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A 4 page paper review of Salim Yaqub’s book “Containing Arab Nationalism.” Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
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lies in American as well as international history (Department of Asian Studies, 2005). His focus, in many ways, is how the United States is involved in the Middle East since
the year 1945 (Department of Asian Studies, 2005). His work "Containing Arab Nationalism: Yaqub specializes in American and international history, with a particular focus on U.S. involvement in the Middle
East since 1945. His book, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East" is a book that illustrates many things about the United States involvement in the Middle
East with Arab nations. The following paper provides a review of this work. Containing Arab Nationalism In todays world many people may begin to wonder what the policies
have been in the past as they relate to the Middle East and the United States. Salim Yaqubs book is one that seeks to answer some questions about past relationships,
focusing on the Eisenhower Doctrine since it was really the first step in creating solid relationships with the Middle East. Yaqub, first off, intends to present the reader with a
thorough examination of the Doctrine and all the issues surrounding it during a particular time period. His argument is that the Doctrine was not really set up to help
the Arab nations but to keep communist Russia out of the Middle East. So, while the Doctrine, outwardly, encouraged economic and military reliance on the United States it also made
a point of ostracizing the Egyptian president at the time, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Through offering assistance to other Middle East nations it was hoped that the Arabs would side with
the United States and thus push Egyptian radicalism out. This would also ensure that the Middle East, during the Cold War, would not fall under Communist power. This is the
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