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Republics of Myth

National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict

by Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, John Tirman ...

Why does the rift between the US and Iran persist?Iran and the United States have been at odds for forty years, locked in a cold war that has run the gamut from harsh rhetoric to hostage-taking, from crippling sanctions to targeted killings. In Republics of Myth, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman argue that a major contributing factor to this tenacious enmity is how each nation views ... Read more

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Why does the rift between the US and Iran persist?Iran and the United States have been at odds for forty years, locked in a cold war that has run the gamut from harsh rhetoric to hostage-taking, from crippling sanctions to targeted killings. In Republics of Myth, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman argue that a major contributing factor to this tenacious enmity is how each nation views
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With Our Eyes Open

Book a Break anthology, #2

by Malcolm Welshman, Anna Tan, Kevin Keely, Lucy Holden, Elspeth Knight, Juliet Staveley, Ruth Bateson, E.F.S. Byrne, Jill Barth, Alexandra Hademenos, Debz Hobbs-Wyatt, Sherry Morris, Parker McIntosh, Enda Scott, Vanessa Steer, Hal Ackerman, Olivia Templeton, Chantal Mackley, Saphia Fleury, Sylvia Telfer, Alice Penfold, Rosalind Adler, Sophie Marie, Sam Middleton Beattie, Peter Fong, Cooper Wilms, Jessica Joy, Irma Goderdzishvili, Laurence Klinger, Lyndon Mallet, Nicola Brooks-Williamson, Paul Thurston, Sean Watkin, Jeannie Abbott, Kirsty Holmes ...

Series Book 2 - Book a Break anthology
Fancy a trip to Pluto? Or how about a fearful drive along a stretch of country road, or a long, hot, dusty walk to Nairobi? Unless you prefer to go to church with a strange woman in green tights, her hair alive with electricity. Here you have 34 stories, each one a journey, whether planned or unexpected, funny or frightening, real or figurative, shared or dreadfully alone. ‘They had a long journey ... Read more

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Fancy a trip to Pluto? Or how about a fearful drive along a stretch of country road, or a long, hot, dusty walk to Nairobi? Unless you prefer to go to church with a strange woman in green tights, her hair alive with electricity. Here you have 34 stories, each one a journey, whether planned or unexpected, funny or frightening, real or figurative, shared or dreadfully alone. ‘They had a long journey
... Read more
Iran-Contra

Reagan's Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power

by Malcolm Byrne ...

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleEverything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms to “Contra” guerrillas, exposing a tightly held U.S. clandestine program. A month later, reports surfaced that Washington had been covertly selling arms to Iran (our sworn enemy and a state sponsor of terrorism), in exchange for help freeing hostages in ... Read more

$23.79 USD

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleEverything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms to “Contra” guerrillas, exposing a tightly held U.S. clandestine program. A month later, reports surfaced that Washington had been covertly selling arms to Iran (our sworn enemy and a state sponsor of terrorism), in exchange for help freeing hostages in
... Read more
Worlds Apart

A Documentary History of US–Iranian Relations, 1978–2018

by Malcolm Byrne, Kian Byrne ...

A relationship beset with extraordinary acrimony, the US and Iran rarely see eye-to-eye, if only to avoid war or nuclear catastrophe. What is at the core of this troubled rivalry that has stymied policymakers and scholars alike? Using a carefully selected collection of White House, CIA, State Department, and other records, Worlds Apart provides a comprehensive answer to this question: starting ... Read more

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A relationship beset with extraordinary acrimony, the US and Iran rarely see eye-to-eye, if only to avoid war or nuclear catastrophe. What is at the core of this troubled rivalry that has stymied policymakers and scholars alike? Using a carefully selected collection of White House, CIA, State Department, and other records, Worlds Apart provides a comprehensive answer to this question: starting
... Read more
Data in Society

Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation

by Jim Ridgway, Ron Johnston, Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray, Amy Sippitt, Spencer Hedger, Sinclair Sutherland, James Nicholson, Charlotte Brookfield, Luke Sloan, Malcolm Williams, Keiko Yasukawa, James Goodman, Nour Dados, Kate Bloor, Ludi Simpson, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Jay Ginn, Richard Cookson, Tim Doran, Roy Carr-Hill, David Walker, Prem Sikka, Rebecca Boden, Paul Bivand, Stewart Lansley, Christopher Deeming, Steve Fothergill, Christina Beatty, David Byrne, David Rhind, Richard Murphy, Alessio D'Angelo, Eleonore Kofman, Brad K Blitz, Adrian Tear, Gary Hearne, Ifan Shepherd, Ruth Gilbert, Harvey Goldstein, Kevin McConway ...

Statistical data and evidence-based claims are increasingly central to our everyday lives. Critically examining ‘Big Data’, this book charts the recent explosion in sources of data, including those precipitated by global developments and technological change. It sets out changes and controversies related to data harvesting and construction, dissemination and data analytics by a range of private, ... Read more

$55.79 USD

Statistical data and evidence-based claims are increasingly central to our everyday lives. Critically examining ‘Big Data’, this book charts the recent explosion in sources of data, including those precipitated by global developments and technological change. It sets out changes and controversies related to data harvesting and construction, dissemination and data analytics by a range of private,
... Read more
Becoming Enemies

U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979–1988

by James G. Blight, janet M. Lang, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, John Tirman ...

Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, 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. and UN policy take a fresh look at U.S and Iranian relations ... Read more

$46.99 USD

Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, 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. and UN policy take a fresh look at U.S and Iranian relations
... Read more
The Legacy of the Cold War

Perspectives on Security, Cooperation, and Conflict

by Willlem van Eekelen, Vincent Keating, Vojtech Mastny, Daniel Möckli, Nicholas Wheeler, Zhu Liqun, Huang Yuxing, Andreas Wenger, Mark Kramer0, Douglas Craig1, Malcolm Byrne2, Lawrence S. Kaplan3, William R. Keylor4, Robert J. McMahon5 ...

Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
The unexpected end of the protracted conflict has been a sobering experience for scholars. No theory had anticipated how the Cold War would be terminated, and none should also be relied upon to explicate its legacy. But instead of relying on preconceived formulas to project past developments, taking a historical perspective to explain their causes and consequences allows one to better understand ... Read more

$55.09 USD

The unexpected end of the protracted conflict has been a sobering experience for scholars. No theory had anticipated how the Cold War would be terminated, and none should also be relied upon to explicate its legacy. But instead of relying on preconceived formulas to project past developments, taking a historical perspective to explain their causes and consequences allows one to better understand
... Read more
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Republics of Myth

National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict

by Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, John Tirman ...

Narrated by Chris Sorensen ...

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13 hours 47 min

Why does the rift between the US and Iran persist?Iran and the United States have been at odds for forty years, locked in a cold war that has run the gamut. In Republics of Myth, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman argue that a major contributing factor to this tenacious enmity is how each nation views itself. Their often-deadly confrontation derives from the very different national ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Why does the rift between the US and Iran persist?Iran and the United States have been at odds for forty years, locked in a cold war that has run the gamut. In Republics of Myth, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman argue that a major contributing factor to this tenacious enmity is how each nation views itself. Their often-deadly confrontation derives from the very different national
... Read more

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Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran

Edited by Mark J. Gasiorowski, Malcolm Byrne ...

Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
Mohammad Mosaddeq is widely regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran’s modern history. Mosaddeq became prime minister of Iran in May 1951 and promptly nationalized its British-controlled oil industry, initiating a bitter confrontation between Iran and Britain that increasingly undermined Mosaddeq’s position. He was finally overthrown in ... Read more

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Mohammad Mosaddeq is widely regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran’s modern history. Mosaddeq became prime minister of Iran in May 1951 and promptly nationalized its British-controlled oil industry, initiating a bitter confrontation between Iran and Britain that increasingly undermined Mosaddeq’s position. He was finally overthrown in
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Beyond Bin Laden

America and the Future of Terror

by Karen Hughes, James A. Baker III ...

Osama bin Laden was the most wanted man in American history—an enemy who brought the United States what President George W. Bush called “a day of fire,” and ushered in a new era of terrorism. It took a decade of blood and sacrifice, of determination and frustration, but finally, in a nighttime raid at the end of a dirt road in Pakistan, the hunt for Bin Laden ended with a gunshot. It was a ... Read more

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Osama bin Laden was the most wanted man in American history—an enemy who brought the United States what President George W. Bush called “a day of fire,” and ushered in a new era of terrorism. It took a decade of blood and sacrifice, of determination and frustration, but finally, in a nighttime raid at the end of a dirt road in Pakistan, the hunt for Bin Laden ended with a gunshot. It was a
... Read more

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All the Shah's Men

An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

by Stephen Kinzer ...

Hailed as "a very gripping read" by The New York Times and s****elected as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and The Economist, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister and features a brand new preface by the author on the folly of attacking Iran.As zealots in Washington intensify their preparations ... Read more

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Hailed as "a very gripping read" by The New York Times and s****elected as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and The Economist, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister and features a brand new preface by the author on the folly of attacking Iran.As zealots in Washington intensify their preparations
... Read more

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A Single Roll of the Dice

Obama's Diplomacy with Iran

by Trita Parsi ...

Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit of regime change a better approach? How can the United States best address the ongoing turmoil in Tehran? This book provides a definitive and comprehensive analysis of the Obama administration's early diplomatic outreach to ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit of regime change a better approach? How can the United States best address the ongoing turmoil in Tehran? This book provides a definitive and comprehensive analysis of the Obama administration's early diplomatic outreach to
... Read more

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