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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956571703321

Autore

Fowler Randall

Titolo

More Than a Doctrine : The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East / / Randall Fowler ; foreword by Martin J. Medhurst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, , 2018

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-64012-043-2

1-64012-041-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

327.7305609/045

Soggetti

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations 1953-1961

United States Foreign relations Middle East

Middle East Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Eisenhower Doctrine address -- The Eisenhower Doctrine: a species of containment -- Operation Ajax and the rhetoric of misdirection -- The Baghdad Pact, Project Alpha, and the limits of rhetorical surreption -- Lion's last roar, eagle's first flight: Eisenhower at Suez -- The doctrine applied: intervention in Lebanon and the rhetoric of justification.

Sommario/riassunto

Given on January 5, 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine Address forever changed America's relationship with the Middle East. In the aftermath of the Suez Crisis, President Dwight D. Eisenhower boldly declared that the United States would henceforth serve as the region's "protector of freedom" against Communist aggression. Eighteen months later the president invoked the Eisenhower Doctrine, landing troops in Lebanon and setting an enduring precedent for U.S. intervention in the Middle East.    How did Eisenhower justify this intervention to an American public wary of foreign entanglements? Why did he boldly issue the doctrine that bears his name? And, most important, how has Eisenhower's rhetoric continued to influence American policy and



perception of the Middle East? Randall Fowler answers these questions and more in More Than a Doctrine . With the expansion of America's global influence and the executive branch's power, presidential rhetoric has become an increasingly important tool in U.S. foreign policy--nowhere more so than in the Middle East. By examining Eisenhower's rhetoric, More Than a Doctrine  explores how the argumentative origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine Address continue to impact us today.