Gregory Brew (Connecticut Yale University)

Petroleum and Progress in Iran

Oil, Development, and the Cold War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using interdisciplinary techniques and a wide range of archival sources, Gregory Brew explores Iran's thirty-year evolution into the world's first 'petro-state'. Placing oil at the centre of the Cold War narrative, it shows how Iran's petrolic authoritarianism emerged from a combination of local and global forces.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 261
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781009206341
• ISBN-10: 1009206346
• Artikelnr.: 64035653

Autorenporträt

Gregory Brew is Kissinger Visiting Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. He is a historian of modern Iran, the Cold War, and international oil. He has written extensively on contemporary issues of energy and geopolitics, and his work has appeared in Iranian Studies, The International History Review, and the Texas National Security Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Iran, global oil, and the United States, 1901
1947; 2. 'We have done nothing': the Seven-Year Plan and the failure of dual integration in Iran, 1947
1951; 3. The Mosaddeq Challenge: nationalization and the isolation of Iranian oil, 1951
1952; 4. The collapse narrative: the coup and the reintegration of Iranian oil, 1952
1954; 5. The petrochemical paradise: oil-driven development and the Second Plan, 1954
1963; 6. The golden goose: Iran, the Consortium, and the first OPEC crisis, 1954
1965; 7. Controlled revolution: expertise, economics, and the American view of Iran, 1954
1965; Epilogue.