This study discusses how such dictators as Qaddafi, Khomeini, Marcos, Somoza, and Castro, among others, achieved power, how they justified their rule, and how they changed the character of the U.N

Modern Dictators: Third World Coup Makers, Strongmen, and Populist Tyrants

Politics & Social Sciences

Rubin, Barry M.

Politics & Government

McGraw=Hill

Recounts the dramatic and convoluted history of Istanbul during the Second World War, a city that while ostensibly neutral also teemed with spies from all sides

Istanbul Intrigues/a True-Life Casablanca

History

Americas

Discusses America's tangled role in the Middle East and traces the roots of the Persian Gulf War back to the oil boom days of the 1970s

Cauldron of Turmoil: America in the Middle East

Harcourt

Critically examines the fifty-year American-Iranian relationship with the hindsight of Iran's recent revolution, detailing how the good intentions of both America's foreign policy and the Shah's reform efforts went awry

Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience and Iran

Oxford University Press

Examines how internal politics influenced the involvement of Arab nations in Palestine prior to 1948, and describes their actions in opposition to the creation of a Jewish state

The Arab States and the Palestine Conflict

Syracuse Univ Pr

Draws on interviews and newly opened archives to reveal the intrigues, conspiracies, and betrayals that made Istanbul the espionage center of World War II

Istanbul Intrigues

Middle East

Pharos Books

Radical Middle East States and U.S. Policy (Policy Papers)

Washington Inst for Near East Pol

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