Notes from the minefield
Subtitle: United States intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958
By: Irene L. Gendzier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9780429037818
Subjects: Foreign relations; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Government; International; International Relations; General; Diplomatic relations
Description: A 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. 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 as well as influenced the development of the state and region of Lebanon.
Notes: "First published 1999 by Westview Press"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The setting of U.S. policy. The dynamic of collaborative intervention; title: U.S. postwar policy and the Middle East; title: Learning Lebanon : a primer; title: pt. 2. Formative years in the evolution of U.S. policy : 1944-1952. Alternating currents of criticism and conformity; title: The foundations of U.S. policy, PACLIFT : Petroleum, Aviation, Commerce, Labor, Intelligence, and the Friendship Treaty; title: Altered circumstances and the design of U.S. political strategy; title: pt. 3. The Eisenhower administration and the Sham'un regime : a policy of information and consent. Pressure points and priorities; title: Lebanon : the "Bridgehead in the Orient"; title: Realities of power in the "rear area"; title: Our man in Beirut; title: pt. 4. Intervening before intervention. Civil War, May 1958; title: Doubt, deliberation, and preparation; title: pt. 5. The minefield explodes : U.S. military intervention; title: 11,000 sorties in search of a target; title: By mutual consent : July-October 1958; title: Epilogue : 1958 in retrospect.