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Sold Out? Us Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War
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Sold Out? Us Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War Hardcover - 2015

by Bryan R. Gibson


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This book analyzes the ways in which US policy toward Iraq was dictated by America's broader Cold War strategy between 1958 and 1975. While most historians have focused on "hot" Cold War conflicts such as Cuba, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, few have recognized Iraq's significance as a Cold War battleground. This book argues that US decisions and actions were designed to deny the Soviet Union influence over Iraq and to create a strategic base in the oil-rich Gulf region. Using newly available primary sources and interviews, this book reveals new details on America's decision-making toward and actions against Iraq during the height of the Cold War and shows where Iraq fits into the broader historiography of the Cold War in the Middle East. Further, it raises important questions about widely held misconceptions of US-Iraqi relations, such as the CIA's alleged involvement in the 1963 Ba'thist coup and the theory that the US sold out the Kurds in 1975.

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  • Title Sold Out? Us Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War
  • Author Bryan R. Gibson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 257
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
  • Date 2015-05-20
  • ISBN 9781137487117 / 1137487119
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6 x 0.8 in (23.62 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Cold War, United States - Foreign relations - Iraq
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014045757
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.730

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Bryan R. Gibson holds a PhD in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is the author of Covert Relationship: American Foreign Policy, Intelligence and the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 and co-editor of The Iran-Iraq War: New International Perspectives.
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