Research Catalog

Title

The paranoid style in American diplomacy : oil and Arab nationalism in Iraq / Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt.

Author

Wolfe-Hunnicutt, Brandon

Publication

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

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Details

Description

xiv, 309 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and most sustained military campaigns since the Vietnam War. Yet the origins of US involvement in the country remain deeply obscured-cloaked behind platitudes about advancing democracy or vague notions of American national interests. With this book, Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt exposes the origins and deep history of U.S. intervention in Iraq. "The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy" weaves together histories of Arab nationalists, US diplomats, and Western oil execs to tell the parallel stories of the Iraq Petroleum Company and the resilience of Iraqi society. Drawing on new evidence-the private records of the IPC, interviews with key figures in Arab oil politics, and recently declassified US government documents-Wolfe-Hunnicutt covers the arc of the 20th century, from the pre-WWI origins of the IPC consortium and decline of British Empire, to the beginnings of covert US action in the region, and ultimately the nationalization of the Iraqi oil industry and perils of postcolonial politics. American policymakers of the Cold War-era inherited the imperial anxieties of their British forebears and inflated concerns about access to and potential scarcity of oil, giving rise to a "paranoid style" in US foreign policy. Wolfe-Hunnicutt deconstructs these policy practices to reveal how they fueled decades of American interventions in the region and shines a light on those places that America's covert empire-builders might prefer we not look"--

Series Statement

Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures

Uniform Title

Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.

Subject

• Iraq Petroleum Company > History
• Iraq Petroleum Company
• Since 1958
• Petroleum industry and trade > Government policy > History. > Iraq
• Arab nationalism > Iraq > History
• Arab nationalism
• Diplomatic relations
• Petroleum industry and trade > Government policy
• Politics and government
• United States > Foreign relations > Iraq
• Iraq > Foreign relations > United States
• Iraq > Politics and government > 1958-
• Iraq
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-293) and index.

Contents

The rise and fall of the Hashemite Monarchy -- The Free Officers' Revolution -- The emergence of OPEC -- The overthrow of Qasim -- The rise and fall of the Baʻth -- The emergence of the Iraq National Oil Company -- The Arab-Israeli June War -- The return of the Baʻth -- The nationalization of the IPC.

Call Number

JFE 21-8383

ISBN

• 9781503613829
• 1503613828
• 9781503627918
• 1503627918

LCCN

2020044695

OCLC

1176327007

Author

Wolfe-Hunnicutt, Brandon, author.

Title

The paranoid style in American diplomacy : oil and Arab nationalism in Iraq / Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt.

Publisher

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures

Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-293) and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1958

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8383