Eisenhower’s doctrine of 1957 and the Middle East curbing international communism or fighting Arab nationalism
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2022
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Université De Larbi Ben M’hidi Oum EL Bouaghi
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This research purports to analyze the U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East during the 1950s with a particular focus on Eisenhower's policy in the region which is referred to as the Eisenhower Doctrine. Historically, Eisenhower Doctrine was represented through providing economic, logistic, and military assistance to any of the Middle Eastern countries which might witness the threat of international communism. This research seeks to unveil realities over the implementation of the Eisenhower Doctrine in the Middle East, it hypotheses that International Communism was a guise to the real motive behind the American foreign policy toward the Middle East. The course of the events showed that the major aim behind the American Policy (Eisenhower Doctrine) was to hinder the growth of Arab Nationalism, its influence and impact on the region. The research came to the conclusion that Eisenhower’s primary aim had never been containing Communist ambitions and that communism did not pose an immediate threat to the United States in the Middle East during the 1950s, the actual threat, however, was Gamal Abdel Nasser’s ideology and its influence. Eisenhower Doctrine was a two facer, restraining Abdel Nasser’s ideology of Arab Nationalism and to a lesser extent, curbing the Communist extension in the region.
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International Communism, Arab Nationalism, Eisenhower doctrine