European-American Relations and the Middle East: From Suez to Iraq

ISBN-13: 9780415476645 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str.

Mauer Victor

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This book examines the evolution of European-American relations with the Middle East since 1945. Placing the current transatlantic debates on the Middle East into a broader context, this work analyses how, why, and to what extent European and US roles, interests, threat perceptions, and policy attitudes in the region have changed, relating to both the region as a whole and the two main issues analysed: Gulf Security and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. The contributors then go on to discuss the implications of these developments for Western policymaking. The volume makes four key contributions. First, it examines the subject matter from a truly transatlantic perspective, with all chapters adopting a bi- or multilateral approach, taking into account the views from both the US and individual European countries or the EC/EU collectively. Second, the book takes a long-term view, covering a series of crises and developments over the past six decades. Third, it has a systematic structure, with the predominantly chronological order of the chapters being geared towards depicting trends and evolutions with regard to the key themes of the book. Finally, the book builds bridges between historians and political scientists/analysts, as well as between experts of transatlantic relations and Middle East scholars. This book will be of great interest to students of transatlantic relations, the Middle East, US foreign policy, European politics, international history and IR in general. Daniel M ckli is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich. He is also the editor of CSS Analyses in Security Policy. Victor Mauer is Deputy Director and Head of Research of the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, and Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at ETH Zurich

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Introduction Daniel Möckli and Victor Mauer  Part 1: Changing Roles and Interests: From Suez to Iraq  1. Suez 1956: European Colonial Interests and US Cold War Prerogatives Tore T. Petersen  2. Iraq 2003: Regime Change and Its European Discontents Victor Mauer  Part 2: The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the West  3. Anglo-American Relations and the Palestine Question, 1945-56 John Sakkas  4. At Odds in the Middle East: Paris, Washington, and the Six-Day War, 1967 Garret Martin  5. The EC-Nine and Transatlantic Conflict During the October War and the Oil Crisis, 1973/74 Daniel Möckli  6. The Euro-Arab Dialogue, the Venice Declaration, and Beyond: The Limits of a Distinct EC Policy, 1974-89 David Allen and Andrin Hauri  7. From Madrid to Camp David: Europe, the US, and the Middle East Peace Process in the 1990s Patrick Müller and Claire Spencer  8. The Middle East Quartet: A New Role for Europe? Constanza Musu  Part 3: Gulf Security and Transatlantic Relations  9. Dealing with Iran: The US, Britain, and Regime Change 1951-3 Malcolm Byrne  10. Securing Gulf Oil: Britain, NATO, and the Question of Military Intervention East of Suez, 1949-68 Stephen Blackwell  11. Subcontracting Security: The US, Britain, and Gulf Security Before the Carter Doctrine Roland Popp  12. Great Game Redux: The US, Europe, and Gulf Security in the Late Cold War Peter John Brobst  13. Europe, the US, and the Gulf After the Cold War Gerd Nonneman  14. Iran and the Bomb: Washington, the EU, and Iranian Nuclear Ambitions Harsh V. Pant.  Conclusion: Major Trends in European-American Relations and the Middle East since 1945 Daniel Möckli and Victor Mauer