Accommodating to a Working Relationship: Arab Nationalism and US Cold War Policies in the Middle East, 1958-60

Author(s): Roland Popp
Journal Title: Cold War History
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Volume: 10
Issue: 3
Pages: 397-427
Publisher(s): Routledge
Publication Year: 2010

The article reconsiders the attempts of the Eisenhower administration (1958-60) to come to terms with the realities of Middle Eastern politics by initiating a rapprochement with the forces of radical Arab nationalism. The establishment of a limited 'working relationship' with Gamal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic had a stabilising influence on intra-regional developments and contributed to the containment of Soviet advances in Iraq and Yemen. Despite these successes, the Eisenhower administration proved to be ideologically disinclined to establish a constructive long-term relationship with the key regional force.

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