Reem Abou-El-Fadl is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Before moving to School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, she was Lecturer at Durham University and Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in International Relations and the Middle East at the University of Oxford.

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Empire and nationalism in Turkey and Egypt: 1839-1950; 2. The Democrats in opposition: imagining a 'Little America'; 3. The Free Officers in opposition: imagining revolution; 4. Turkey's accession to NATO, 1950-52: members of the 'free world'; 5. Neutralism and pan-Arabism in Egypt, 1952-54: securing sovereignty; 6. Turkey and the Baghdad Pact, 1955: 'freeing' the Middle East; 7. Egypt from the Baghdad Pact to Czech Arms, 1955: shielding sovereignty; 8. Turkey and the Syrian crisis, 1957: linking spheres; 9. Egypt from Suez to Syrian Union, 1956-58: sovereign action; Comparative conclusions; Bibliography; Index.