US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and the Shah
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Word Count
56,750 words, Guess
Page Count
227 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-101137482206
- ISBN-139781137482204
- OCLC Control Number907127341
- Better World Books9781137482204
- Open LibraryOL28300553M
Classifications
- LCCJA1-92
- LCCE183.8.I7 O34 2015
Description
The relationship between the United States and Iran has long been burdened by missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Even during the Cold War at the height of the alliance between America and the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon increasingly found themselves having to overcome tensions with Tehran. In US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran, Ben Offiler argues that these presidents engaged with the Shah in a contest over Iranian modernity and, despite Washington's superpower status, struggled to exert influence over the Shah's regime. As a result of the continuity in the policies of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, and the Shah's ability to demonstrate that he was not merely an American pawn, the United States came to accept its declining influence over Iran and endorse the Shah's vision of modernity, thereby tying the White House intimately to the survival -- and downfall -- of the Pahlavi dynasty.
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