The Greater Middle East and the Cold War: US Foreign Policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy Roby C. Barrett At the height of the Cold War, the US sought to maintain power and influence in the Greater Middle East - the region from Morocco to India - in the context of a growing threat from Russia and the decline of British imperialism. This original and important study illuminates this tense period in international relations, offering many new insights into the global situation of the 1950s and 1960s. Roby Barrett casts fresh light on US foreign policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy, drawing on extensive research in archives and document collections from Kansas to Canberra and numerous interviews with key policy makers and observers from both the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. He explores the application of the Cold War containment policy through economic development and security assistance, highlighting the fundamental similarities between the goals and application of foreign policy in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations as well as the impact of British influence on the process. And in the process this book draws some unexpected conclusions, arguing that Eisenhower’s policies were ultimately more successful than Kennedy’s, and offers an important and revisionist contribution to our understanding of the Cold War and the Middle East. Roby C. Barrett is a Scholar at the Public Policy Center, Middle East Institute, Washington DC. A Senior Fellow at the Joint Special Operations University and a Senior Fellow in the Middle East Studies at the Air Force Special Operations School. He holds a PhD in Middle East and South Asian History from the University of Texas at Austin and was a US Foreign Service Officer in the Middle East, a former Eisenhower-Roberts Research Fellow at the Eisenhower Institute in Washington, D.C, and a Rotary International Fellow IN Russian History at the University of Munich Institute. As a Scottish Rite Fellow he also received a grant for research at the University of Oxford. He is the president of C-COMM Corporation, a firm specializing in national security policy and technology operational integration issues.