Eisenhower Doctrine


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Eisenhower Doctrine


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1957 A US initiative to limit USSR influence in the Middle East by economic and military aid.
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Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S.
Brinkmanship in Middle East may backfire with consequences for Central Asia
While scholars have dug up American and British archives to challenge these assumptions and demonstrate that the Eisenhower Doctrine had the implicit objective of containing revolutionary Arab nationalists rather than Soviet supported entities, Chehab's analyses and perceptions primarily fed into the Cold War lens.
Diving into the papers of Farid Chebab, Lebanon's first spy chief
It was based on what is popularly known as the Eisenhower Doctrine, which reaffirms American readiness to defend the security and stability of Gulf countries.
Saudi Press Roundup
This left him with little choice but to declare the Eisenhower Doctrine, which embraced American responsibility to prop up pro- Western rulers (Hahn 2006, 39).
Shifting currents: Dwight Eisenhower and the dynamic of presidential opportunity structure
Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to help them resist Communist aggression in what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine.
Today in History -- Monday, January 5
There are six chapters: Syria in its environment; coups and covert action, 1949; the Shishakli era, 1949-54; Syria between Nasser and the West, 1954-56; battling the Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957-58; the United Arab Republic, 1958-61.
Secret War in the Middle East: The Covert Struggle for Syria, 1949-1961 (reprint, 1995)
war diplomacy: After Truman sent troops to Korea following the North's invasion of the South, his successor pronounced the Dwight Eisenhower Doctrine of lending military assistance to those nations who fear communist insurgency or threat and who request help.
War coverage: media toe presidents' lines
Just a few months later, in January 1957, Eisenhower made a speech that launched what would become known as the Eisenhower Doctrine, pledging the United States to secure the region, and its interests, against communist aggression.
Nichols, David A.: Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War
Chamoun chose close alignment with the West led by the US and was the only Arab Head of State to come out in open support of the Eisenhower Doctrine in 1957 (this would be the subject of a separate forthcoming article in this series).
Opinion: The revolution and pacts (36)
Five of the book's chapters are preoccupied directly or indirectly with Nasser including discussion of the 1956 Suez War, the Eisenhower Doctrine which addressed Nasser's erosion of traditional Arab monarchies, and the 1967 Six-Day War that so discredited pan-Arabism and Nasser that ideological room was made for Islamist radicalism.
Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East
The "Eisenhower Doctrine", as the proposal was later known, laid the foundation for perceiving the Middle East as the battlefield for the Cold War.
Presidents who have addressed Muslim affairs
Eisenhower was in office during this historical juncture and many people may recall the Eisenhower Doctrine, delivered as a message to Congress on Jan.
Eisenhower's lesson for Bush: Mideast summit is an occasion for U.S. to use its clout with Israel
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