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Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon, 1945-1958

Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon, 1945-1958

Gendzier, Irene

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Series: History and Society of the Modern Middle East

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0231140118
ISBN13: 9780231140119
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Nov 7 2006
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.35 Width: 6.34 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Irene Gendzier's critically acclaimed, wide-reaching analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in Lebanon posits that the politics of oil and pipelines figured far more significantly in U.S. relations with Lebanon than previously believed. In 1958 the United States sent thousands of troops to shore up the Lebanese regime in the face of domestic opposition and civil war. The justification was preventing a coup in Iraq, but recently declassified documents show that the true objective was to protect America's commercial, political, and strategic interests in Beirut and the Middle East. By reevaluating U.S.-Lebanese relations within the context of America's collaborative intervention with the Lebanese ruling elite, Gendzier aptly demonstrates how oil, power, and politics drove U.S. policy and influenced the development of the state and the region. In her new preface, Gendzier discusses the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the remarkable continuity of U.S. foreign policy from 1945 to the present.

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