The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America's Relations with Iran

by Abbas Milani

Overview

This critical review of the history of America's relations with Iran shows how little of the two countries' long and complicated relationship is reflected in the foundational axioms of the "Great Satan" myth. The author explains why meaningful and equitable relations can begin only after the two nations have arrived at a common, critical, and accurate reading of the past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817911348
Publisher:	Hoover Institution Press
Publication date:	07/01/2010
Series:	HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Abbas Milani is a research fellow and codirector of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University. He has published more than twenty books; the most recent is Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979 (2008).

Table of Contents

Foreword Fouad Ajami ix

Acknowledgments xv

1 The Iranian Purgatory: The Many Paradoxes of U.S. Relations with Iran 1

2 The Myth of the Great Satan 25

3 Purposes Mistook: America and the Islamist Revolution 39

4 Flirting with Disaster: The United States, Iran, and the "Eastern Look" 101

Epilogue 119

Notes 131

About the Author 137

About the Hoover Institution's Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order 139

Index 141