American Prestige
American Prestige
“American Prestige” takes a comprehensive look at U.S. foreign policy and int'l affairs, providing listeners with everything they need to know about what’s going on in the world.
Description
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, associate professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, is back to conclude the series on his book The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq. The group delves into the aftermath of the 1963 coups, American narratives that formed around the Middle East in light of "petro dollar Christianity", President Abdul Salam Arif, the founding of the Iraq National Oil Company, the Ba'athist return in the 1968 17 July Revolution, and the state of play in US-Iraqi relations in the 1970s.
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