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Jonathon Whooley boldly confronts, with careful and rigorous archival analysis, one the most important issues of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. He presents a rare and perceptive combination of the construction of American foreign policy toward Iran by deploying the use of specific aspects of foreign policy discourse. By providing a cogent post-structural discourse ontology-deeply rooted in the language of key actors involved-this volume makes a vigorous contribution to the critical security studies. A must-read for anyone concerned about the possibilities of change toward and/or rapprochement with Iran in the region's highly complex and evolving political context. Mahmood Monshipouri, San Francisco State University, Visiting Professor of the University of California, Berkeley Imagining Iran combines rich historical research with insightful analysis from security studies and postcolonial theory to make sense of U.S. Cold War-era policy to Iran. Well written, easy to follow, but importantly controversial-it is a must-read for scholars and students alike. Laura Sjoberg, University of Florida, Associate Professor of Political Science

Jonathon Whooley boldly confronts, with careful and rigorous archival analysis, one of the most important issues of US foreign policy toward the Middle East. He presents a rare and perceptive combination of the construction of American foreign policy toward Iran by deploying the use of specific aspects of foreign policy discourse. By providing a cogent post-structural discourse ontology-deeply rooted in the language of key actors involved-this volume makes a vigorous contribution to critical security studies. Imagining Iran is a must-read for anyone concerned about the possibilities of change toward and/or rapprochement with Iran in the region's highly complex and evolving political context. -Mahmood Monshipouri, San Francisco State University, Visiting Professor of the University of California, Berkeley Imagining Iran combines rich historical research with insightful analysis from security studies and postcolonial theory to make sense of US Cold War-era policy toward Iran. Well-written, easy to follow, but importantly controversial-it is a must-read for scholars and students alike. -Laura Sjoberg, University of Florida

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Jonathon Whooley is a full-time lecturer at the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University, where he teaches human rights, strategy and war, American foreign policy, gender, critical security studies, and global politics. His research interests include the historical construction of American foreign policy as related to the Middle East, identity, gender, human rights, and security. Dr. Whooley earned his PhD from the University of Florida in 2015 with a successful dissertation on the securitization and construction of American foreign policy toward Iran from the administrations of Lyndon Baines Johnson through Ronald Reagan. He has also co-authored book chapters with Laura Sjoberg in The Arab Spring and Arab Thaw (2013) and with Mahmood Monshipouri in Human Rights in the Middle East (2011).

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