Notes from the Minefield

by Gendzier, Irene L.

• ISBN13: 9780813366890
• ISBN10: 0813366895
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-07
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

This is a pathbreaking analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East that explores the connection between oil, politics, and foreign policy that culminated in U.S. military action in Lebanon in 1958.

Author Biography

Irene L. Gendzier is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston University, a research associate of the African Studies Center, and reseach affiliate in the Middle East Center at Harvard University. She has published widely and is currently on the editorial boards of New Political Science and Radical Philosphy Review: A Journal of Progressive Thought.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
The Dynamic of Collaborative Intervention	p. 3
U.S. Postwar Policy and the Middle East	p. 21
Learning Lebanon: a Primer	p. 43
Alternating Currents of Criticism and Conformity	p. 65
The Foundations of U.S. Policy, Paclift: Petroleum, Aviation, Commerce, Labor, Intelligence, and the Friendship Treaty	p. 90
Altered Circumstances and the Design of U.S. Political Strategy	p. 115
Pressure Points and Priorities	p. 143
Lebanon: the "Bridgehead in the Orient"	p. 160
Realities of Power in the "Rear Area"	p. 181
Our Man in Beirut	p. 202
Civil War, May 1958	p. 229
Doubt, Deliberation, and Preparation	p. 264
11,000 Sorties in Search of a Target	p. 295
By Mutual Consent: July-October 1958	p. 338
Epilogue: 1958 in Retrospect	p. 365
Notes	p. 379
Bibliography	p. 423
Index	p. 445
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