1st Edition

The Great Powers in the Middle East 1941-1947 The Road to the Cold War

By Barry Rubin Copyright 1981
    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1981. The objective of this study is to reconstruct the difficulty faced by American and British policy-makers in ‘determining the capabilities and intentions’ of their two main wartime allies regarding the Middle East. Specifically, it seeks to explore the role of great power relations in the Middle East in the breakdown of the wartime alliance and in the origins of the Cold War.

    Chapter 1 Modes of United States Policy; Chapter 2 The Battle Over Oil; Chapter 3 Anglo-American Relations: An Overview; Chapter 4 Saudi Arabia and US-British Conflict, 1941–1945; Chapter 5 Iran: A Question of Commitment, 1941–1945; Chapter 6 Turkey: The Burden of Neutrality, 1941–1945; Chapter 7 Anglo-American Relations in the Arab World, 1941–1945; Chapter 8 American Perceptions of Soviet Middle East Policy, 1945; Chapter 9 The Showdown in Iran, 1945–1946; Chapter 10 The Turkish Crisis; Chapter 11 United States Aid and the Truman Doctrine, 1946–1947; Chapter 12 Conclusions: The Road to Cold War;

    Biography

    Barry Rubin