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Imperial Crossroads : The Great Powers and the Persian Gulf

ISBN: 9781591144892 | 1591144892
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Naval Inst Pr
Pub. Date: 7/15/2012

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Table of Contents
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Prefacep. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xix
Abbreviationsp. xxi
The Portuguese Presence in the Persian Gulf: An Overviewp. 1
The Dutch in the Persian Gulfp. 13
The Great Game and Power Projectionp. 31
The Gamekeeper versus the Mercenary Spirit: The Pax Britannica in the Gulfp. 49
Why Didn't America Replace the British in the Persian Gulf?p. 61
Richard Nixon, Great Britain, and the Anglo-American Strategy of Turning the Persian Gulf into an Allied Lakep. 75
A Guiding Hand or Controlling Grasp? Britain, Intelligence, and the War in Oman, 1970-1976p. 91
In Brzezinski's Forge: Fashioning the Carter Doctrine's Military Instrumentp. 109
The Ties That Bind: The Events of 1979 and the Escalation of U.S. Saudi Security Relations during the Carter and Reagan Administrationsp. 129
India's "Monroe Doctrine" and the Gulfp. 147
China's Historic Return to the Gulfp. 167
Notesp. 185
Contributorsp. 219
Indexp. 223
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