Guy Laron Livres

Focusing on the complex interplay of politics, economics, and foreign policy, this book explores the lead-up to the 1956 Suez Crisis involving Egypt, Britain, the U.S., and the Soviet Union. Utilizing Arabic sources and multilingual documents from various archives, it presents a comprehensive narrative that highlights the interactions among all key players, moving beyond the traditional British and U.S. viewpoints to offer a more nuanced understanding of the crisis's origins and implications.

An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. As we approach its fiftieth anniversary, Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted belief that the war was merely the result of regional friction, revealing the crucial roles played by American and Soviet policies in the face of an encroaching global economic crisis, and restoring Syria's often overlooked centrality to events leading up to the hostilities. The Six-Day War effectively sowed the seeds for the downfall of Arab nationalism, the growth of Islamic extremism, and the animosity between Jews and Palestinians. In this important new work, Laron's fresh interdisciplinary perspective and extensive archival research offer a significant reassessment of a conflict--and the trigger-happy generals behind it--that continues to shape the modern world.