United States and Iran - Sanctions, Wars and the Policy of Dual Containment

Zusatztext 'Fayazmanesh has done an admirable job of examining the origin of the US policy dual containment. Recommended. All readership levels.' - K.M.Zaarour, Shaw University, Choice, June 2009 Informationen zum Autor Sasan Fayazmanesh is Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Middle East Studies Project at California State University, Fresno, USA. His current areas of research include the political economy of the Middle East and monetary history and theory. Klappentext Analysing the US policy of dual containment of Iran! this work looks at the role that the Carter and Reagan Administrations played in the Iran-Iraq war! the numerous sanctions imposed on Iran by the Clinton Administration and the confrontational policy toward Iran adopted by the George W Bush Administration after the events of September 11! 2001. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes the development of US 'dual containment' policy towards Iran and Iraq with special reference to the former. It covers the period from the early 1980s through to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. On the Origins of the Dual Containment Policy 3. The Dual Containment Policy in the 1980s 4. Israel and the Dual Containment Policy 5. The Clinton Years and the Dual Containment Policy 6. The 'Neoconservatives', Dual Rollback and Israel 8. Paving the Road to the UN Security Council 9. Iran is Referred to the Security Council 10. On the Road to UN Sanctions 11. Success at Last, UN Sanctions Imposed on Iran 12. Conclusion

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sas Fayazmanesh, Sasan Fayazmanesh, Sasan (California State University Fayazmanesh, Fayazmanesh Sas, Fayazmanesh Sasan
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.03.2008
• EAN: 9780415773966
• ISBN: 978-0-415-77396-6
• Seiten: 272
• Serien: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics; Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Vergleichende und internationale Politikwissenschaft; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, International Relations, Middle East, International Economics, Regional Studies, Political Economy, Regional / International studies