The US-Iran relationship : the impact of political identity on foreign policy
By: Kinch, Penelope
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Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 327.73055 KI US (Browse shelf) | Available | may2018 | T0059782 |
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327.73053809045 BR TH Thicker than oil : | 327.7305491 RI DE Deadly embrace : | 327.73055 CO OI The oil kings : | 327.73055 KI US The US-Iran relationship : | 327.73055 MA RO Role theory and role conflict in U.S.-Iran relations : | 327.73055 PA SI A single roll of the dice : | 327.73055 US IR U.S.-Iran misperceptions : |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-268) and index.
Since the Revolution of 1978/79, which eventually brought to power Ayatollah Khomeini and his circle of conservative, though politically active, clerics, the relationship between Iran and the USA has represented one of the world's most complex and hostile international entanglements. In this book, Penelope Kinch analyses the extent to which political identity has contributed to challenges in the relationship and the role of myths in foreign policy. Kinch first examines the construction of political identity in each country, and thereby traces the imagined norms which have their impact on international behaviour. Looking at the misperceptions that have precluded closer communication between the two states, Kinch examines both historical issues, such as the 1979 US embassy hostage crisis as well as more contemporary crises, most notably over Iran's nuclear power programme.