Imperial crossroads
Subtitle: the great powers and the Persian Gulf
By: edited by Jeffrey R. Macris and Saul Kelly
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Annapolis, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781591144892
Subjects: History; Strategic aspects; Foreign relations; Great powers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Portuguese presence in the Persian Gulf: an overview / Rudi Matthee; title: The Dutch in the Persian Gulf / Virginia Lunsford; title: The great game and power projection / Robert Johnson; title: The gamekeeper versus the mercenary spirit: the pax Britannica in the Gulf / Saul Kelly; title: Why didn't America replace the British in the Persian Gulf? / Jeffrey R. Macris; title: Richard Nixon, Great Britain, and the Anglo-American strategy of turning the Persian Gulf into an allied lake / Tore T. Petersen; title: A guiding hand or controlling grasp? Britain, intelligence, and the war in Oman, 1970-76 / Clive Jones; title: In Brzezinski's forge: fashioning the Carter doctrine's military instrument / Frank L. Jones; title: The ties that bind: the events of 1979 and the escalation of U.S.-Saudi security relations during the Carter and Reagan administrations / Jason H. Campbell; title: India's "Monroe doctrine" and the Gulf / James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara; title: China's historic return to the Gulf / Ben Simpfendorfer.