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Nigel J. Ashton

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According to Wikipedia, Nigel J. Ashton is professor of international history at the London School of Economics. He is a specialist in contemporary Anglo-American relations and the modern history of the Middle East. His book, Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War: the Irony of Interdependence won the Cambridge Donner Book Prize for excellence in advancing scholarly understanding of transatlantic relations.

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Nigel J. Ashton's Published Works

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Eisenhower, Macmillan and the Problem of Nasser (1996) (34)
King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life (2008) (27)
Eisenhower, Macmillan and the Problem of Nasser: Anglo-American Relations and Arab Nationalism, 1955-59 (1996) (26)
Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War (2002) (23)
Harold Macmillan and the “Golden Days” of Anglo-American Relations Revisited, 1957–63 (2005) (23)
Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War: The Irony of Interdependence (2002) (19)
‘A great new venture'? ‐Anglo‐American cooperation in the Middle East and the response to the Iraqi revolution July 1958 (1993) (17)
A MICROCOSM OF DECLINE: BRITISH LOSS OF NERVE AND MILITARY INTERVENTION IN JORDAN AND KUWAIT, 1958 AND 1961 (1997) (17)
For King and Country: Jack O'Connell, the CIA, and the Arab‐Israeli Conflict, 1963–71 (2012) (17)
The Cold War in the Middle East : Regional Conflict and the Superpowers 1967-73 (2007) (15)
Britain and the Kuwaiti crisis, 1961 (1998) (13)
The hijacking of a pact: the formation of the Baghdad Pact and Anglo-American tensions in the Middle East, 1955—1958 (1993) (13)
‘A “Special Relationship” sometimes in spite of ourselves’: Britain and Jordan, 1957–73 (2005) (10)
The Congo Crisis (2002) (9)
Love's Labours Lost: Margaret Thatcher, King Hussein and Anglo–Jordanian Relations, 1979–1990 (2011) (7)
The Iran-Iraq War : new international perspectives (2013) (6)
Macmillan and the Middle East (1996) (6)
Unspoken allies : Anglo-Dutch relations since 1780 (2001) (6)
Searching for a Just and Lasting Peace? Anglo-American Relations and the Road to United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 (2016) (6)
Pulling the Strings: King Hussein's Role during the Crisis of 1970 in Jordan (2006) (5)
Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War (2004) (5)
The Genesis of the Falklands (Malvinas) Conflict (2013) (5)
Hanging the Kaiser: Anglo‐Dutch relations and the fate of Wilhelm II, 1918–20 (2000) (4)
Anglo-American revival and empire during the Macmillan years, 1957-63 (2006) (4)
The Genesis of the Falklands (Malvinas) Conflict: Argentina, Britain and the Failed Negotiations of the 1960s (2013) (3)
The Iraqi Revolution (1996) (3)
King Hussein of Jordan (2017) (3)
Cold War Political Theater (2009) (2)
British Military Intervention and the Struggle for Jordan: King Hussein, Nasser and the Middle East Crisis, 1955–1958 (review) (2010) (2)
Cold War, hot war, and civil war: King Hussein and Jordan's regional role, 1967-1973 (2007) (2)
Taking Friends for Granted: The Carter Administration, Jordan, and the Camp David Accords, 1977–1980 (2017) (2)
Twentieth Century Diplomacy: A Case Study of British Practice, 1963–1976. By John W. Young. (2009) (2)
The Peculiar Relationship (2020) (1)
‘A Local Terrorist Made Good’: the Callaghan government and the Arab–Israeli peace process, 1977–79 (2017) (1)
Review Article : The Gulf War (1995) (1)
The Middle East: intractable conflict?: Jordan’s unavoidable stake in the Middle East peace process (2009) (1)
15 Managing Transition: Macmillan and the Utility of Anglo- American Relations (1999) (1)
Uncertain decade: Us-Soviet relations, 1961-68 (2003) (1)
The Formation of the United Arab Republic (1996) (0)
Book review: in the name of oil: Anglo-American relations in the Middle East, 1950-1958 - by Ivan L. G. Pearson (2011) (0)
J. Nevo, King Hussein and the Evolution of Jordan's Perception of a Political Settlement with Israel, 1967–1988 M. Shemesh, Arab Politics, Palestinian Nationalism and the Six Day War: The Crystallization of Arab Strategy and Nasir's Descent to War, 1957–1967 (2008) (0)
INTRODUCTION: A CONTESTED DESTINY (2017) (0)
Churchill and the Anglo-American special relationship (2018) (0)
The Syrian Crisis and the October 1957 Talks (1996) (0)
Postscript: The Kuwaiti Crisis and the Break-up of the United Arab Republic (1996) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
The Eisenhower Doctrine (1996) (0)
James R. Stocker. Spheres of Intervention: US Foreign Policy and the Collapse of Lebanon, 1967–1976. (2017) (0)
David Reynolds: Studies in Competitive Co-operation (2022) (0)
Reviews of Books (1980) (0)
Introduction: The Cold War in the Middle East, 1967–73 (2007) (0)
CHAPTER 1 THE TRAGEDY OF KING TALAL (2017) (0)
Y. Alon, (2009). The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialism and the Modern State (2011) (0)
Post-Revolutionary Iraq and the Reassessment of American and British Strategy (1996) (0)
The Decision for Negotiations (2013) (0)
Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Culture (2022) (0)
The Search for a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (2002) (0)
Book review: Three kings: the rise of an American empire in the Middle East after World War II (2011) (0)
The Laotian Crisis (2002) (0)
Stephen Blackwell, British Military Intervention and the Struggle for Jordan: King Hussein, Nasser and the Middle East Crisis, 19551958 (2010) (0)
British policy and Qaddafi's Libya: landmark victory in the battle for information rights (2018) (0)
France’s involvement in the Iran–Iraq War PIERRE RAzOUX (2013) (0)
Ivan L. G. Pearson, In the Name of Oil: Anglo-American Relations in the Middle East, 1950–1958 (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010, £55.00/$74.95). Pp. xi+263. isbn 978 1 84519 388 1. (2011) (0)
A rearguard action: Harold Macmillan and the making of British foreign policy, 1957-1963 (2002) (0)
Anglo-Dutch relations and the Kaiser Question, 1918-20 (2001) (0)
Britain, Nasser and the balance of power in the Middle East, 1952-1977: from the Eygptian revolution to the six day war (2004) (0)
The Lebanese Crisis (1996) (0)
Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the French Problem, 1960–1963: A Troubled Partnership Constantine A. Pagedas (2000) (0)
The EEC Application (2002) (0)
Book review: missions accomplished?: the United States and Iraq since World War I (2012) (0)
CHAPTER 2 BREAKING THE BRITISH CONNECTION, 1953–6 (2017) (0)
Graham Jevon, Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion: Britain, Jordan and the End of Empire in the Middle East (2019) (0)
Kennedy, Europe and the Cold War (2019) (0)
The Course and Conclusion of British and American Intervention (1996) (0)
The Bermuda Conference and the April 1957 Crisis in Jordan (1996) (0)
CHAPTER 10 DISENGAGEMENT AND DISILLUSIONMENT, 1973–7 (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 13 FISHING IN THE DEAD SEA: KING HUSSEIN AND THE PEACE PROCESS, 1980–89 (2017) (0)
British Policy in the Persian Gulf, 1961-1968: Conceptions of Informal Empire by Helene von Bismarck (review) (2013) (0)
Review: Eisenhower, Macmillan and Allied Unity, 1957–61 (2005) (0)
“Be Innocent of the Knowledge … till thou Applaud the Deed” (2010) (0)
The Middle East in 1955 (1996) (0)
John F. Kennedy and Harold Macmillan: Dependence and Interdependence (2022) (0)
Interdependence and the British Nuclear Deterrent (2002) (0)
Notes on contributors (2000) (0)
Money and Cold War Security (2005) (0)
March 1956 and the Break with Nasser (1996) (0)
The Suez Crisis (1996) (0)
Introduction: the Iran-Iraq War: new international perspectives (2012) (0)
Reviews (2007) (0)
The Middle East: intractable conflict? (2009) (0)
The Castro Question and the Cuban Missile Crisis (2002) (0)
List of referees for volume 17 (2004) (0)
Time, Life, Luce (2020) (0)
Hitler on the Nile?: British and American perceptions of the Nasser regime, 1952-70 (2013) (0)
The Berlin Crisis (2002) (0)
Reviews of Books (1976) (0)
The Background to the Formation of the Baghdad Pact (1996) (0)
Jordan’s frustration with the Middle East peace process (2010) (0)

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