Imagining Iran : Orientalism and the construction of security development in American foreign policy / Jonathon Whooley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whooley, Jonathon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iran--Foreign relations--United States.

Iran.

International relations.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Iran.

Orientalism.

Diplomatic relations.

Physical Description:

x, 206 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; Berlin : Peter Lang, [2018]

Summary:

Imagining Iran constructs and assembles American foreign policy through critical security studies discourse analysis and Orientalist descriptions of key actors within the presidential administrations of Lyndon Baines Johnson through Ronald Reagan (1965-1989). This book is essential reading for those who are interested in learning about how foreign policy making is conducted, how theories directly affect the process of foreign policy making, and how the shah and Iran served US interests. It also discusses the larger question of why the US uses autocratic proxies to pursue its nominally human rights and democracy-based goals.0Students of foreign policy, Middle East studies, and critical security studies, as well as Iran experts, can benefit from this historical deep dive on policy making. The internal conversations, diary entries, and previously classified documents and briefings tell the story of how the US imagined Iran, and why that ideational construction proved to be such a dominant and pernicious image for 26 years, the reverberations of which are still felt today in our modern conception of what Iran is and what Iranians can do through the lens of American foreign policy.

Contents:

Security narratives and American foreign policy

Research design

Foreign policy and ideational construction within the Johnson administration

Foreign policy and ideational construction within the Nixon administration

Security, foreign policy, and ideational construction within the Ford administration

Security, foreign policy, and ideational construction within the Carter administration

Foreign policy and ideational construction within the Reagan administration

Conclusion: the "good Oriental" and American foreign policy toward Iran.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and index.

ISBN:

9781433150227

1433150220

OCLC:

1050809206

Publisher Number:

9781433150227

99977725693