lebanon And The Middle East, 1945-1958

by Irene L Gendzier

Overview

Irene Gendzier's critically acclaimed, wide-reaching analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in Lebanon posits that the politics of oil and pipelines figured far more significantly in U.S. relations with Lebanon than previously believed. In 1958 the United States sent thousands of troops to shore up the Lebanese regime in the face of domestic opp

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429711299
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/08/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	522
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Irene L. Gendzier

Table of Contents

Preface -- The Setting of U.S. Policy -- The Dynamic of Collaborative Intervention -- U.S. Postwar Policy and the Middle East -- Learning Lebanon: A Primer -- Formative Years in the Evolution of U.S. Policy: 1944-1952 -- Alternating Currents of Criticism and Conformity -- The Foundations of U.S. Policy, PACLIFT: Petroleum, Aviation, Commerce, Labor, Intelligence, and the Friendship Treaty -- Altered Circumstances and the Design of U.S. Political Strategy -- The Eisenhower Administration and the Sham'un Regime: A Policy of Information and Consent -- Pressure Points and Priorities -- Lebanon: The "Bridgehead in the Orient" -- Realities of Power in the "Rear Area" -- Our Man in Beirut -- Intervening before Intervention -- Civil War, May 1958 -- Doubt, Deliberation, and Preparation -- The Minefield Explodes: U.S. Military Intervention -- 11,000 Sorties in Search of a Target -- By Mutual Consent: July-October 1958 -- Epilogue: 1958 in Retrospect

Editorial Reviews

Irene Gendzier's argument is tightly presented and coherent, and the overall story of the antecedent to the 1958 U.S. intervention in Lebanon is told with insight, clarity, and on the basis of an excellent use of primary research materials. This book will be looked upon as a model for the presentation of a well-evidenced argument on the nature of U.S. foreign relations with Lebanon, and more generally, with the Middle East.

Richard Falk

An historical account of US policy in the Middle East from 1945 to 1958 concentrating on both Lebanese politics and conflicts as well as US intervention in the years prior to and during the civil war of 1958. Gendzier (political science, Boston U.) uses information obtained from recently declassified documents underlining an astute analysis of policy in the Mediterranean and Middle East that explores the connection between oil, politics, and foreign policy as it culminates in the US military action of 1958. Includes photographs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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