US foreign policy and the multinational force in Lebanon : vigorous self-defense / Corin Varady.
Varady, Corrin, author.
2017
JA1-92
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Title US foreign policy and the multinational force in Lebanon : vigorous self-defense / Corin Varady.
Author Varady, Corrin, author.
ISBN 9783319539737
3319539736
9783319539720
3319539728+
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53973-7
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-53973-7 doi
Call Number JA1-92
Dewey Decimal Classification 320
Summary This book offers a fresh perspective on the impact of the US intervention in Lebanon in 1982 and the decision-making drivers that led the Reagan Administration into the Lebanese Civil War. Based on newly released archival materials from high level Washington officials such as President Reagan, Secretary of State Shultz and Secretary of Defense Weinberger, it argues that the failure of the Reagan Administration to accurately understand the complex political landscape of the Lebanese Civil War resulted in the US-led Multinational Force becoming militarily intertwined in the conflict. This book challenges the notion that Reagan deployed US Marines under the ideals of international peacekeeping, asserting that the US Administration hoped that the Multinational Force would create the political capital that Reagan needed to strengthen the US' position both in the Middle East and globally. Ultimately, the peacemakers were forced to withdraw as they evolved into antagonists. A case study in the foreign policy doctrines of key Washington decision-makers throughout the 1980s, this project is perfect for any International Relations scholar or interested reader seeking to understand the links between the mistakes of the Reagan Administration and contemporary US interventions in the Middle East.
Note Terrorism and Reagan's Response.
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US Foreign Policy and the Multinational Force in Lebanon; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; A Cold War in the Middle East? A Historiography of Reagan, the Soviets and the MNF; Notes; 2 Lebanon: A Crowded State Without a Nation; Mutasarrifiyya: Laying the Foundations of Communalism; The French Mandate: Formalising the Consociational Democracy; The 1958 Crisis: Arab Nationalism, Awakening and Identity; Internal Dynamics of War: The Lebanese Civil War and Sectarianism; External Influences: Syria, Israel and the Palestinians.

The PLO and the Palestinians in LebanonAl-Asad's Desires for Lebanon: Creating a Pax Syriana; Israel's Invasions of Lebanon; Setting the Stage for War; Notes; 3 Discontinuity and Legacy: US Policy in Lebanon and the Middle East; War Powers and Washington's Foreign Policy Construction; The Truman Doctrine: Laying the Foundations for US Middle East Policy; The Eisenhower Doctrine: Curbing Arab Nationalism; The 1958 Lebanon Crisis and Operation Blue Bat; Operation Blue Bat; Courtship, Détente and Dissonance: 1961-1978; Divorce and Courtship: Nasser and Israel; Détente and the Middle East.

Ignoring Lebanon: Carter and Camp DavidLebanon on the Periphery; Operation Litani; The Camp David Accords; Legacy or Discontinuity? Lessons from the Eisenhower and Carter Administrations; Eisenhower: The Military Intervention Precedent; Discontinuity and a 'Neglected' Lebanon: Carter; Notes; 4 Operation Peace for Galilee and the Establishment of the MNFI; Reagan's Refusal to Intervene: The 1981 Zahleh Crisis; 'War of the Katyushas' and the Arab Peace Plan; Operation Peace for Galilee; The Israeli Invasion and the Washington Awakening.

Reagan's Watershed Moment: 'Outrage' Over the Israeli InvasionChanging of the Guard: Israel's Greatest US Ally Resigns; The Decision to Intervene; A United Nations Solution? Mistrust, UNIFIL and the MFO; Birth of the Orca: The MNFI; A Complete Success?; Notes; 5 Return of the Marines and the Multinational Force II; The Killing of Bachir Gemayel and the Sabra and Shatila Massacres; 'Now is the Time for Action': Reconstituting the Multinational Force; Contempt for UNIFIL and the US Transnational Police Force; An Ambiguous Peacekeeping Mandate; Defining Interposition.

The Reagan-Shultz Duality: Force or Ceasefire?The Use of Military Force; The Race for Diplomatic Credibility; The May 17th Agreement; The Hurdle for Peace; Notes; 6 The Soviet-Syrian Alliance and the Battle of Souk el Gharb; A Cold War in Lebanon?; Hafez Al-Assad: The Soviet Client; Escalation Through an 'Aggressive Self-Defence'; The Opportunity Cost: Military Force and the Battle of Souk el Gharb; An Escalated Self-Defence; Notes; 7 The Marine Barracks Bombing and a 'Vigorous Self-Defense'; 'The Worst of All Worlds': The Aftermath of the Marine Barracks Bombing; Terrorism and Reagan's Response.

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