1. The Rise and Fall of the Hashemite Monarchy
2. The Free Officers' Revolution
3. The Emergence of OPEC
4. The Overthrow of Qasim
5. The Rise and Fall of the Ba'th
6. The Emergence of the Iraq National Oil Company
7. The Arab-Israeli June War
8. The Return of the Ba'th
9. The Nationalization of the IPC
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus. His writing has appeared in Diplomatic History, Diplomacy & Statecraft, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History.
"In 2003, the U.S. invaded Iraq on the basis of lies. Brandon
Wolfe-Hunnicutt's The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy is a
gripping backstory that reveals the historical truths of U.S.-Iraqi
relations. American cold warriors inherited Britain's imperial role
but failed to stop Iraqis from pursuing natural resource
sovereignty."—Nathan J. Citino, Rice University, author of
Envisioning the Arab Future
"Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt's riveting account of US policy in 1960s
Iraq, the rise of Saddam Hussein, and the end of the West's oil
monopoly reads like a John Le Carré novel with footnotes, where the
moral compromises and paranoia of the Cold War drive the
action."—Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania, author of
Oilcraft
"Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt illuminates the stories of visionary,
radical Iraqi politicians who sought control over their country's
oil and tested the limits of American power. The Paranoid Style in
American Diplomacy provokes readers to rethink what they think they
know about Iraq's encounters with US imperialism."—Arbella
Bet-Shlimon, University of Washington, author of City of Black
Gold
"Wolfe-Hunnicutt has crafted an engaging account that makes a
substantive contribution to the evolving history of the global oil
order. It stands as an impressive work on U.S.-Iraqi relations, a
factor in international relations that is crucial to the broader
history of the twentieth century and the evolution of American
empire. And it provides a provocative thesis, suggesting a Cold War
landscape in which paranoia drove policy, added to the upheavals
that influenced the postwar petroleum order, and set the stage for
the oil revolution of the 1970s and the transformation of the
global political economy."—Gregory Brew, Passport
"Producing a book that successfully knits three disparate strands
of a story together is no mean feat. Yet that is exactly what
Wolfe-Hunnicutt has done. This is a book well worth the time
invested in reading it. It definitely deserves a very wide
readership."—Mary Ann Heiss, Passport
"Wolfe-Hunnicutt has written an important study that contributes
greatly to our understanding of U.S.-Iraqi relations in a
transitional era and illuminates the dynamics of natural resource
nationalism and the consolidation of transnational oil elites in
the post-imperial and Cold War years. It will certainly be on my
graduate students' reading lists!"—W. Taylor Fain, Passport
"Wolfe-Hunnicutt has produced an ambitious, wide-ranging, nuanced,
yet hard-hitting critique of the U.S. approach to Arab and Iraqi
nationalism; of the international oil industry; and of the
authoritarian tendencies within Iraqi politics that, alas, surged
to the fore during this three-cornered diplomatic encounter."—Salim
Yaqub, Passport
"The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy is an important work
within the growing body of scholarship that provides equal
attention to both sides of the relationship between the Arab world
and the United States. The book will be required reading for those
who seek to understand the history of Iraqi-US relations, as well
as be of interest more broadly to those studying the political
economy of oil, US empire, and decolonization."—David Wight,
H-Diplo
"Drawing information from primary sources including the IPC
archives, US State Department records, and recollections of the
Iraqi government officials central to the politics of the era,
Wolfe-Hunnicutt weaves an engaging narrative as convincing as it is
well researched."—Philippe Atallah, H-War
"In this crisply written, nuanced, and unusual book, historian
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt reframes relations between the United
States and Iraq primarily from 1960 to 1980 and offers a
multifaceted account by combining histories that typically are not
brought into conversation with each other... Indeed, the biggest
contribution of this book is that it does not offer up a classic
either/or story, i.e., either a US foreign policy narrative or an
Iraqi political or cultural history, but rather deftly merges
together various threads that often are treated as disparate. This
is what makes this book novel and exciting."—Magnús T.
Bernhardsson, The Middle East Journal
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