Nasser's Gamble (eBook)

How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power

Jesse Ferris (Autor)

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2012
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4523-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Nasser's Gamble draws on declassified documents from six countries and original material in Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Russian to present a new understanding of Egypt's disastrous five-year intervention in Yemen, which Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser later referred to as "e;my Vietnam."e; Jesse Ferris argues that Nasser's attempt to export the Egyptian revolution to Yemen played a decisive role in destabilizing Egypt's relations with the Cold War powers, tarnishing its image in the Arab world, ruining its economy, and driving its rulers to instigate the fatal series of missteps that led to war with Israel in 1967. Viewing the Six Day War as an unintended consequence of the Saudi-Egyptian struggle over Yemen, Ferris demonstrates that the most important Cold War conflict in the Middle East was not the clash between Israel and its neighbors. It was the inter-Arab struggle between monarchies and republics over power and legitimacy. Egypt's defeat in the "e;Arab Cold War"e; set the stage for the rise of Saudi Arabia and political Islam. Bold and provocative, Nasser's Gamble brings to life a critical phase in the modern history of the Middle East. Its compelling analysis of Egypt's fall from power in the 1960s offers new insights into the decline of Arab nationalism, exposing the deep historical roots of the Arab Spring of 2011.

Autor

Jesse Ferris is vice president for strategy at the Israel Democracy Institute and a historian of the modern Middle East.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.12.2012
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Al-Badr (East Pakistan) • Algeria • American Council of Learned Societies • Ancien Régime • Anti-Imperialism • Anwar Sadat • Arab Cold War • Arab Communists • Arabian Peninsula • Arab–Israeli conflict • arab leaders • Arab nationalism • arabs • Arab socialism • Arab Socialist Union • arab spring • Arab summits • Arab unity • Arab World • ArabЉsraeli conflict • assassination • bribery • British Empire • Civil War • Cold War conflict • commander-in-chief • Counterinsurgency • Counter-Insurgency • coup d'état • cuban missile crisis • Cuban missilie crisis • Dean Rusk • Decolonization • Dictatorship • Diplomacy • domestic performance • Egypt • Egyptian Air Force • Egyptian Armed Forces • egyptian government • Egyptian intervention • Egyptian memoirs • Egyptian neutrality • Egyptian Revolution • egyptians • Egyptian taboos • Exclusion • Export of revolution • Faisal I of Iraq • Faysal • financial aid • foreign policy • Free Officers • Gamal Abdel Nasser • Geopolitics • Great Power • hashemites • hegemony • Hosni Mubarak • Ideology • imperialism • Insurgency • inter-Arab tensions • inward-focused policy • Iraq • Israel Democracy Institute • Israelis • Jeddah • John F. Kennedy • Kennan Institute • Khrushchev • Kuwait • Leonid Brezhnev • Liberation Rally • Lyndon Johnson • Ma'rib • Materiel • Michael Oren • Middle East • military campaign • military occupation • Monarchy • Nasser • Nasserism • Nasser regime • national security • Near East • Nikita Khrushchev • obstacle • Ottoman mother-state • Palestine • pan-Arabism • perfidy • Political participation • Politics • Power struggle • Precedent • Princeton University • pro-Israel policy • Qāsim regime • Q_sim regime • Ramadan Offensive • Rapprochement • Reactionary • Rebellion • regime change • Revolution • revolutionary ideals • revolutionary movement • Revolutionary movements • Revolutionary Politics • riyadh • Saudi Arabia • Saudi–Egyptian relations • Saudi–Egyptian struggle • Saudis • SaudiЅgyptian relations • SaudiЅgyptian struggle • Sinai Peninsula • six day war • Six-Day War • Solidarity • South Arabia • South Yemen • Soviet Armed Forces • Soviet–Egyptian relationship • Soviet Empire • Soviet Navy • Soviet Union • SovietЅgyptian relationship • Subversion • Suez Crisis • Syria • syrians • Task Force • Tel Aviv University • terrorism • Tunisia • United Arab Republic • United States • US Aid • US diplomatic cables • US–Egyptian relations • US–Saudi alliance • US Sixth Fleet • USГaudi alliance • USЅgyptian relations • war • war effort • warfare • Western security • Western World • Yemen • Yemen Arab Republic • Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) • Yemeni politics • Yemeni Revolution • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4523-8 / 1400845238
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4523-1 / 9781400845231