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The Middle East and the Cold War: Between Security and Development
Editor: Massimiliano Trentin in collaboration with Matteo Gerlini
Date Of Publication: Apr 2012
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3715-6
Isbn: 1-4438-3715-6
There have been quite a lot of attempts to find out exactly what the impact of the Cold War on the Middle East was, and this from different disciplinary perspectives. This volumes tries to integrate the historical debate with new fresh insights thanks to the works of young scholars who are currently engaged in archival and field research. Algeria, Sudan, Jordan as well as Syria, Israel and Iran during the embattled 1950s and 1960s are the objects of this volume, which draws a much more complicated picture than one might expect. As a matter of fact, both the Cold War superpowers and their European allies proved constrained in their interventions to shape the political and economic dynamics of the region according to their own plans: on the contrary, Middle Eastern rulers enjoyed remarkable autonomy to achieve their goals, and fully exploited, in rhetorics and practice, the competition and rivalry which divided the industrial countries during the Cold War. The process of decolonization and the related construction of new patterns of national sovereignty and development were major issues at stake for both the Cold War camps and their postcolonial partners in the Middle East. Though peculiar, the region proved to be no exception to global trends. The so called “liberal” Fifties as well as the “radical” Sixties of the XXth century were times of great conflict and change, setting much of the institutions and patterns of development which lasted for three decades, at least, but also providing fresh opportunities for new social and politics groups to emerge and consolidate in power. In light of the current events in North Africa and the Middle East at large, this volume is a highly valuable contribution to the deeper and wider understanding of the region in itself as well as the patterns of its integration within the wider, global world
Massimiliano Trentin, is Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of International and Economic History at the Universities of Padua, and Ca’ Foscari, Venice, in Italy. He focuses on the interplay between international relations and economic development and he authored Engineers of Modern Development for CLEUP, 2011 as well as several articles in scientific journals like “Diplomatic History” and “Cold War History”.
Matteo Gerlini is Research fellow at Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies at the Universiy of Florence, in Italy. His interest focuses on nuclear history as intersection between history of technology and diplomatic history. Among his recent publications are “Waiting for Dimona”, in Cold War History, 2010, Sansone e la Guerra Fredda, Firenze University Press, 2010, “International History of Science and Technology”, Humana.amente, 2011.
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