Strategy and Politics in the Middle East, 1954-1960

Michael J. Cohen holds the Lazarus Philips Chair in History at the University of Bar-Ilan. In 1998 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, and has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Stanford, Duke, Chapel Hill and Maryland, in the USA and at the LSE in London. He has published eight books on Israel and the Middle East.

• 1. Allied Global Strategy  2. Allied Interests in the Middle East  3. The British Strategic Concept  4. The Arab-Israeli Problem  5. The Northern Tier Takes Shape  6. The Formation of the Baghdad Pact  7. Anglo-American-Turkish Staff Planning, 1955  8. Baghdad Pact Planning, 1955-56  9. Allied Intervention in a Middle East War, 1955-56  10. The Consequences of Suez  11. Allied Strategy in the Middle East after Suez  12. From the Baghdad Pact to CENTO