A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American
violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United
States' longest and most sustained military campaigns since the
Vietnam War. Yet the origins of US involvement in the country
remain deeply obscured—cloaked behind platitudes about advancing
democracy or vague notions of American national interests. With
this book, Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt exposes the origins and deep
history of US intervention in Iraq. The Paranoid Style in American
Diplomacy weaves together histories of Arab nationalists, US
diplomats, and Western oil execs to tell the parallel stories of
the Iraq Petroleum Company and the resilience of Iraqi society.
Drawing on new evidence—the private records of the IPC,
interviews with key figures in Arab oil politics, and recently
declassified US government documents—Wolfe-Hunnicutt covers the
arc of the twentieth century, from the pre-WWI origins of the IPC
consortium and decline of British Empire, to the beginnings of
covert US action in the region, and ultimately the nationalization
of the Iraqi oil industry and perils of postcolonial politics.
American policy makers of the Cold War era inherited the imperial
anxieties of their British forebears and inflated concerns about
access to and potential scarcity of oil, giving rise to a "paranoid
style" in US foreign policy. Wolfe-Hunnicutt deconstructs these
policy practices to reveal how they fueled decades of American
interventions in the region and shines a light on those places that
America's covert empire builders might prefer we not look.
General
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures |
| Release date: |
June 2021 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
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| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-1382-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-5036-1382-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781503613829 |
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