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"A Storm in a Tea-Cup": The Iraq-Kuwait Crisis of 1961: From Gulf Crisis to Inter-Arab Dispute
Jason Hillman
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Paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: HBWS3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, triggered a full-blown crisis whose ramifications reverberate to the present day. Few people at the time were aware of the details of the Iraq-Kuwaiti dispute, let alone the fact that twenty-nine years earlier, on the heels of receiving independence from Great Britain, Kuwait had been subjected to blatant Iraqi threats of invasion. That long-forgotten episode, which triggered the return of British troops to protect Kuwait, followed by a successful effort to achieve an ""Arab solution"" to the crisis, is brought to life in this detailed account. Drawing upon British archival ... Read more
Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, triggered a full-blown crisis whose ramifications reverberate to the present day. Few people at the time were aware of the details of the Iraq-Kuwaiti dispute, let alone the fact that twenty-nine years earlier, on the heels of receiving independence from Great Britain, Kuwait had been subjected to blatant Iraqi threats of invasion. That long-forgotten episode, which triggered the return of British troops to protect Kuwait, followed by a successful effort to achieve an ""Arab solution"" to the crisis, is brought to life in this detailed account. Drawing upon British archival ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
, Israel
ISBN
9789652240927
SKU
V9789652240927
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About Jason Hillman
Jason Hillman earned an M.A. in Middle Eastern History from Tel Aviv University. His research interests include inter-Arab relations in the 1950s and 1960s and the era of Arab nationalism in modern Arab history.
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