Laffan / Weiss Facing Fear

The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4524-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Laffan, Michael

Weiss, Max

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

INTRODUCTION - 1
The Golden Age of Nasserism 3
Idealism and Pragmatism in Nasser's Foreign Policy 11
The Nature of Middle Eastern Politics 14
The Place of the Intervention in Egyptian Memory 16
Structure of the Book 21

CHAPTER ONE - The Road to War 24
The Coup in Yemen 29
The Struggle for Power in Egypt 37
The Accidental Intervention? 49
The Denouement of the Crisis in Cairo 61

CHAPTER TWO - The Soviet-Egyptian Intervention in Yemen 70
The Nature of Soviet Relations with Egypt and Yemen 71
The Egyptian Appeal and the Soviet Response 75
Explaining Soviet Behavior 88
Forms of Early Soviet Involvement 94

CHAPTER THREE - Food for "Peace": The Breakdown of US-Egyptian Relations, 1962–65 102
Recognition 106
Disengagement 113
The Suspension of US Aid 127
The Balance of Payments Crisis 139

CHAPTER FOUR - Guns for Cotton: The Unraveling of Soviet-Egyptian Relations, 1964–66 142
Guns for Cotton 144
The Soviet Quest for Base Rights in Egypt 146
From Jiddah to Moscow 151
In the Cracks of Cold War Geology 159
The Final Unraveling 162

CHAPTER FIVE - On the Battlefield in Yemen--and in Egypt 174
Counterinsurgency 176
Casualties 190
Cost 195
Corruption 199
The Spread of Popular Discontent 206

CHAPTER SIX - The Fruitless Quest for Peace: Saudi-Egyptian Negotiations, 1964–66 215
The First Arab Summit 217
The Second Arab Summit 222
The Jiddah Agreement 232
From the Islamic Pact to the Long Breath Strategy 249
The Kuwaiti Mediation and the Return of Sallal 258

CHAPTER SEVEN - The Six-Day War and the End of the Intervention in Yemen 262
The Sinai Option 266
The Syrian Connection 272
The Soviet Spark 275
The Egyptian Initiative 284
The Impact of the Yemen War on Egyptian Military Performance in the Six-Day War 289
The Khartoum Conference and the Withdrawal of the Egyptians from Yemen 290

AFTERWORD - The Twilight of Egyptian Power 295

Bibliographical Note 313
Bibliography 319
Index 335

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Laffan is professor of history at Princeton University. His books include The Makings of Indonesian Islam (Princeton). Max Weiss is assistant professor of history and Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. He is the author of In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi‘ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon.