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After Suez: Adrift in the American Century
Martin Woollacott
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Description for After Suez: Adrift in the American Century
Hardback. With Tony Blair and George Bush's authority ever more threatened by the blowback from their venture in the Middle East, the Suez Crisis of 1956, has taken on a new relevance. Years after Antony Eden's fateful decision to take on the Egyptian President, this work retraces the legacy of this dramatic foreign policy blunder. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
This book talks about a British Prime Minister urging a sceptical public to war in the Middle East, and a project, both desperate and ambitious, to radically change the political landscape of the Arab world. With Tony Blair and George Bush's authority ever more threatened by the blowback from their venture in the Middle East, the Suez Crisis of 1956, which brought down a government and changed the pattern of world politics for ever, has taken on a new relevance. The similarities with contemporary Iraq leap out, as do the differences. Fifty years after Antony Eden's fateful decision to take ... Read more
This book talks about a British Prime Minister urging a sceptical public to war in the Middle East, and a project, both desperate and ambitious, to radically change the political landscape of the Arab world. With Tony Blair and George Bush's authority ever more threatened by the blowback from their venture in the Middle East, the Suez Crisis of 1956, which brought down a government and changed the pattern of world politics for ever, has taken on a new relevance. The similarities with contemporary Iraq leap out, as do the differences. Fifty years after Antony Eden's fateful decision to take ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845111762
SKU
V9781845111762
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About Martin Woollacott
Martin Woollacott is a Foreign Affairs commentator for the Guardian, having previously been their Foreign News Editor for six years. In over forty years experience as a journalist he has won six awards, including the James Cameron Award for his coverage of Kurdistan in 1991, and was nominated International Reporter of the Year for his coverage of the Vietnam war ... Read more
Reviews for After Suez: Adrift in the American Century
The Observer Review, 1 October 2006 'Wisely, veteran Guardian journalist Martin Woollacott did not set out to prospect for new nuggets. Rather, he uses Suez as a peg on which to hang some illuminating reflections about the West and the Middle East and to follow British policy in an era dominated by the expansion of American power, until both ... Read more