ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS AND COLD WAR OIL by Steve Marsh ( 9780230287655 )

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ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS AND COLD WAR OIL
CRISIS IN IRAN

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ISBN 10:

0230287654

ISBN 13:

9780230287655

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

12 August, 2003

Description:

Middle East oil and Anglo-American special relations were among the most contentious issues during the Cold War. Oil is crucial to our understanding of Britain's and the USA's Cold War policies in the Middle East. This book presents an in-depth study of the issues of the period and the legacy of oil in the post Cold war era.

Synopsis:

This major new book provides new insights into the special relationship and the Anglo-Iranian oil crisis. It analyses the interplay of british and American policies at the global, Middles Eastern and Iranian levels and explores the impact on national policy of the oil majors. It also develops conclusions that challenge ideas of postwar US hegmony within the Western Allience and traditional realist and Cold War interpretations of international relations. The book argues too, that the oil crisis encouraged the US to supplant Britain as the senior western power in the Middle East and, in relative terms, to downgrade the special relationship. Also, humiliation in Iran and failure to learn important lessons helped deliver Britain to the Suez Crisis. And US covert operations against Iran's Premier had repercussions that ultimately weakened Cold War detente and made Iran, the implacable enemy of America that President George Bush Jr denounced in 2002 as part of an 'axis of evil'.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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