عنوان

Neoliberal Modernizers: The American Friends of the Middle East and Its Subversion of Arab Nationalism, 1951-67

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Neoliberal Modernizers: The American Friends of the Middle East and Its Subversion of Arab Nationalism, 1951-67

[Thesis]

Nick Grover

Brison, Jeffrey

Queen's University (Canada)

2018

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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor;

M.A.

Queen's University (Canada)

2018

The American Friends of the Middle East (AFME) was a civil society organization that operated various cultural and technical programs in the Middle East. This thesis analyzes its activities and interactions with Arab states, particularly Egypt, during the early Cold War era. The AFME was committed to an agenda of neoliberal modernization. Its operations aimed to improve the political, economic, and cultural conditions of the Middle East via integration into the US orbit. The American private sector, rather than state actors, would oversee this process. The AFME broke with the foreign policy orthodoxy of the US state while subverting the postcolonial ambitions of Nasserist pan-Arabism by facilitating the expansion of US corporate development in the Middle East. Arab nationalism was committed to neutrality and economic sovereignty, neither of which the AFME respected, despite its professed commitment to friendship and understanding with the strategically vital Middle East.

Middle Eastern history; International Relations

(UMI)AAI10857299;Social sciences;Egypt

Bevers, Michael

Brison, Jeffrey

Queen's University (Canada)

2054014400; 10857299

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[Thesis]

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