Jordan on the Brink, 1955-57: Britain, America, and the Survival of the Jordanian Monarchy
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Jesse R. Weinberg
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Roberts, Hugh
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Tufts University
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2015
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81
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Committee members: Mufti, Malik; Warde, Ibrahim
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-77208-1
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M.A.
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History
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Tufts University
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2015
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This paper will examine the dramatic changes in Jordanian politics from 1955 to 1957. Jordan, as a state created in the aftermath of the First World War, as a British backed client monarchy, without any unified political or cultural identity was extremely susceptible to the subversive influences of Arab Nationalism, and more specifically Nasserism during the 1950's. As a result, Jordan was placed in the middle of two linked conflicts, the Arab Cold War, between Gamal Abdel Nasser and his allies on the one hand and the pro-Western Arab monarchies on the other, and the wider Cold War, between the West and the Soviet Union.