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Pan-Arabism before Nasser : Egyptian power politics and the Palestine Question

Author: Michael Scott Doran
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series: Studies in Middle Eastern history (New York, N.Y.)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book aims to alter profoundly the accepted version of the history of post-World War II Egyptian foreign policy. Michael Doran convincingly demonstrates the absence of any true pan-Arab front from the very beginning of the Arab League. Pan-Arabism before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question argues that, in the late 1940s, Cairo pursued a single-minded foreign policy designed to drive Great  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Scott Doran
ISBN: 0195123611 9780195123616 0195160088 9780195160086
OCLC Number: 39045182
Description: 230 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Title: Studies in Middle Eastern history (New York, N.Y.)
Responsibility: Michael Doran.
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"This book aims to alter profoundly the accepted version of the history of post-World War II Egyptian foreign policy. Michael Doran convincingly demonstrates the absence of any true pan-Arab front from the very beginning of the Arab League. Pan-Arabism before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question argues that, in the late 1940s, Cairo pursued a single-minded foreign policy designed to drive Great Britain, the enemy of Egyptian independence, out of the Middle East. This struggle generated the secondary goal of Egyptian foreign policy: undermining the Middle Eastern states working to sustain British influence in the region." "While uncovering a significant dimension of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Doran also lays the foundation for a new understanding of Egyptian foreign policy. He argues persuasively that pan-Arabism, a policy that historians have traditionally associated with the rise of Gamal Abd al-Nasser in the middle 1950s, actually originated under the old regime." "Pan-Arabism before Nasser is a bold rethinking of twentieth-century Middle Eastern politics and history, with key implications for both the study of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and the volatile politics of the Middle East in general. It will appeal to students, scholars, and professionals in several disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.

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