ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the Suez Crisis and its nonviolent resolution, highlighting the fact that the crisis was a dispute in the Anglo-American friendship. It explains critique the alliance, institutional, and identity accounts of the nonviolent resolution of the crisis. To ensure the fastening effect, Exile includes a link to the identity or 'reality' that the force-wielder has preserved. The chapter examines how language-power stabilized norms of nonviolence even as the Anglo-American identity was internally threatened. On the American side, key statesmen and politicians homed in on three events within the crisis, Nasser, Nationalization, and Collusion, which they narrated as phrases-in-dispute of the Anglo-American identity, and then linked into a representation of British Bellicosity. British statesmen and politicians generated threat intensification disruptive links as evidence of Betrayal. The campaigns of power politics waged on the phrases-in-dispute constituting Bellicosity and Betrayal were relentless and extensive.
