ABSTRACT
Motivated by the vision of a worldwide communist threat to the global balance of power, and alarmed by the rapid fall of the East European states to Soviet domination, President Dwight D. Eisenhower – who would lay, in his second term in the White House, the conceptual, albeit not the operational, groundwork of the AmericanIsraeli alliance – initially embarked upon a policy that sought to encircle the Soviet Union with states allied to, and supported by, the West.
