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Diplomacy at the Brink - Eisenhower, Churchill, and Eden in the Cold War (Hardcover)
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Diplomacy at the Brink - Eisenhower, Churchill, and Eden in the Cold War (Hardcover)
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A groundbreaking new study of Anglo-American relations during the
Cold War, Diplomacy at the Brink argues for a reevaluation of
Dwight D. Eisenhower's foreign policy toward allies and enemies
alike. Contrary to his reputation as a level-headed moderate, the
Eisenhower who emerges in David M. Watry's exhaustively researched
book is a conservative ideologue, a leader whose aggressively
anti-Communist and anticolonialist foreign policies represented a
major shift away from the containment policy of the Truman
presidency. Watry contends that Eisenhower worked closely with John
Foster Dulles to engage in aggressive brinksmanship that
diametrically opposed Winston Churchill's diplomacy of ""peaceful
coexistence."" At a time when British economic interests favored
cooperation with China, Eisenhower planned nuclear war against it;
when Anthony Eden considered Gamal Abdel Nasser a Soviet agent and
invaded Egypt, Eisenhower supported Arab nationalism and used
economic and political blackmail to force Britain to withdraw. Such
stances fractured the ""special relationship"" between America and
Great Britain and played a vital role in the dissolution of the
British Empire. Watry's thorough examination of the important clash
of U.S.-U.K. foreign policy demonstrates that America's new
anti-colonial policies and the unilateral use of American power
against perceived Communist threats put Eisenhower and Dulles on a
collision course with Churchill and Eden that rocked the world.
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