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The six-day war the breaking of the Middle East

This history examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context. One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at a...

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Main Author: Laron, Guy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press 2017
Subjects:
Israel-Arab War, 1967 > Causes
Israel-Arab War, 1967 > Influence
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction From The Local To The Global
  • The Article
  • The Baath In Power 1963-66
  • Playing The Israel Card
  • The Spy Who Came Back From The Cold
  • The Corruption Of The Revolution
  • Sliding Into War
  • The Phone Call
  • Arming The Middle East
  • Secret Liaisons
  • Abba Eban's Tin Ear
  • One Soviet Foreign Policy or Two?
  • Restraining Damascus Disciplining Cairo
  • A Soviet Hall of Mirrors
  • A Very Israeli Putsch?
  • Last Days
  • Defying Israel's Founding Father
  • Expanding Israel's Borders
  • Confronting Syria
  • The Self-inflicted Recession
  • Rabin's Schlieffen Plan
  • From Yemen to Texas
  • A Short Tether
  • Conclusion: Six Days and After
  • Endnotes

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