Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-1961

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2004 - 398 páginas
American postwar efforts to ameliorate Arab-Israeli relations entangled the United States in the Arab-Israeli conflict in complex ways. Peter L. Hahn explores the diplomatic and cultural factors that influenced the policies of Presidents Truman and Eisenh
 

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Introduction
1
Genesis The Palestine Conflict to 1945
9
Security and Politics The Context of US Policy toward Palestine after 1945
20
Ambivalence Trumans Policy toward Palestine 19451947
32
Diplomacy and Conflict The Creation of Israel and the ArabIsraeli War of 19481949
44
Security Commitments US Strategic Interests in the Middle East 19491953
67
Presidential Passivity Truman and the Peace Process 19491953
86
Repatriation versus Resettlement The Palestinian Refugee Crisis 19491953
99
Cornucopia of Conflict Water Jerusalem Refugees and Trade 19531955
170
Stillborn The US Peace Process and the Resumption of War 19551956
182
Desperation Diplomacy US Policy during the SuezSinai War of 1956
194
Persistent Conflict The Aftermath of the SuezSinai War
210
Security Affirmed US Regional Considerations in the Middle East after the SuezSinai War
223
Containing Conflict US Efforts to Avert ArabIsraeli Clashes 19571961
235
Selective Activism US Efforts to Solve ArabIsraeli Dispute 19571961
248
Cost of Conflict US Relations with Israel and the Arab States 19531961
261

Holy Places The Question of Jerusalem 19491953
112
Tangled Web The US Failure to Solve Multiple Controversies 19491953
123
The Impact of Conflict US Relations with Israel and the Arab States 19491953
133
Cold War Framework US Perspectives on the Middle East 19531957
147
Border Wars Eisenhower Dulles and ArabIsraeli Frontiers 19531955
158
Caught in the Middle East
276
Note
295
Bibliography
367
Index
385
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Peter L. Hahn is professor of history at The Ohio State University and executive director of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is author of The United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945-1956: Strategy and Diplomacy in the Early Cold War.

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