Stephen Blackwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5898010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Blackwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackwell |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKWELL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal United Services Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nabokov’s The Gift , Dostoevskii, and the Tradition of Narratorial Ambiguity
Sometimes, we don’t know what a thing is. Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, the protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel The Gift , in Chapter Two describes some witch doctors collecting “Chinese rhubarb, whose root bears an extraordinary resemblance to a caterpillar, right down to its prolegs and spiracles—while I, in the meantime, found under a stone the caterpillar of an unknown moth, which represented not in a general way but with absolute concreten…
British Military Intervention and the Struggle for Jordan
1. Introduction: Jordan, Suez and the Decline of British Influence in the Middle East 2. Glubb's Jordan: The Arab Legion, the Hashemites and the Nationalist Challenge, 1948-1956 3. Amman under the Shadow of Nasser: Jordanian Nationalism and the Suez Crisis, April - November 1956 4. The British Abandonment and the American Retrieval of Jordan, November 1956-April 1957 5. The Kings against the Colonels: Jordan and the Anglo-American Plot to Overthr…
Between Tradition and Transition
Pursuing Nasser
In the period immediately after the Suez Crisis, Harold Macmillan continued the Eden government's previous efforts to bring down the Nasser regime in Egypt. This policy produced mixed reactions in Whitehall, although officials withheld their doubts while the new government sought to repair relations with the Eisenhower administration in 1957. The inconclusive outcome of the Jordan and Lebanon interventions in 1958 ultimately allowed the Foreign O…
Saving the king
(2003). Saving the king: Anglo-American strategy and British counter-subversion operations in Libya, 1953–59. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-18
Britain, the United States and the Syrian crisis, 1957
This paper seeks to analyze the Syrian Crisis in 1957 and its impact on the Anglo‐American reconciliation after the dispute over Suez in the previous year. The Middle East remained at the forefront of British and American continued regional instability and led to close allied cooperation over the perceived Soviet threat in Syria. This ensured that by the time of the Washington Conference in October 1957 both Macmillan and Eisenhower agreed that t…
A desert squall
(1999). A desert squall: Anglo‐American planning for military intervention in Iraq, July 1958‐August 1959. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 1-18
Reading and Rupture in Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
A desert squall
(1999). A desert squall: Anglo‐American planning for military intervention in Iraq, July 1958‐August 1959. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 1-18
Saving the king
(2003). Saving the king: Anglo-American strategy and British counter-subversion operations in Libya, 1953–59. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-18
Britain, the United States and the Syrian crisis, 1957
This paper seeks to analyze the Syrian Crisis in 1957 and its impact on the Anglo‐American reconciliation after the dispute over Suez in the previous year. The Middle East remained at the forefront of British and American continued regional instability and led to close allied cooperation over the perceived Soviet threat in Syria. This ensured that by the time of the Washington Conference in October 1957 both Macmillan and Eisenhower agreed that t…
Reading and Rupture in Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
A desert squall
(1999). A desert squall: Anglo‐American planning for military intervention in Iraq, July 1958‐August 1959. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 1-18
Britain, the United States and the Syrian crisis, 1957
This paper seeks to analyze the Syrian Crisis in 1957 and its impact on the Anglo‐American reconciliation after the dispute over Suez in the previous year. The Middle East remained at the forefront of British and American continued regional instability and led to close allied cooperation over the perceived Soviet threat in Syria. This ensured that by the time of the Washington Conference in October 1957 both Macmillan and Eisenhower agreed that t…
Saving the king
(2003). Saving the king: Anglo-American strategy and British counter-subversion operations in Libya, 1953–59. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-18
Pursuing Nasser
In the period immediately after the Suez Crisis, Harold Macmillan continued the Eden government's previous efforts to bring down the Nasser regime in Egypt. This policy produced mixed reactions in Whitehall, although officials withheld their doubts while the new government sought to repair relations with the Eisenhower administration in 1957. The inconclusive outcome of the Jordan and Lebanon interventions in 1958 ultimately allowed the Foreign O…
Between Tradition and Transition
British Military Intervention and the Struggle for Jordan
1. Introduction: Jordan, Suez and the Decline of British Influence in the Middle East 2. Glubb's Jordan: The Arab Legion, the Hashemites and the Nationalist Challenge, 1948-1956 3. Amman under the Shadow of Nasser: Jordanian Nationalism and the Suez Crisis, April - November 1956 4. The British Abandonment and the American Retrieval of Jordan, November 1956-April 1957 5. The Kings against the Colonels: Jordan and the Anglo-American Plot to Overthr…
Nabokov’s The Gift , Dostoevskii, and the Tradition of Narratorial Ambiguity
Sometimes, we don’t know what a thing is. Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, the protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel The Gift , in Chapter Two describes some witch doctors collecting “Chinese rhubarb, whose root bears an extraordinary resemblance to a caterpillar, right down to its prolegs and spiracles—while I, in the meantime, found under a stone the caterpillar of an unknown moth, which represented not in a general way but with absolute concreten…
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