Bryan R. Gibson

Sold Out? Us Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War

Buch

This book analyzes the ways in which US policy toward Iraq was dictated by America's broader Cold War strategy between 1958 and 1975. While most historians have focused on hot Cold War conflicts such as Cuba, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, few have recognized Iraq's significance as a Cold War battleground. This book argues that US decisions and actions were designed to deny the Soviet Union influence over Iraq and to create a strategic base in the oil-rich Gulf region. Using newly available primary sources and interviews, this book reveals new details on America's decision-making toward and actions against Iraq during the height of the Cold War an… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-137-48711-7
EAN: 9781137487117
Produktnummer: 20733329
Verlag: Springer Nature
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 257 S.
Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 476 g
Auflage: 2015
Gewicht: 476

Über den Autor

Bryan R. Gibson holds a PhD in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is the author of Covert Relationship: American Foreign Policy, Intelligence and the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 and co-editor of The Iran-Iraq War: New International Perspectives.