Robert Steele

Pahlavi Iran's Relations with Africa

Cultural and Political Connections in the Cold War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining Iran's political, cultural and economic interactions with Africa during the late Pahlavi period, this innovative book is intended for students and researchers of modern Iran and its foreign relations, as well as area studies scholars who specialise in Africa and the Middle East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 329
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009473149
• ISBN-10: 100947314X
• Artikelnr.: 70005643

Autorenporträt

Robert Steele is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of The Shah's Imperial Celebrations of 1971: Nationalism, Culture and Politics in Late Pahlavi Iran (2020), and co-editor of Iran and Global Decolonisation: Politics and Resistance After Empire (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Establishing Relations (c. 1957-1970): 1. Iran, Egypt and the spectre of nasserism
2. Iran, North Africa and Islamic solidarity
3. 'Creating influence and dialogue with the African continent', 1960-1968
4. Establishing ties with apartheid South Africa
Part II. Forming an Africa Policy (1971-1975): 5. North Africa, Islam and the great civilisation
6. Trouble in the horn and soviet encroachment
7. Iran and West Africa
8. Distributing the oil wealth: Africa and Iranian aid
Part III. Africa and Pahlavi Iran's Grand Strategy (1976-1979): 9. Iran and Senegal: building a special relationship in Africa, 1975-1979
10. Southern Africa: the politics of race and oil
11. Iran, the Ogaden war and African security in the late 1970s
Conclusion
References
Index.