1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910708157703321

Titolo

Africa's Great Lakes region : a security, political, and humanitarian challenge : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, October 22, 2015

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 61 pages)

Soggetti

Politics and government

Legislative hearings.

Burundi Politics and government

Congo (Democratic Republic) Politics and government

Rwanda Politics and government

Uganda Politics and government

Burundi

Congo (Democratic Republic)

Rwanda

Uganda

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.

"Serial No. 114-107."

Title from title screen (viewed Dec. 3, 2015).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787206703321

Autore

Sorley Lewis <1934->

Titolo

Arms transfers under Nixon : a policy analysis / / Lewis Sorley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1983

©1983

ISBN

0-8131-8438-X

0-8131-4933-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Disciplina

355/.032/0973

Soggetti

Military assistance, American - History - 20th century

Arms transfers - United States - 20th century

United States Foreign relations 1969-1974

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Inherited Situation; 2. The Nixon Foreign Policy; 3. Arms Transfer Policy and Mechanisms; 4. Middle East Policy Objectives; 5. Egypt as the Key; 6. Trying to Live with Israel; 7. Jordan and the Persian Gulf Mosaic; 8. NATO and West European Arms Transfers; 9. Latin America, Asia, and Africa; 10. Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendix: Arms Transfer Figures and Tables; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

A model of policy analysis,  Arms Transfers under Nixon provides a lucid and lively demonstration of how the Nixon administration combined skillful diplomacy and the adroit use of arms transfers to bring about a remarkable series of American foreign policy achievements. The Middle East provides the most dramatic example. Here, the Arab-Israeli military balance was stabilized, Egypt was persuaded and enabled to forsake its heavy dependence upon the Soviet Union, conditions favorable to peace negotiations were arranged, and important interim agreements were brokered by the United States.In the P