A model of policy analysis, Arms Transfers under Nixon provides
a lucid and lively demonstration of how the Nixon administration
combined skillful diplomacy and the adroit use of arms transfers to
bring about a remarkable series of American foreign policy
achievements. The Middle East provides the most dramatic example.
Here, the Arab-Israeli military balance was stabilized, Egypt was
persuaded and enabled to forsake its heavy dependence upon the
Soviet Union, conditions favorable to peace negotiations were
arranged, and important interim agreements were brokered by the
United States.
In the Persian Gulf, the promotion of Iran and Saudi Arabia as
effective guarantors of regional stability in the wake of British
withdrawal, and maintaining the pro-Western orientation of these
governments, are shown to have been essential to crucial United
States and Western interests. The dramatic reversal with the
collapse of the Shah's government is assessed, as are the causes of
that post-Nixon debacle.
The battles that accompanied the administration's initiatives --
battles with hostile nations, with allies, with the Congress, and
even within the administration -- and the diplomatic and political
moves by which opposition was overcome provide the stuff of an
exciting and instructive narrative.
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