Markey, Samuel E. (2007). The US-Israeli partnership & America’s search for strategy in the Middle East, 1945-1974. University of Birmingham. M.Phil.
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Abstract
Contrary to popular academic assumption, the story of US Middle East strategy may be summarized by two key characteristics: reaction and incoherence. These descriptors are especially true of Washington’s strategic partnership with Tel Aviv – an arrangement that emerged relatively late in the development of US regional strategy, in response to the stagnation of primary efforts to establish a strategic arrangement centred on US-Arab partnerships. The US-Israeli partnership was therefore not an inevitable evolution of US strategy, but rather a product of the political pragmatism of the Johnson and Nixon administrations (not to mention a highly spurious interpretation of the events of the Jordanian civil war of September 1970). Only in 1973, following yet another round of Arab-Israeli hostilities, did the US begin to revise its arrangement with Israel to redress the balance between US-Israeli and US-Arab relations.
| Type of Work: | Thesis (Masters by Research > M.Phil.) | ||||||
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| Award Type: | Masters by Research > M.Phil. | ||||||
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| College/Faculty: | Schools (1998 to 2008) > School of Historical Studies | ||||||
| School or Department: | School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies | ||||||
| Funders: | None/not applicable | ||||||
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations D History General and Old World > DS Asia E History America > E11 America (General) |
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| URI: | http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/61 |
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