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Nasser’s Gamble: How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power

Jesse Ferris
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  • Contents

  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
    • The Golden Age of Nasserism
    • Idealism and Pragmatism in Nasser’s Foreign Policy
    • The Nature of Middle Eastern Politics
    • The Place of the Intervention in Egyptian Memory
    • Structure of the Book
  • Chapter One: The Road to War
    • The Coup in Yemen
    • The Struggle for Power in Egypt
    • The Accidental Intervention?
    • The Denouement of the Crisis in Cairo
  • Chapter Two: The Soviet-Egyptian Intervention in Yemen
    • The Nature of Soviet Relations with Egypt and Yemen
    • The Egyptian Appeal and the Soviet Response
    • Explaining Soviet Behavior
    • Forms of Early Soviet Involvement
  • Chapter Three: Food for “Peace”: The Breakdown of US-Egyptian Relations, 1962–65
    • Recognition
    • Disengagement
    • The Suspension of US Aid
    • The Balance of Payments Crisis
  • Chapter Four: Guns for Cotton: The Unraveling of Soviet-Egyptian Relations, 1964–66
    • Guns for Cotton
    • The Soviet Quest for Base Rights in Egypt
    • From Jiddah to Moscow
    • In the Cracks of Cold War Geology
    • The Final Unraveling
  • Chapter Five: On the Battlefield in Yemen—and in Egypt
    • Counterinsurgency
    • Casualties
    • Cost
    • Corruption
    • The Spread of Popular Discontent
  • Chapter Six: The Fruitless Quest for Peace: Saudi-Egyptian Negotiations, 1964–66
    • The First Arab Summit
    • The Second Arab Summit
    • The Jiddah Agreement
    • From the Islamic Pact to the Long Breath Strategy
    • The Kuwaiti Mediation and the Return of Sallāl
  • Chapter Seven: The Six-Day War and the End of the Intervention in Yemen
    • The Sinai Option
    • The Syrian Connection
    • The Soviet Spark
    • The Egyptian Initiative
    • The Impact of the Yemen War on Egyptian Military Performance in the Six-Day War
    • The Khartoum Conference and the Withdrawal of the Egyptians from Yemen
  • Afterword: The Twilight of Egyptian Power
  • Bibliographical Note
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Published: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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  • 9781400845231 (ebook)
  • 9780691155142 (hardcover)
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