| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Jon B. Alterman. Egypt and American Foreign Assistance, 1952–1956: Hopes Dashed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. Pp. xxiv, 200. $55.00.
Jon B. Alterman's slender and well-written volume adds an important dimension to the extensive literature on U.S.-Egyptian relations in the 1950s. Rather than examining political and strategic factors common in past scholarship, Alterman focuses on issues surrounding U.S. economic aid to Egypt in the four years following the Egyptian revolution of 1952. He contends that such bilateral interaction, not directly related to the Cold War, was important to leaders of both states and thus deserves our attention. Although Alterman's work is based mostly on U.S. archival sources, he consulted Foreign Ministry records in Cairo, perused Egyptian publications, and interviewed former Egyptian officials. Such a binational approach gives this book a balanced perspective that is both unusual and enlightening.	1
Alterman observes that U.S. and Egyptian officials sought to improve their bilateral relationship after the revolution in Cairo on the basis of U.S. foreign assistance programs. In liberal U.S. thinking, foreign aid offered a scientific means to develop Third World states for the common good. From Cairo's point of view, U.S. aid would solve endemic problems besetting the Egyptian people and fulfill the promise of the 1952 revolution. The intersection of such U.S. and Egyptian visions in the early 1950s gave birth to a bilateral relationship that developed, for a while, beyond the influence of the Cold War. While the relationship initially featured hope for cooperation and progress, however, it eventually soured over conflicting ambitions, bureaucratic obstacles, and diplomatic disagreements.	. . .

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