Abstract
The three years following the 1958 crisis witnessed the emergence of a proactive, more assertive Jordanian national security policy designed to undermine the United Arab Republic. National security establishment hardliners were able to convince King Hussein to expand Jordan’s role in regional politics by convincing the monarch that Jordanian security could best be protected through external means. The hardliners comprised key elements of the royalist faction which had supported the young king during the 1957 and 1958 crises.
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© 2002 Lawrence Tal
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Tal, L. (2002). Confronting the United Arab Republic. In: Politics, the Military and National Security in Jordan, 1955–1967. St Antony's Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230513921_5
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