American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 8, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230601512
Subjects: Middle East - General; Modern - 20th Century; United States - 20th Century; History / Modern / 20th Century; History; History - General History; 20th century; Foreign relations; Persian Gulf Region; Security, International; United States; History: World
Description: "This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region. W. Taylor Fain demonstrates that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintigration of British imperial authority in the Gulf, specifically its failure to establish viable surrogates for British power in the area after 1971, that eventually led the United States to assume its current role in the region, a role that many today consider imperial."--Jacket.