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During the early Cold War period, the Third World began to shed the yoke of European dominance. Locked in a global chess match to extend their political footprint, the superpowers jockeyed for influence in the Third World. In the backdrop of superpower competition, the British c…

This thesis considers the role of the Information Research Department (IRD) in countering Arab nationalist and Communist propaganda directed at British interests in the Middle East and Africa between 1954 and 1963. It argues that the 1956 Suez Crisis and its fallout was the cata…