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Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history to understand U.S. and Iranian relations from the fall of the Shah in 1978 through the Iranian hostage crisis and the Iran-Iraq war. Scholars and former officials involved with U.S.
List of contents
Foreword: By Bruce Riedel.
Part I: The U.S. and Iran: How "the Enemy Has Become Our Masterpiece."
Prologue: Kierkegaard in the Desert: A Reader's Guide to Becoming Enemies.
Dramatis Personae: Who's Who at the Musgrove Conference.
Chapter One: How It Came to This: The Evolution of Dueling U.S. and Iranian Narratives.
Part II: The Musgrove Conference: A Critical Oral History of the Origins of U.S.-Iranian Enmity.
Chapter Two: The U.S. Confronts The Islamic Republic: The Origins of Enmity, 1979-1982.
Chapter Three: The U.S. Tilt Toward Iraq: A Strategy for Avoiding a "Middle Eastern Armageddon."
Chapter Four: "A World-Class Rogues' Gallery of Liars and Crooks": The Iran-Contra Affair.
Chapter Five: "This Huge Crescendo of Pressures": Iraqi Resurgence in 1988 and Iranian Preparation for War with the U.S.
Chapter Six: Khomeini Drinks the "Hemlock": How the United Nations Facilitated the End of the War.
Part III: Revelations, Perspectives and Interpretations.
Chapter Seven: Missed Opportunities? The Virtual History of U.S.-Iran Relations During the Iran-Iraq War.
Epilogue: Takeaways: What Did We Learn From the Musgrove Dialogues?
Appendix I: Chronology.
Appendix II: Annotated Excerpts From Declassified Documents.
Credits.
Endnotes.
Acronyms.
Acknowledgments.
About the Authors.
Index.
About the author
James G. Blight, Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) chair in Foreign Policy Development, Balsillie School of International Relations, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
janet M. Lang, research professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Hussein Banai, assistant professor of diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College.
Malcolm Byrne, Deputy Director, National Security Archive at George Washington University, Washington, DC.
John Tirman, Executive Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
