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DEMISE OF THE BRITISH
EMPIRE IN THE
MIDDLE EAST

To the memory of our parents

DEMISE OF THE
BRITISH EMPIRE IN
THE MIDDLE EAST

Britain's Responses to
Nationalist Movements
194355

Edited by

MICHAEL J. COHEN and

MARTIN KOLINSKY

First Published in 1998 in Great Britain by
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN
270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016

Transferred to Digital Printing 2011

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Copyright of collection 1998 Routledge & Co. Ltd.
Copyright of articles 1998 contributors

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East: Britain's responses to
nationalist movements, 1943-55
1. National liberationmovements-MiddleEast - History
2. GreatBritain - Colonies - Asia 3. Great Britain
I. Cohen, Michael J. (Michael Joseph), 1940- II. Kolinsky,
Martin
322.4'2'0956'09044

ISBN 0-7146-4804-3 (cloth)
ISBN 0-7146-4477-3 (paper)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East: Britain's responses to
nationalist movements, 1943-55 / edited by Michael J. Cohen and Martin
Kolinsky.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-7146-4804-3 (cloth) 0-7146-4477-3 (paper)
1. GreatBritain-Foreignrelations-Middle East. 2. Middle East
Foreignrelations-GreatBritain. 3. GreatBritain-Politicsand
government-1945- 4. MiddleEastPoliticsand government-1945
5.NationalismMiddleEast. I. Cohen, Michael Joseph, 1940
II. Kolinsky, Martin.
DS63.2.G7D46 1998
327.41056-dc21 98-14415
CIP

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher of this book.

Typeset by Vitaset, Paddock Wood, Kent

Publisher's Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint
but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent.

Contents

NICHOLAS OWEN

MICHAEL J. COHEN

MICHAEL THORNHILL

RODNEY WILSON

BRUCE MADDY-WEITZMAN

MARTIN KOLINSKY

CHARLES TRIPP

JOHN KENT

PETER L. HAHN

MICHAEL EPPEL

ILAN PAPP

AVRAHAM SELA

Notes on the contributors

Michael J. Cohen holds the Lazarus Philips Chair in History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. In 1998 he was appointed a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His latest books are Truman and Israel (1990), and Fighting World War Three from the Middle East: Allied Contingency Plans,1945 54 (1997). He also co-edited a volume with Martin Kolinsky, Britain and the Middle East in the 1930s (1992).

Michael Eppel is Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa, Israel. His publications include The Palestine Conflict in the History of Modern Iraq (1994).

Peter L. Hahn is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University, and associate editor of Diplomatic History. He is author of The United States, Great Britain and Egypt,1945 1956 (1991) and several articles on Anglo-American relations and US policy in the Middle East. He is currently writing a major monograph on US policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict through 1967.

John Kent is Reader in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His publications include The Inter-nationalization of Colonialism: Britain, Trance and Black Africa,1939 1956 (1992), and British Imperial Strategy and the Origins of the Cold War,1944 1949 (1993). He has recently completed a three-volume study of Egypt and the Defence of the Middle East1945 56 as part of the British Documents on the End of Empire project, to be published by the Stationery Office in 1998.

Martin Kolinsky is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham. His latest books are Law, Order and Riots in Mandatory Palestine,1928 1935 (1993), and, co-edited with Michael J. Cohen, Britain and the Middle East in the 1930s (1992). His next book is on British Policy towards the Middle East during the Second World War.

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman is Senior Research Associate at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. His publications include The Crystallization of the Arab State System,1945 1954 (1993), and he edited, with Efraim Inbar, Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East (1997). He is editor of Middle East Contemporary Survey (annual).

Nicholas Owen is Praelector in Politics and University Lecturer at Queen's College, Oxford. He is author of several articles on aspects of decoloni-zation in British politics and his book on the Labour Party and Indian Independence is to be published by the Clarendon Press.

Ilan Pappe is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Haifa University, and the academic head of the Institute for Peace Research at Givat Haviva, Israel. He is author of Britain and the Arab- Israeli Conflict,1948 1951 (1988) and The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict,1947 1951 (1992). He is co-editor, with J. Nevo, of Jordan: The Making of a Pivotal State (1995), and, with M. Maoz, of Ideas and Politics in the Middle East (1997).

Avraham Sela is Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the Department of International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of Unity within Conflict: The Arab Summit Conferences1964 1982 (1982), and The Palestinian Ba'th: The Arab Ba'th Socialist Party in the West Bank under Jordan1948 1967 (1984), both in Hebrew. His forthcoming books are The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and, as co-editor with Moshe Ma'oz, The PLO and Israel: From Armed Struggle to Political Settlement.

Michael Thornhill completed a DPhil in Modern History at the University of Oxford in 1995. His thesis on Britain and the Egyptian Question,1950 54 is being published by Macmillan. In1995 96, he held a Lectureship at Keble College, Oxford, and is currently Research Coordinator on the

Michael Thornhill completed a DPhil in Modern History at the University of Oxford in 1995. His thesis on Britain and the Egyptian Question, 1950-54 is being published by Macmillan. In 1995-96, he held a Lectureship at Keble College, Oxford, and is currently Research Coordinator on theNew Dictionary of National Biography.

Charles Tripp is Senior Lecturer in Politics with reference to the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is co-author (with Shahram Chubin) of Iran and Iraq at War (1988) and Iran-Saudi Arabia Relations and Regional Order

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