Gendzier Notes from the Minefield

United States Intervention in Lebanon, 1945-1958
With a new preface
ISBN: 978-0-231-51160-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: History and Society of the Modern Middle East

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Gendzier, Irene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Illustrations
Preface
Preface to the 2006 Edition
Part I. The Setting of U.S. Policy
1. The Dynamic of Collaborative Intervention
2. U.S. Postwar Policy and the Middle East
3. Learning Lebanon: A Primer
Part II. Formative Years in the Evolution of U.S. Policy: 1944–1952
4. Alternating Currents of Criticism and Conformity
5. The Foundations of U.S. Policy, PACLIFT: Petroleum, Aviation, Commerce, Labor, Intelligence, and the Friendship Treaty
6. Altered Circumstances and the Design of U.S. Political Strategy
Part III. The Eisenhower Administration and the Sham'un Regime: A Policy of Information and Consent
7. Pressure Points and Priorities
8. Lebanon: The "Bridgehead in the Orient"
9. Realities of Power in the "Rear Area"
10. Our Man in Beirut
Part IV. Intervening Before Intervention
11. Civil War, May 1958
12. Doubt, Deliberation, and Preparation
Part V. The Minefield Explodes: U.S. Military Intervention
13. 11,000 Sorties in Search of a Target
14. By Mutual Consent: July–October 1958
Epilogue: 1958 in Retrospect
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Irene L. Gendzier is professor of political science at Boston University and author of Development Against Democracy: Manipulating Political Change in the Third World.