Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine

RAY TAKEYH is Research Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was educated at New York University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford University, where he obtained his PhD in modern history.

• Acknowledgements Introduction The United States' Cold War Priorities and the Middle East, 1945-1953 American Diplomacy and the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty The Baghdad Pact and the Alpha Plan From Cooperation to Confrontation: The Unveiling of the Alpha Plan Operation Omega and the Policy of Antagonism The Suez Crisis The Eisenhower Doctrine Conclusion Footnotes Bibliography Index