Gendzier, Irene Notes from the Minefield ISBN 13: 9780231104746

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Irene Gendzier's critically acclaimed, wide-reaching analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in Lebanon posits that the politics of oil and pipelines figured far more significantly in U.S. relations with Lebanon than previously believed. In 1958 the United States sent thousands of troops to shore up the Lebanese regime in the face of domestic opposition and civil war. The justification was preventing a coup in Iraq, but recently declassified documents show that the true objective was to protect America's commercial, political, and strategic interests in Beirut and the Middle East. By reevaluating U.S.-Lebanese relations within the context of America's collaborative intervention with the Lebanese ruling elite, Irene Gendzier aptly demonstrates how oil, power, and politics drove U.S. policy and influenced the development of the state and the region. Featuring a new introduction in which Gendzier discusses the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the remarkable continuity of U.S. foreign policy from 1945 to the present, Notes from the Minefield continues to be the standard text on this topic.

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Irene L. Gendzier is professor of political science at Boston University and author of Development Against Democracy: Manipulating Political Change in the Third World.

Review:

Notes from the Minefield is an impressive work of scholarship, containing a great deal of fascinating information. No one will be able to write on U.S. policy toward Lebanon in the 1950s without reference to it.

(William B. Quandt, University of Virginia)

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  • PublisherColumbia University Press
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 023110474X
  • ISBN 13 9780231104746
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages400

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