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American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region
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W. Taylor Fain to MESH:
I hope that my study leaves the reader with an appreciation that the record of U.S.-British diplomacy in the Persian Gulf region is a complex and often troubled one. It’s marked by tension and littered with important failures as frequently as it is characterized by lasting successes. But it rewards close examination. It underscores the formidable difficulties even the closest allies confront in establishing cooperative policies, and I hope it illuminates an important chapter in the history of Western diplomacy on the Cold War’s periphery during the era of European imperial retreat.
I hope that my study leaves the reader with an appreciation that the record of U.S.-British diplomacy in the Persian Gulf region is a complex and often troubled one. It’s marked by tension and littered with important failures as frequently as it is characterized by lasting successes. But it rewards close examination. It underscores the formidable difficulties even the closest allies confront in establishing cooperative policies, and I hope it illuminates an important chapter in the history of Western diplomacy on the Cold War’s periphery during the era of European imperial retreat.
Product Description
This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintegration of British imperial authority in the Gulf that eventually led it to assume its current role in the region.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2567032 in Books
- Published on: 2008-06-15
- Released on: 2008-07-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 292 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Fain's book is . . . a welcome addition to the literature. His work is in many ways an impressive achievement, particularly in the ways that the author demonstrates control of an enormous body of primary source material as well as familiarity with most, if not all, of the secondary scholarship . . .
Fain has made a significant contribution to our understanding of Anglo-American relations in the Persian Gulf, and his work will probably be mandatory reading for all scholars in this field."
--The American Historical Review
"In many ways an impressive book, being erudite, well written, and extensively researched . . . W. Taylor Fain has produced a significant book that will add to the growing literature on Anglo-American relations and the end of empire in the Persian Gulf."
--International Journal of Middle East Studies
"Encompassing two turbulent decades of Anglo-American cooperation and rivalry in the Persian Gulf region, W. Taylor Fain's well researched and briskly paced monograph ably fills a gap in the current historiography on western policy towards the Middle East during the Cold War."
--Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
"American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Region is a well-written and -researched account of Anglo-American policy in the Persian Gulf from the end of the Second World War until the British withdrawal from east of Suez. It is a tale of personalities and administrations engaged in confrontation as well as cooperation, spun against the backdrop of an ever-more strategically important region plagued by both age-old and newer post-colonial quarrels."
--Michael A. Palmer, author of Guardians of the Gulf
"This comprehensive and well-written book illuminates current issues without falling into the trap of present-mindedness, and it fills an important gap in the literature. Drawing on extensive archival sources and demonstrating a firm command of the secondary literature, Fain provides a clear account of policy-making in both the United States and Great Britain. His deep knowledge of both nations' policies enables him to present a nuanced account of the differences as well as the similarities in US and British policies toward the region."
--David S. Painter, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University
--David S. Painter, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University
About the Author
W. Taylor Fain is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
