Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979?1988

Blight, James G.; Lang, janet M.; Banai Assistant Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College, Hussein; Byrne, Malcolm; Tirman, John; Riedel senior fellow and director of the Brookings Intelligence Project and author of Deadly Embrace: Pakistan America and the Future of the Global Jihad, Bruce [Foreword]

ISBN 10: 1442208309 / ISBN 13: 9781442208308

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012

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• Title: Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979?1988
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442208309
• ISBN 13: 9781442208308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Weight: 26 ounces

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Synopsis

Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.S. and Iranian relations from the fall of the Shah in 1978 through the Iranian hostage crisis and the Iran-Iraq war. Scholars and former officials involved with U.S. and UN policy take a fresh look at U.S and Iranian relations during this time, with special emphasis on the U.S. role in the Iran-Iraq War. With its remarkable declassified documentation and oral testimony that bear directly on questions of U.S. policymaking with regard to the Iran-Iraq War, Becoming Enemies reveals much that was previously unknown about U.S. policy before, during, and after the war. They go beyond mere reportage to offer lessons regarding fundamental foreign policy challenges to the U.S. that transcend time and place.

About the Author

Hussein Banai teaches in the Department of International Studies at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, USA.