2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of the Multi-Layered Relations between the United States and the Middle East in the Early Cold War Years
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21520744
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
ONOZAWA Toru 京都大学, 大学院・文学研究科, 准教授 (90271832)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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| Keywords | アメリカ合衆国 / 中東 / イギリス / 国際関係 / 石油 |
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| Research Abstract |
Scrutinizing the development of U.S.-Middle Eastern as well as Anglo-American relations over the region in the 1950s, this study presents an alternative perspective to the conventional one that considers the Suez crisis of 1956 as a watershed when regional hegemony shifted from the United Kingdom to the United States. Notwithstanding recurrent conflicts over specific tactics to be taken vis-a-vis Middle Eastern countries, policymakers of both the U.S. and the U.K pursued a largely overlapping regional objective of constructing a pro-Western alliance system in the region until 1958, when the Iraqi revolution forced them to abandon such a goal. Afterwards, policymakers in the two countries ceased to recognize Middle Eastern states as potential allies, and instead dealt with them as objects to be maneuvered in their off-shore balancing acts devised to pursue the newly-defined primary objective of an uninterrupted flow of petroleum from the region.
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