The Great Powers in the Middle East 1941-1947

First Published in 1981. The objective of this study is to reconstruct the difficulty faced by American and British policy-makers in ΓÇÿdetermining the capabilities and intentionsΓÇÖ of their two main wartime allies regarding the Middle East. Specifically, it seeks to explore the role of great power relations in the Middle East in the breakdown of the wartime alliance and in the origins of the Cold War.