Accommodating to a working relationship: Arab Nationalism and US Cold War policies in the Middle East, 1958–60Footnote

Roland Popp is Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH in Zurich. His research focuses on Cold War history, the politics of nuclear proliferation and the international history of the Middle East.

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