Nasser's Gamble How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power.
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 ""...
| Основен автор: | Ferris, Jesse. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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Съдържание:
- Cover; Nasser's Gamble; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; The Golden Age of Nasserism; Idealism and Pragmatism in Nasser's Foreign Policy; The Nature of Middle Eastern Politics; The Place of the Intervention in Egyptian Memory; Structure of the Book; CHAPTER ONE: The Road to War; The Coup in Yemen; The Struggle for Power in Egypt; The Accidental Intervention?; The Denouement of the Crisis in Cairo; CHAPTER TWO: The Soviet-Egyptian Intervention in Yemen; The Nature of Soviet Relations with Egypt and Yemen; The Egyptian Appeal and the Soviet Response.
- Explaining Soviet BehaviorForms of Early Soviet Involvement; CHAPTER THREE: Food for "Peace": The Breakdown of US-Egyptian Relations, 1962-65; Recognition; Disengagement; The Suspension of US Aid; The Balance of Payments Crisis; CHAPTER FOUR: Guns for Cotton: The Unraveling of Soviet-Egyptian Relations, 1964-66; Guns for Cotton; The Soviet Quest for Base Rights in Egypt; From Jiddah to Moscow; In the Cracks of Cold War Geology; The Final Unraveling; CHAPTER FIVE: On the Battlefield in Yemen-and in Egypt; Counterinsurgency; Casualties; Cost; Corruption; The Spread of Popular Discontent.
- CHAPTER SIX: The Fruitless Quest for Peace: Saudi-Egyptian Negotiations, 1964-66The First Arab Summit; The Second Arab Summit; The Jiddah Agreement; From the Islamic Pact to the Long Breath Strategy; The Kuwaiti Mediation and the Return of Sallal; CHAPTER SEVEN: The Six-Day War and the End of the Intervention in Yemen; The Sinai Option; The Syrian Connection; The Soviet Spark; The Egyptian Initiative; The Impact of the Yemen War on Egyptian Military Performance in the Six-Day War; The Khartoum Conference and the Withdrawal of the Egyptians from Yemen; AFTERWORD: The Twilight of Egyptian Power.