Eisenhower Doctrine

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Eisenhower Doctrine

1957 A US initiative to limit USSR influence in the Middle East by economic and military aid.

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GCC countries want renewal of the Eisenhower doctrine on the basis of a written agreement, ensuring US military participation to defend them.

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

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

Containing Arab Nationalism: the Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East.

The middle man

Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-1961 (Chapel Hill, 2004); Salim Yaqub, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (Chapel Hill, 2004); and Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (New York, 2002).

Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance

America's Eisenhower Doctrine that 'you're either for us or against us as we fight Communism' pushed several Arab states into Moscow's grip, resulting in stifling five-year economic plans and total state control.

Books: Reviews: How the US can help Middle Eastern stability; Dreaming of Damascus: Merchants, Mullahs and Militants in the New Middle East: by Stephen Glain, John Murray, pounds 8.99

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