Nigel Ashton
Biographic Data
| ID | 5365976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nigel Ashton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nigel |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashton |
| SIGNATURE | ASHTON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Thatcher Government and the Libyan Campaign Against Dissidents in the United Kingdom, 1979–84
Between 1979 and 1984, the Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi waged a campaign of violence against exiled dissidents resident in Britain. The campaign included assassinations, bombings, arson and an attempted poisoning. It culminated in the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher who was policing an anti-Qaddafi demonstration outside the Libyan Embassy in London in April 1984. This campaign posed serious dilemmas for the Thatcher government. On the o…
Annie Tracy Samuel. The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War
Journal Article Annie Tracy Samuel. The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Get access Annie Tracy Samuel. The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii, 302. Cloth $99.99. Nigel Ashton Nigel Ashton London School of Economics and Political Science, England Email: [email protected] Sea…
David Reynolds
David Reynolds’s concept of ‘competitive cooperation’, advanced in his book The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance: A Study in Competitive Cooperation, 1937–1941, has been highly influential in the historiography of contemporary international history. During his career Reynolds has enriched and developed the concept, pushing the bounds of the discipline to encompass insights from cultural and social history. He has also advanced well beyond …
Time, Life, Luce
Growing up in China, as the son of Presbyterian missionaries, the young Henry Luce, later the publisher and owner of Time Inc., developed an extraordinary drive for achievement that would characterize the whole of his later life. But it was perhaps significant that once the adolescent Luce was dispatched by his parents to a boarding school at Chefoo, which he hated, that he should devote his attention in particular to “besting the British boys wh…
Graham Jevon, Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion
Churchill and the Anglo-American special relationship
Taking Friends for Granted
4 Several broader studies of the reign of King Hussein and of U.S.-Jordanian relations have taken similarly negative views of the Carter administration's approach. 5 In a recent, positive assessment of the administration's achievements at Camp David, Jeremy Pressman represents Hussein as a key proponent of what he terms the most negative assessment of Camp David: that it was "an American-Israeli conspiracy to prevent Palestinian self-determinatio…
James R. Stocker. Spheres of Intervention
If there is one word that sums up the foreign policy of successive U.S. administrations toward Lebanon during the decade before the outbreak of that country’s tragic civil war, it is “neglect.” For the bulk of this period, U.S. attention was directed elsewhere in the region. As James R. Stocker shows in this clearly written and careful study, this U.S. neglect stood in stark contrast to the perception of U.S. interference held by many Lebanese th…
A Local Terrorist Made Good’
The British government had played an important role during the 1950s and 1960s as a mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict, most notably through the development of Project Alpha between 1954 and 1956, and through the negotiation of United Nations Security Council resolution 242 in 1967. Between 1977 and 1979, British Prime Minister James Callaghan played a supporting role to US President Jimmy Carter as he negotiated the Camp David Accords of 1978…
Searching for a Just and Lasting Peace? Anglo-American Relations and the Road to United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 of 22 November 1967 continues to rank as a key point of reference for the Arab-Israeli peace process. The resolution laid down a 'land for peace' formula for the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, under which Israel would withdraw from territories occupied during the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War in exchange for full peace agreements with her Arab neighbours. This article analyses the Anglo-Americ…
The Iran-Iraq War
1. Introduction, Nigel Ashton and Bryan Gibson Part I: Waging the War 2. Lessons Learned: Civil Military Relations during the Iran-Iraq War and its influence on the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 Iraq War, Ibrahim Al-Marashi 3. Saddam and the Iran-Iraq War: Rule from the Top, Williamson Murray and Kevin Woods 4. Mustazafin and Taghutti: Iran and the War, 1980-1988, Rob Johnson Part II: Economic Dimensions of the War 5. The True Role of Oil in the Outcome…
For King and Country
Jack O’Connell, who served as CIA Station Chief in Jordan between 1963 and 1971, was a unique and remarkable figure in the contemporary history of United States involvement in the Middle East. He established a closer personal relationship with King Hussein than any other foreigner before or since. Subsequently he went on to serve as the King's attorney-at-law in the United States and as his informal diplomatic adviser. This article explores O’Con…
Love's Labours Lost
Relations between Britain and Jordan underwent a revival during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher between 1979 and 1990. Although no longer the dominant power in the Middle East, Britain's membership of the European Economic Community and the close relations between Prime Minister Thatcher and President Reagan meant that Britain was seen by King Hussein as an influential power to be courted. Thatcher shared Hussein's views about the Arab-Israe…
Stephen Blackwell, British Military Intervention and the Struggle for Jordan
Cold War Political Theater
Journal Article Cold War Political Theater Get access Daum Andreas W., Kennedy in Berlin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxii + 294pp.Notes, illustrations, bibliography, index. $70.00 (cloth), $23.99 (paper). Nigel J. Ashton Nigel J. Ashton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 33, Issue 3, June 2009, Pages 535–538, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00789.x Publishe…
Twentieth Century Diplomacy
Journal Article Twentieth Century Diplomacy: A Case Study of British Practice, 1963–1976. By John W. Young. Get access Twentieth Century Diplomacy: A Case Study of British Practice, 1963–1976. By John W. Young. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008. xi+244 pp. ISBN 978-0-5218-3916-7, £55. Nigel J. Ashton Nigel J. Ashton London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
King Hussein of Jordan
Pulling the Strings
(2006). Pulling the Strings: King Hussein's Role during the Crisis of 1970 in Jordan. The International History Review: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 94-118
Money and Cold War Security
Reflecting on the details of the negotiations required to secure British entry into the European Economic Community in August 1962, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan vented his frustration in a private letter to his close friend Ava, Viscountess Waverley. “Mine is a vision of [the] ... future,” he wrote, if only “we can get away from negotiations on the price of eggs and pig meat.”1 No doubt some diplomatic historians would react in the same way to…
Harold Macmillan and the "Golden Days" of Anglo-American Relations Revisited, 1957-63
To swell a progress, start a scene
A “Special Relationship” sometimes in spite of ourselves’
In view of Britain's role in the creation and development of Jordan, bilateral relations in the wake of the Suez crisis are an important test case of its continuing engagement, not only in the Levant, but in the Middle East as a whole. This article shows that despite the far-reaching changes which took place in British foreign policy between 1957 and 1973, Britain retained a significant bilateral relationship with the Hashemite Kingdom. Through a…
Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War
John Dumbrell, A Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations in the Cold War and After, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2001; pp. vii + 258; ISBN 0 333 62250 2 Jonathan Hollowell (ed.), Twentieth Century Anglo-American Relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001; pp. x + 206; ISBN 0 333 80404 X Matthew Jones, Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965: Britain, the United States, Indonesia and the Creation of Malaysia, Cambridge, Cambridge Un…
Uncertain decade
Hanging the Kaiser
The flight of the German Kaiser to the Netherlands at the end of the First World War led to a crisis in Anglo‐Dutch relations. Prime Minister David Lloyd George made the trial of the Kaiser a key issue in the British general election campaign of December 1918. Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles called for the Kaiser's surrender by the Netherlands government for trial before an international tribunal, a request the Dutch repeatedly refused du…
Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the French Problem, 1960-1963
Journal Article Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the French Problem, 1960–1963: A Troubled Partnership Constantine A. Pagedas Get access Nigel J. Ashton Nigel J. Ashton London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1370–1371, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1370 Published: 01 November 200…
Britain and the Kuwaiti crisis, 1961
The Kuwaiti crisis of 1961 has conventionally been accorded little attention in histories of Britain's role in the Middle East. In fact, the crisis was an important defining moment, focusing the minds of policymakers on British interests in the Gulf, and the question of the best means of preserving them. It was also the largest scale mobilization of British forces in the Middle East in the post‐Suez era. This article sets the crisis in the contex…
A Microcosm of Decline
This article reinterprets the post-Suez British role in the Middle East through a comparison of the military interventions in Jordan in 1958 and Kuwait in 1961. Moreover, it places these operations in the broader context of the debate about British decline. It is argued that in addition to the familiar constraints on British action imposed by limited resources and the changing international climate, the projection of power in the region proved to…
A “Special Relationship” sometimes in spite of ourselves’
In view of Britain's role in the creation and development of Jordan, bilateral relations in the wake of the Suez crisis are an important test case of its continuing engagement, not only in the Levant, but in the Middle East as a whole. This article shows that despite the far-reaching changes which took place in British foreign policy between 1957 and 1973, Britain retained a significant bilateral relationship with the Hashemite Kingdom. Through a…
Love's Labours Lost
Relations between Britain and Jordan underwent a revival during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher between 1979 and 1990. Although no longer the dominant power in the Middle East, Britain's membership of the European Economic Community and the close relations between Prime Minister Thatcher and President Reagan meant that Britain was seen by King Hussein as an influential power to be courted. Thatcher shared Hussein's views about the Arab-Israe…
Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War
John Dumbrell, A Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations in the Cold War and After, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2001; pp. vii + 258; ISBN 0 333 62250 2 Jonathan Hollowell (ed.), Twentieth Century Anglo-American Relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001; pp. x + 206; ISBN 0 333 80404 X Matthew Jones, Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965: Britain, the United States, Indonesia and the Creation of Malaysia, Cambridge, Cambridge Un…
A great new venture'? ‐Anglo‐American cooperation in the Middle East and the response to the Iraqi revolution July 1958
Churchill and the Anglo-American special relationship
A Local Terrorist Made Good’
The British government had played an important role during the 1950s and 1960s as a mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict, most notably through the development of Project Alpha between 1954 and 1956, and through the negotiation of United Nations Security Council resolution 242 in 1967. Between 1977 and 1979, British Prime Minister James Callaghan played a supporting role to US President Jimmy Carter as he negotiated the Camp David Accords of 1978…
Searching for a Just and Lasting Peace? Anglo-American Relations and the Road to United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 of 22 November 1967 continues to rank as a key point of reference for the Arab-Israeli peace process. The resolution laid down a 'land for peace' formula for the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, under which Israel would withdraw from territories occupied during the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War in exchange for full peace agreements with her Arab neighbours. This article analyses the Anglo-Americ…
Pulling the Strings
(2006). Pulling the Strings: King Hussein's Role during the Crisis of 1970 in Jordan. The International History Review: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 94-118
Hanging the Kaiser
The flight of the German Kaiser to the Netherlands at the end of the First World War led to a crisis in Anglo‐Dutch relations. Prime Minister David Lloyd George made the trial of the Kaiser a key issue in the British general election campaign of December 1918. Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles called for the Kaiser's surrender by the Netherlands government for trial before an international tribunal, a request the Dutch repeatedly refused du…
The hijacking of a pact
The creation of the Baghdad Pact, a regional defence organization linking Britain to Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, in 1955, has been surrounded by historiographical confusion. Much of this is explicable in terms of the impact of rapid international changes on long-term strategy, the importance of which has tended to be neglected by historians of the pact. So, one school of thought focuses on the American promotion of the ‘Northern Tier’ concep…
A great new venture'? ‐Anglo‐American cooperation in the Middle East and the response to the Iraqi revolution July 1958
The hijacking of a pact
The creation of the Baghdad Pact, a regional defence organization linking Britain to Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, in 1955, has been surrounded by historiographical confusion. Much of this is explicable in terms of the impact of rapid international changes on long-term strategy, the importance of which has tended to be neglected by historians of the pact. So, one school of thought focuses on the American promotion of the ‘Northern Tier’ concep…
Eisenhower, Macmillan and the Problem of Nasser
The years 1955-59 were a vital transitional period for the Anglo-American relationship in the Middle East. British and American leaders sought to protect cold war and oil interests in the region again
Eisenhower, Macmillan, and the Problem of Nasser
Journal Article Eisenhower, Macmillan, and the Problem of Nasser: Anglo-American Relations and Arab Nationalism, 1955–59. By Nigel John Ashton. (New York: St. Martin's, 1996. viii, 273 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-312-16108-5.) Get access Nur Bilge Criss Nur Bilge Criss Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1133–1134, …
A Microcosm of Decline
This article reinterprets the post-Suez British role in the Middle East through a comparison of the military interventions in Jordan in 1958 and Kuwait in 1961. Moreover, it places these operations in the broader context of the debate about British decline. It is argued that in addition to the familiar constraints on British action imposed by limited resources and the changing international climate, the projection of power in the region proved to…
Britain and the Kuwaiti crisis, 1961
The Kuwaiti crisis of 1961 has conventionally been accorded little attention in histories of Britain's role in the Middle East. In fact, the crisis was an important defining moment, focusing the minds of policymakers on British interests in the Gulf, and the question of the best means of preserving them. It was also the largest scale mobilization of British forces in the Middle East in the post‐Suez era. This article sets the crisis in the contex…
Hanging the Kaiser
The flight of the German Kaiser to the Netherlands at the end of the First World War led to a crisis in Anglo‐Dutch relations. Prime Minister David Lloyd George made the trial of the Kaiser a key issue in the British general election campaign of December 1918. Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles called for the Kaiser's surrender by the Netherlands government for trial before an international tribunal, a request the Dutch repeatedly refused du…
Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the French Problem, 1960-1963
Journal Article Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the French Problem, 1960–1963: A Troubled Partnership Constantine A. Pagedas Get access Nigel J. Ashton Nigel J. Ashton London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1370–1371, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1370 Published: 01 November 200…
Uncertain decade
Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War
John Dumbrell, A Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations in the Cold War and After, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2001; pp. vii + 258; ISBN 0 333 62250 2 Jonathan Hollowell (ed.), Twentieth Century Anglo-American Relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001; pp. x + 206; ISBN 0 333 80404 X Matthew Jones, Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965: Britain, the United States, Indonesia and the Creation of Malaysia, Cambridge, Cambridge Un…
Money and Cold War Security
Reflecting on the details of the negotiations required to secure British entry into the European Economic Community in August 1962, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan vented his frustration in a private letter to his close friend Ava, Viscountess Waverley. “Mine is a vision of [the] ... future,” he wrote, if only “we can get away from negotiations on the price of eggs and pig meat.”1 No doubt some diplomatic historians would react in the same way to…
Harold Macmillan and the "Golden Days" of Anglo-American Relations Revisited, 1957-63
To swell a progress, start a scene
A “Special Relationship” sometimes in spite of ourselves’
In view of Britain's role in the creation and development of Jordan, bilateral relations in the wake of the Suez crisis are an important test case of its continuing engagement, not only in the Levant, but in the Middle East as a whole. This article shows that despite the far-reaching changes which took place in British foreign policy between 1957 and 1973, Britain retained a significant bilateral relationship with the Hashemite Kingdom. Through a…
Pulling the Strings
(2006). Pulling the Strings: King Hussein's Role during the Crisis of 1970 in Jordan. The International History Review: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 94-118
King Hussein of Jordan
Cold War Political Theater
Journal Article Cold War Political Theater Get access Daum Andreas W., Kennedy in Berlin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxii + 294pp.Notes, illustrations, bibliography, index. $70.00 (cloth), $23.99 (paper). Nigel J. Ashton Nigel J. Ashton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 33, Issue 3, June 2009, Pages 535–538, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00789.x Publishe…
Twentieth Century Diplomacy
Journal Article Twentieth Century Diplomacy: A Case Study of British Practice, 1963–1976. By John W. Young. Get access Twentieth Century Diplomacy: A Case Study of British Practice, 1963–1976. By John W. Young. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008. xi+244 pp. ISBN 978-0-5218-3916-7, £55. Nigel J. Ashton Nigel J. Ashton London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Stephen Blackwell, British Military Intervention and the Struggle for Jordan
Love's Labours Lost
Relations between Britain and Jordan underwent a revival during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher between 1979 and 1990. Although no longer the dominant power in the Middle East, Britain's membership of the European Economic Community and the close relations between Prime Minister Thatcher and President Reagan meant that Britain was seen by King Hussein as an influential power to be courted. Thatcher shared Hussein's views about the Arab-Israe…
For King and Country
Jack O’Connell, who served as CIA Station Chief in Jordan between 1963 and 1971, was a unique and remarkable figure in the contemporary history of United States involvement in the Middle East. He established a closer personal relationship with King Hussein than any other foreigner before or since. Subsequently he went on to serve as the King's attorney-at-law in the United States and as his informal diplomatic adviser. This article explores O’Con…
The Iran-Iraq War
1. Introduction, Nigel Ashton and Bryan Gibson Part I: Waging the War 2. Lessons Learned: Civil Military Relations during the Iran-Iraq War and its influence on the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 Iraq War, Ibrahim Al-Marashi 3. Saddam and the Iran-Iraq War: Rule from the Top, Williamson Murray and Kevin Woods 4. Mustazafin and Taghutti: Iran and the War, 1980-1988, Rob Johnson Part II: Economic Dimensions of the War 5. The True Role of Oil in the Outcome…
Searching for a Just and Lasting Peace? Anglo-American Relations and the Road to United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 of 22 November 1967 continues to rank as a key point of reference for the Arab-Israeli peace process. The resolution laid down a 'land for peace' formula for the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, under which Israel would withdraw from territories occupied during the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War in exchange for full peace agreements with her Arab neighbours. This article analyses the Anglo-Americ…
A Local Terrorist Made Good’
The British government had played an important role during the 1950s and 1960s as a mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict, most notably through the development of Project Alpha between 1954 and 1956, and through the negotiation of United Nations Security Council resolution 242 in 1967. Between 1977 and 1979, British Prime Minister James Callaghan played a supporting role to US President Jimmy Carter as he negotiated the Camp David Accords of 1978…
Taking Friends for Granted
4 Several broader studies of the reign of King Hussein and of U.S.-Jordanian relations have taken similarly negative views of the Carter administration's approach. 5 In a recent, positive assessment of the administration's achievements at Camp David, Jeremy Pressman represents Hussein as a key proponent of what he terms the most negative assessment of Camp David: that it was "an American-Israeli conspiracy to prevent Palestinian self-determinatio…
James R. Stocker. Spheres of Intervention
If there is one word that sums up the foreign policy of successive U.S. administrations toward Lebanon during the decade before the outbreak of that country’s tragic civil war, it is “neglect.” For the bulk of this period, U.S. attention was directed elsewhere in the region. As James R. Stocker shows in this clearly written and careful study, this U.S. neglect stood in stark contrast to the perception of U.S. interference held by many Lebanese th…
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