The Failure of American and British Propaganda in the Arab Middle East, 1945–1957

Unconquerable Minds

J. Vaughan

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9781403947147
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230802773
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

Using recently declassified sources, this book provides the first detailed analysis of British and American propaganda targeting the countries of the Middle East during the years of increasing international tension and regional instability immediately following the end of the Second World War. Considering British and American propaganda within the framework of the Cold War crusade against Communism and the Soviet Union, and the developing confrontations between Arab nationalism and the West, the book investigates the central questions of Anglo-American partnership and rivalry in the period when primary responsibility for 'policing' the Middle East passed from one to the other.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: The Business of Climate – Propaganda as the Fourth Dimension of Foreign Policy
• 1 ‘The Men and Machinery’: Building the Middle Eastern Propaganda Instrument
• 2 ‘Western Voices, Arab Minds’: Orientalism, Stereotypes and Propaganda in the Middle East
• 3 ‘National Projection’: Cultural Propaganda and the Cold War
• 4 ‘Who Can Be Neutral?’: Anti-Communism and Cold War Propaganda in the Middle East
• 5 ‘The Less Said the Better’: Western Propaganda and the Arab–Israeli Dispute, 1945–56
• 6 ‘Equal Partners’?: Propaganda, Anglo-American Rivalry and the Nationalist Challenge
• 7 ‘The Last Trump’: Anti-Egyptian Propaganda from ‘Omega’ to the Eisenhower Doctrine
• Conclusion: The Failure of Western Propaganda in the Middle East
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index