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US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran examines the evolution of US-Iranian relations during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon. It demonstrates how successive administrations struggled to exert influence
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Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
E. Pedaliu J. Young
Ben Offiler has taught American history and foreign relations at the University of Sheffield, UK, and the University of Nottingham, UK, where he received his PhD in American Studies. His research was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran
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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US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and the Shah BEN OFFILER
Cover images: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, meeting with President Kennedy and Robert McNamara. April 13, 1962 © Everett Collection Historical / Alamy, The Azadi Tower, or King Memorial Tower, Teheran, Iran © EmmePi Travel / Alamy
The Palgrave Macmillan series, Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World aims to make a significant contribution to academic and policy debates on cooperation, conflict and security since 1900. It evolved from the series Global Conflict and Security edited by Professor Saki Ruth Dockrill. The current series welcomes proposals that offer innovative historical perspectives, based on archival evidence and promoting an empirical understanding of economic and political cooperation, conflict and security, peace-making, diplomacy, humanitarian intervention, nation-building, intelligence, terrorism, the influence of ideology and religion on international relations, as well as the work of international organisations and nongovernmental organisations. Series editors Effie G. H. Pedaliu is Fellow at LSE IDEAS, UK. She is the author of Britain, Italy and the Origins of the Cold War, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and many articles on the Cold War. She is a member of the peer review college of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. John W. Young is Professor of International History at the University of Nottingham, UK, and Chair of the British International History Group. His recent publications include Twentieth Century Diplomacy: A Case Study in British Practice, 1963-76 (2008) and, co-edi
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