- Dedication
- Preface to the fifth edition
- How to use this book
- How to use the online resources
- Note on contributors
- New to this edition
- Introduction: The Middle East and International Relations
- 1. International Relations Theory and the Middle East
- 2. The Emergence of the Middle East into the Modern State System
- 3. The Cold War in the Middle East
- 4. The Middle East Since the Cold War: Movement without Progress
- 5. Oil and Political Economy in the International Relations of the Middle East
- 6. The Puzzle of Political Reform in the Middle East
- 7. The Politics of Identity in Middle East International Relations
- 8. Islam and International Relations in the Middle East: From <i>Umma</i> to Nation State
- 9. Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East
- 10. Middle East Security: The Politics of Violence after the 2003 Iraq War
- 11. Foreign Policymaking in the Middle East: Complex Realism
- 12. The Arab–Israeli Conflict
- 13. The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process
- 14. The International Politics of the Gulf
- 15. The Arab Spring: The ‘People’ in International Relations
- 16. The United States in the Middle East
- 17. Russia, China, and the Middle East
- 18. Europe in the Middle East
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
(p. 63) 3. The Cold War in the Middle East
- Chapter:
- (p. 63) 3. The Cold War in the Middle East
- Author(s):
Peter Sluglett
and Andrew Payne
- DOI:
- 10.1093/hepl/9780198809425.003.0003
This chapter examines the effects of the Cold War upon the states of the Middle East. Although the region was not so profoundly affected as other parts of the world in terms of loss of life or major revolutionary upheaval, it is clear that the lack of democracy and many decades of distorted political development in the Middle East are in great part a legacy of the region's involvement at the interstices of Soviet and American foreign policy. After a brief discussion of early manifestations of USSR–US rivalry in Greece, Turkey, and Iran at the beginning of the Cold War, the chapter uses Iraq as a case study of the changing nature of the relations between a Middle Eastern state and both superpowers from the 1940s until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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- Dedication
- Preface to the fifth edition
- How to use this book
- How to use the online resources
- Note on contributors
- New to this edition
- Introduction: The Middle East and International Relations
- 1. International Relations Theory and the Middle East
- 2. The Emergence of the Middle East into the Modern State System
- 3. The Cold War in the Middle East
- 4. The Middle East Since the Cold War: Movement without Progress
- 5. Oil and Political Economy in the International Relations of the Middle East
- 6. The Puzzle of Political Reform in the Middle East
- 7. The Politics of Identity in Middle East International Relations
- 8. Islam and International Relations in the Middle East: From <i>Umma</i> to Nation State
- 9. Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East
- 10. Middle East Security: The Politics of Violence after the 2003 Iraq War
- 11. Foreign Policymaking in the Middle East: Complex Realism
- 12. The Arab–Israeli Conflict
- 13. The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process
- 14. The International Politics of the Gulf
- 15. The Arab Spring: The ‘People’ in International Relations
- 16. The United States in the Middle East
- 17. Russia, China, and the Middle East
- 18. Europe in the Middle East
- Bibliography
- Subject Index