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Anglo-American Policy Toward the Persian Gulf, 1978-1985
Tore Petersen
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Hardcover. Offers an analysis on how Great Britain and the United States confronted the initial emergence of fundamentalist Islam with the occupation of the Holy Mosque in Mecca and Khomenei's revolution in Iran. Despite the loss of Iran, the United States and Britain managed to secure the Arab side of the Persian Gulf in the Western camp. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FBX; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
For many commentators and historians the announcement of the Carter Doctrine signaled the end of the British presence and the final transfer of power to the United States in the Persian Gulf. But on the ground the reality was different, after the announcement of the British leaving the Persian Gulf in 1971, formal positions were replaced by informal ones. Britain still ran much of the political, economic and military life in the lower Gulf and in the Arabian Peninsula. The transition from formal to informal empire was seamless: British influence remained large and almost paramount in the region. Margaret Thatcher's ... Read more
For many commentators and historians the announcement of the Carter Doctrine signaled the end of the British presence and the final transfer of power to the United States in the Persian Gulf. But on the ground the reality was different, after the announcement of the British leaving the Persian Gulf in 1971, formal positions were replaced by informal ones. Britain still ran much of the political, economic and military life in the lower Gulf and in the Arabian Peninsula. The transition from formal to informal empire was seamless: British influence remained large and almost paramount in the region. Margaret Thatcher's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845193713
SKU
V9781845193713
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99-50
About Tore Petersen
Tore T. Petersen is Professor of International and American Diplomatic History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is the author of The Middle East between the Great Powers: Anglo-American Conflict and Cooperation, 1952-7, The Decline of the Anglo-American Middle East, 1961-1969, and Richard Nixon, Great Britain and the Anglo-American Alignment in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. ... Read more
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