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The Carter Administration and the Fall of Iran’s Pahlavi Dynasty

US-Iran Relations on the Brink of the 1979 Revolution

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. A Failed Atatürk: The Shah and Iran in 1977

    • Javier Gil Guerrero
    Pages 13-29
  3. Human Rights and Arms Exports

    • Javier Gil Guerrero
    Pages 31-47
  4. Weeping and Toasting

    • Javier Gil Guerrero
    Pages 49-58
  5. Khomeini’s Shadow

    • Javier Gil Guerrero
    Pages 59-70
  6. The Match and the Wood: The Road to Revolution

    • Javier Gil Guerrero
    Pages 71-93
  7. The Revolution

    • Javier Gil Guerrero
    Pages 95-111
  8. Thinking the Unthinkable

    • Javier Gil Guerrero
    Pages 133-158
  9. End of an Era: The Triumph of the Revolution

    • Javier Gil Guerrero
    Pages 159-188
  10. Epilogue

    • Javier Gil Guerrero
    Pages 189-198
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 199-264

About this book

This book is a tale of loss: the loss of Iran as America's main ally and agent in the Middle East and the downfall of the short-lived Pahlavi monarchy and America's inability and unwillingness to prevent its demise. Khomeini's triumph altered America's perception of Islam and fundamentally changed its relationship with Iran.

Reviews

“Guerrero’s work is written well and documented thoroughly. The resources accessed are valuable in and of themselves. It is a welcome work to the political history of American-Iranian interaction.” (Philip O Hopkins, Iran and the Caucasus, Vol. 21 (1), 2017)

About the author

Javier Gil Guerrero is a researcher at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra, Spain, and also a professor of contemporary history in the School of Communication. He has published several articles on US foreign policy in the Middle East and Islam.

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eBook USD 129.00
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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