US arms policies towards the Shah's Iran /

This work reconstructs and explains the arms relationship that successive U.S. administrations developed with the Shah of Iran from 1950. This relationship has generally been neglected in the extant literature leading to a series of omissions and distortions in the historical record. By detailing ho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McGlinchey, Stephen (Stephen Thomas) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Series:	Routledge studies in US foreign policy.
Subjects:	United States > Military relations > Iran. Iran > Military relations > United States. Military assistance, American > Iran. Arms transfers > Iran. Iran > Politics and government > 1941-1979. POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.

Table of Contents:

American foreign policy towards the Middle East, 1946-1968
Building a client state : U.S. military aid to Iran, 1950-1963
Lyndon B. Johnson and arms credit sales to Iran
Richard Nixon's revolution in U.S.-Iran arms sales policy
Gerald Ford and Iran : continuity in a testing climate
Jimmy Carter and U.S.-Iran arms sales.