Open AccessSuperpower Dominance: The Yum Kippur Case
Author(s) -
Mohamad Hasan Soueidan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
technium social sciences journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2668-7798
DOI - 10.47577/tssj.v22i1.4288
Subject(s) - superpower , dominance (genetics) , soviet union , middle east , foreign policy , political science , spanish civil war , cold war , iraq war , economic history , political economy , development economics , law , history , sociology , politics , economics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
The Yum Kippur War, or as the Egyptians call it The October War, is one of the most important wars in the history of the Middle East between the coalition of Egypt and Syria versus Israel. It occurred at a time when the two superpowers then, the Americans and the Soviet Union, were in engaging in what was called the Cold War. For that every Superpower used to support a certain party of conflict to assure the balance of global dominance isn't affected. This paper reviews American foreign policy during the war in 1973. It concentrates on how the American institutions and foreign policy activists acted and influenced the outcome of the war. The paper finally conducts a counter analysis on what could have happened if the Americans didn’t support the Israelis in the war.