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American and British soft power in Iran, 1953-1960a 'special relationship'? /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	American and British soft power in Iran, 1953-1960by Darius Wainwright.
Reminder of title:	a 'special relationship'? /
Author:	Wainwright, Darius.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	x, 236 p. :digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	History, general.
Subject:	United States
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88414-7
ISBN:	9783030884147$q(electronic bk.)

American and British soft power in Iran, 1953-1960a 'special relationship'? /
Wainwright, Darius.

American and British soft power in Iran, 1953-1960a 'special relationship'? /[electronic resource] :by Darius Wainwright. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - x, 236 p. :digital ;22 cm.

1.Introduction -- 2. Soft Power, the 'Special Relationship' and the Roots of Anglo-American Cultural Diplomacy in Iran -- 3. Maintaining Geopolitical Stability: The USIS and the Containment of Soviet-Inspired Communism in Iran -- 4. Education and Socio-economic Development: Promoting the American Way of Life in Iran -- 5. Maintaining Britain's Position in Iran: The Information Research Department, SAVAK and Anti-Soviet Propaganda -- 6. Anglicising Iranian Society and Culture Through Education:The UK Foreign Office and the British Council -- 7. The Impact of American and British Soft Power in Iran -- 8.Conclusion.

This book offers a distinctive approach to understanding Anglo-American relations with Iran in the early Cold War. It establishes how the United Kingdom and United States used soft power between 1953 and 1960 to combat communism and promote their respective ways of life in Iran. It identifies their motives, the types of initiatives employed, and the extent to which they perceived their policies to be a success. It is a historical case study through which wider conclusions regarding UK and US foreign policy can be drawn. As well as illustrating the competitive tensions within the Anglo-American 'special relationship', it highlights the role of individuals in the making and shaping of diplomatic endeavours. More broadly, the analysis of UK and US interactions in Iran through the prism of soft power underlines that there was more to both countries' Cold War foreign policies than the containment of communism. Darius Wainwright is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Reading, UK, and Guest Teacher in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

ISBN: 9783030884147$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-88414-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

731460
History, general.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

236377
United States

LC Class. No.: E183.8.I7 / W35 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 327.73055

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