BLÍZKY VÝCHOD AKO REGIONÁLNE BOJISKO STUDENEJ VOJNY NA ZAČIATKU ŠESTDESIATYCH ROKOV 20. STOROČIA

• Authors: Sorby Karol

Title variants

EN

Middle East as a regional battlefield of the Cold War at the beginning of the 1960s

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The Kennedy Administration came to power convinced that its predecessor had demonstrated an appalling lack of imagination in its attitude toward the Third World nationalists like Gamal Abdel Nasser. Seen from the perspective of the New Frontier, the Eisenhower Administration's reluctance to accept nonalignment in the Cold War had created widespread opportunities for the spread of Soviet influence in the developing world. Two weeks before Kennedy took office, Khrushchev had publicly endorsed 'wars of national liberation' in the Third World. It seemed that the Soviets, by exploiting American inflexibility and by shrewdly distributing military and economic aid and political support to the Third World nationalists, had secured a commanding position on what had become the critical battleground between East and West.

Keywords

EN

COLD WAR; EGYPT; GAMAL ABDEL NASSER HUSSEIN; MIDDLE EAST; POLICY; SOVIET UNION; UNITED STATES

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 61-80
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sorby Karol

• doc. PhDr. Karol R. Sorby, DrSc., Ustav orientalistiky SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA090512