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Author | : J. Pickering |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1998-07-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0333995481 |
After 1945, Britain maintained a great chain of overseas military outposts stretching from the Suez Canal to Singapore. Commonly termed the `east of Suez' role, this chain had long been thought to be crucial for the country's security and its vitality. Nonetheless, British leaders eventually decided to abandon this network of bases. This study provides the most comprehensive explanation of this pivotal decision to date, while also offering insight into the processes of foreign policy change and the decline of great powers.
Author | : Saki Dockrill |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2002-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230597785 |
This book, based on recently declassified documents in Britain and the USA, is the first detailed account of Britain's East of Suez decision, which was taken by the Harold Wilson Government in 1967-68. Contrary to received opinion, the author argues that the decision was not taken hastily as a result of the November 1967 devaluation. Nor is there any hard evidence to support the notion that there existed a 'Pound-Defence' deal with the USA. Despite Washington's pressure to maintain Britain's East of Suez role, the decision was taken by the Labour Government on the basis of a long-term effort to re-examine Britain's world role since 1959, and it marked the end of an era for postwar Britain.
Author | : Simon C. Smith |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780415331920 |
This book examines Britain's decision to leave the Gulf and considers the interaction between British decision-making, and local responses and initiatives, in shaping the modern Gulf.
Author | : Glen Balfour-Paul |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1994-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521466363 |
An original and perceptive study of Britain's withdrawal from her last Arab dependencies - the Sudan, South West Arabia and the Gulf States.
Author | : Keith Kyle |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : 9780297811626 |
Author | : Walid Khalidi |
Publisher | : American Univ in Cairo Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789774162473 |
A collective look at aspects of the historical background to the continuing Palestinian question
Author | : William Roger Louis |
Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780112905837 |
The main purpose of the British Documents on the End of Empire Project (BDEEP) is to publish documents from British official archives on the ending of colonial rule and the context in which this took place. This publication is the second of three volumes which relate to the years 1964 to 1971, during which period ten territories became independent and all but one (Aden) became new members of the Commonwealth. Issues considered include: Britain's second application to join the EEC; colonial issues at the UN; planning and assessment of priorities for British interests after the withdrawl from Suez; major Whitehall administrative changes and the Overseas Service during 1966 to 1968; an assessment of the value of the Commonwealth to Britain; and developments relating to Rhodesia.
Author | : William Roger Louis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198202417 |
This is an analysis, based on newly available evidence, of the Suez crisis of 1956, its origins, and its consequences. The contributors are all leading authorities, and some, like Mordechai Bar-On, Robert Bowie and Adam Watson, were active participants in the events of the time.
Author | : Simon C. Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136501460 |
This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into both British and American archival sources, it covers all the key events of the period, including the withdrawal from Palestine, the Anglo-American coup against the Musaddiq regime in Iran, the Suez Crisis and its aftermath, the Iraqi and Yemeni revolutions, and the Arab-Israeli conflicts. It demonstrates that, far from experiencing a ‘loss of nerve’ or tamely acquiescing in a transfer of power to the United States, British decision-makers robustly defended their regional interests well into the 1960s and even beyond. It also argues that concept of the ‘special relationship’ impeded the smooth-running of Anglo-American relations in the region by obscuring differences, stymieing clear communication, and practising self-deception on policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic who assumed a contiguity which all too often failed to exist. With the Middle East at the top of the contemporary international policy agenda, and recent Anglo-American interventions fuelling interest in empire, this is a timely book of importance to all those interested in the contemporary development of the region.
Author | : Guy Laron |
Publisher | : Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-08-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781421410111 |
Delving into archival material from six countries, Laron offers a much deeper, nuanced perspective of the Suez Crisis. Origins of the Suez Crisis describes the long run-up to the 1956 Suez Crisis and the crisis itself by focusing on politics, economics, and foreign policy decisions in Egypt, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Based on Arabic source material, as well as multilingual documents from Israeli, Soviet, Czech, American, Indian, and British archives, this is the first historical narrative to discuss the interaction among all of the players involved—rather than simply British and U.S. perspectives. Guy Laron highlights the agency of smaller players and shows how they used Cold War rivalries to advance their own economic circumstances and, ultimately, their status in the global order. He argues that, for developing countries and the superpowers alike, more was at stake than U.S.-USSR one-upmanship; the question of Third World industrialization was seen as crucial to their economies.