Links to the Past: Course Sites for Dr. Christopher Lovett

updated as of 9 Feb 03

Eisenhower research projects

Students interested in working with a topic found at the Eisenhower library are advised to contact the professor and set up a schedule that they can visit the Eisenhower Library; however, first visit Dr. Lovett so he can arrange your visit to Abilene. A finders aid is also available on line for materials that relate to John Foster Dulles and the Middle East; the documents found in the finding aid relate solely to the Secretary of State and the Middle East.

1. Revolution in the Middle East: Iraq, 1958-60 (Box 4, Special Staff File, NSC Staff Papers, Iraq-Philip Halla Special File). During the the late 1950s, revolution broke out in Iraq. In 1959, the National Security Council established a special committee to monitor the Iraq situation. These folders contain a State Department paper outlining the Iraq problems, plus memoranda of Special Committee meetings. Many of these documents have been released only in part while others are still classified. A person using this file can experience the frustrations felt by researchers when seeing the sections of dots on sanitized documents and the seemingly interminable lists of items withdrawn because of security classifications.

2. UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST: A GENERAL STUDY

3. UNITED STATES RELATIONS WITH INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES

4. PERSONALITIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST (NASSER, KING SAUD, THE SHAH OF IRAN, KING HUSSEIN, BEN GURION, ETC)

5. NSC 1290: OVERSEAS INTERNAL SECURITY (IRAN, IRAQ, JORDAN, SYRIA)

6. CRISIS OF MODERNIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST (TITLE OF A DECLASSIFIED STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT ON THE MIDDLE EAST DATED JULY 1960)

7. PSB D-22: UNITED STATES PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY TOWARDS THE MIDDLE EAST

8. PROJECT ALPHA: A PROPOSAL TO END THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

9. WATER RESOURCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

10. DIPLOMACY OF OIL

11. NSC 26 SERIES: PLANS FOR DENIAL OF MIDDLE EAST OIL RESOURCES TO HOSTILE COUNTRIES (Please note: some of the NSC 26 papers have been declassified but many significant documents on this topic remain classified)

12. ISLAM AS A POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL FORCE IN THE WORLD

13. CRISIS: SUEZ 1956

14. CRISIS: LEBANON 1958

15. REVOLUTION: IRAQ IN 1959 (See Number 1)

16. COUP: IRAN 1953

17. AFTER THE COUP: US-IRANIAN RELATIONS, 1954 ONWARD

18. IRANIAN OIL CONSORTIUM

19. ARISTOTLE ONASSIS: WHEELING AND DEALING IN THE OIL SHIPPING BUSINESS

20. TURKEY (MUCH CAN BE DONE HERE; GENERAL RELATIONS; TURKEY & NATO; TURKEY AND CYPRUS, CLARENCE RANDALL MISSION TO TURKEY IN 1956, ETC).

21. SOUTH ASIA: AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN

22. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER�S ELEVEN NATION TOUR IN 1959 (STOPS IN KABUL, TEHRAN, TUNISIA)

23. HENRY AURAND AND THE CLOSING OF THE AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST THEATER IN 1946

24. THE MOSLEM WORLD AND WORLD WAR II

25. US MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST (OVERSEAS BASES-DHAHRAN, ETC) (LIMITED WAR EXERCISE RE DEFENSE OF IRAN)

26. US POLICY TOWARD THE HORN OF AFRICA (ETHIOPIA AND SOMALIA)

27. US POLICY TOWARD NORTH AFRICA

28. CLAUDE BOILLOT AND THE SUEZ CANAL COMPANY, 1872 TO 1978 (A READING KNOWLEDGE OF FRENCH IS RECOMMENDED FOR THIS TOPIC)

29. US-UK RELATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

30. BAGHDAD PACT

31. DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EISENHOWER DOCTRINE