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Nationalism in Iran

Updated Through 1978

By: Richard W. Cottam

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Nationalism in Iran

Updated Through 1978

By: Richard W. Cottam

For a brief period in the early 1950s, Iranian nationalism captured the world's attention as, under the leadership of Mohammad Mossadeq, the Iranian National Movement tried to liberate Iran from British imperialism. Regarding nationalism as a major determinant of the attitudes and loyalties of those who embrace it, Cottam analyzes the complex religious, national, and social values at work within Iran and examines, more generally, the turbulence of nationalism in developing states and its perplexing problems for American foreign policy. In a new 40-page chapter, added in 1978, Cottam updated his pioneering study by examining the condition of Iran fifteen years after his first analysis-from its rapid economic growth as an oil producer to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's unsuccessful efforts to rouse nationalistic sentiment in his favor.

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0822974207

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9780822974208

Nationalism in Iran

Updated Through 1978

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Updated Through 1978

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Iran and the United States

A Cold War Case Study

By: Richard W. Cottam

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Iran and the United States

A Cold War Case Study

By: Richard W. Cottam

Richard Cottam served in the U.S. embassy in Tehran from 1956 to 1958 and was consulted by the Department of State during the 1979 hostage crisis. This book draws upon his expert personal knowledge of Iranian politics to describe the spiraling decline of U.S.-Iranian relations since the cold war and the political consequences of those years U.S. policy, he argues, is flawed by ignorance, inertia, the tenacity of a cold war mentality, a quixotic tilt toward Iraq, and the blatant inconsistency of the Reagan administration's arms-for-hostages scheme that produced the Iran-contra scandal.

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0822974398

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9780822974390

Foreign Policy Motivation

A General Theory and a Case Study

By: Richard W. Cottam

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Foreign Policy Motivation

A General Theory and a Case Study

By: Richard W. Cottam

Foreign policy motivation is a complex mix reflecting the fears and aspirations of publics, interest groups, bureaucratic sets, and important individuals. International conflict cannot be resolved without resolving how foreign policy is motivated. This book presents a conceptual framework for identifying and weighing foreign policy motives that shape, direct, and alter foreign policy.

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0822976129

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9780822976127

The Clash with Distant Cultures

Values, Interests, and Force in American Foreign Policy

By: Richard J. Payne

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The Clash with Distant Cultures

Values, Interests, and Force in American Foreign Policy

By: Richard J. Payne

Whereas foreign policymaking is generally viewed as a rational, unemotional, and sophisticated process, this analysis of American policies toward the Persian Gulf, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the Bosnian conflict suggests that the underlying and largely unexamined cultural values of most ordinary Americans play a major role in determining the United States' choice of force or negotiation in dealing with international problems. Payne examines the linkage between the United States' tendency to use force in foreign policy and the culture of violence in America. He argues that the costs of resolving conflicts militarily are likely to become more burdensome as economic competitors seek to take advantage of the U.S. tendency to demonstrate resolve primarily through the application of force. Post-Cold War challenges, Payne argues, call for a more nuanced combination of force and diplomacy. He finds hope in the fact that a strong component of American culture favors nonviolence, embraces humanitarianism, and if cultivated can contribute to the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

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State University of New York Press

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1438415664

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9781438415666

Competitive Interference and Twentieth Century Diplomacy

By: Richard W. Cottam

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Competitive Interference and Twentieth Century Diplomacy

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With nuclear proliferation essentially eliminating full-scale warfare, governments have increasingly turned to what Richard W. Cottam calls competitive interference. This type of policy invokes counter-insurgency, political, economic, and psychological manipulations, and often involves looking deeply into the internal affairs of a country, often secretly. Cottam describes and defines competitive interference, explores the United States' institutional adjustment to it, and provides a theoretical framework for projection and evaluation of foreign policy in this changing diplomatic arena. He uses case studies of international relationships involving the United States, India, China, Vietnam, Iran, and the former USSR and East Germany to evaluate his theoretical stance, and proposes long-term institutionalization of policy, rather than covert operations.

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0822975645

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9780822975649

Iran and the United States

A Cold War Case Study

By: Richard W. Cottam

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A Cold War Case Study

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0822954079

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9780822954071

Foreign Policy Motivation

A General Theory and a Case Study

By: Richard W. Cottam

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A General Theory and a Case Study

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Book's by Richard W. Cottam

Nationalism in Iran

Nationalism in Iran

Nationalism in Iran

Nationalism in Iran

Iran and the United States

Iran and the United States

Foreign Policy Motivation

Foreign Policy Motivation

The Clash with Distant Cultures

The Clash with Distant Cultures

Competitive Interference and Twentieth Century Diplomacy

Competitive Interference and Twentieth Century Diplomacy

Iran and the United States

Iran and the United States

Foreign Policy Motivation

Foreign Policy Motivation

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