Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah : the United States and Iran in the Cold War

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Label

Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah : the United States and Iran in the Cold War

Title remainder

the United States and Iran in the Cold War

Statement of responsibility

Roham Alvandi

Title variation

United States and Iran in the Cold War

Creator

• Alvandi, Roham, 1979-

Author

• Alvandi, Roham, 1979-

Subject

• Nixon, Richard M., (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
• Iran -- Foreign relations -- United States
• Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
• United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974
• 1969-1974
• Cold War -- Diplomatic history
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Iran

Language

eng

Summary

Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah offers a detailed account of three key historical episodes in the Nixon-Kissinger-Pahlavi partnership that shaped the global Cold War far beyond Iran's borders. It examines the emergence of Iranian primacy in the Persian Gulf as the Nixon administration looked to the shah to fill the vacuum created by the British withdrawal from the region in 1971. It then turns to the peak of the parnership after Nixon and Kissinger's historic 1972 visit to Iran, when the shah succeeded in drawing the United States into his covert war against Iraq in Kurdistan. Finally, it focuses on the decline of the partnership under Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, through a history of the failed negotiations from 1974 to 1976 for an agreement on U.S. nuclear exports to Iran. Taken together, these episodes map the rise of the fall of Iran's Cold War partnership with the United States during the decade of superpower détente, Vietnam, and Watergate

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

327.7305509/04

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E183.8.I55

LC item number

A598 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography