| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5 | The History Cooperative

Michael J. Cohen. Strategy and Politics in the Middle East, 1954–1960: Defending the Northern Tier. New York: Frank Cass. 2005. Pp. xiii, 272. $65.00.
Michael J. Cohen has published eight books, edited another, co-edited two more, and published fourteen volumes of documents about the Middle East, Britain, and the United States in the middle decades of the twentieth century. He knows the archival and secondary sources. This volume is the second of two he has written on British and U.S. contingency planning in the Middle East during the early years of the Cold War. The first volume, Fighting World War Three from the Middle East, 1945–1954: Allied Contingency Plans, was published in 1997. In his introduction to this second volume, Cohen states that the two books stand as a single work or may be read as distinct entities. Only the second one is reviewed here.	1
The book begins in 1954, when Britain signed the Anglo-Egyptian Agreement to withdraw from Egypt, where some British 50,000 troops, at a cost of 50 million pounds per year, comprised what was then Britain's biggest military base. The book ends in 1960, after the Eisenhower administration set up the Central Treaty Organization, which linked up with the North Atlantic and South East Asia Treaty Organizations, largely based on nuclear deterrence.	. . .

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