Title: How did the Cold War affect the Middle East?
Headings: How did the Cold War affect the Middle East?
How did the Cold War affect the Middle East?
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Content: This essay will discuss the nature of the Cold War and its implication on the Middle East. Secondly, this essay will explore the different strategies adopted by the Soviet Union and the United States during the Suez war to achieve political hegemony. Overall, this essay aims to argue that the actions of the superpowers themselves had a limited impact on the development of the region. Rather local actors have greater significance and a larger impact on the Cold War, as demonstrated by Nasser in the Suez crisis. This essay hopes to emphasise that the implications generated as a result of the Cold War had a great impact on the region as it led to the rise of Nasser who dominated the region politically for at least a decade. The Cold War was an international conflict which dominated global politics from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The nature of the Cold War can be explained by examining three key features: bipolarity, nuclear weapons and ideology (Sayigh, Shlaim 2003, p.1). The bipolar nature of the international structure created a world order with rival spheres of influence. The impact of bipolarity is that both superpower’s balance against one another.