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US Arms Policies Towards the Shah's Iran

McGlinchey, Stephen

Authors

Stephen McGlinchey Stephen.Mcglinchey@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations



Abstract

This book reconstructs and explains the arms relationship that successive U.S. administrations developed with the Shah of Iran between 1950 and 1979. This relationship has generally been neglected in the extant literature leading to a series of omissions and distortions in the historical record. By detailing how and why Iran transitioned from a primitive military aid recipient in the 1950s to America’s primary military credit customer in the late 1960s and 1970s, this book provides a detailed and original contribution to the understanding of a key Cold War episode in U.S. foreign policy. By drawing on extensive declassified documents from more than 10 archives, the investigation demonstrates not only the importance of the arms relationship but also how it reflected, and contributed to, the wider evolution of U.S.-Iranian relations from a position of Iranian client state dependency to a situation where the U.S. became heavily leveraged to the Shah for protection of the Gulf and beyond – until the policy met its disastrous end in 1979 as an antithetical regime took power in Iran.

Book Type Monograph
Publication Date Sep 30, 2021
Deposit Date Feb 24, 2022
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Series Number Routledge Studies in Us Foreign Policy
Edition Paperback
ISBN 9781032179735
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8577595
Publisher URL https://www.routledge.com/US-Arms-Policies-Towards-the-Shahs-Iran/McGlinchey/p/book/9781032179735