Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East
Author:   Afshon Ostovar (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780190940980


Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 November 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East


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Author:   Afshon Ostovar (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.667kg
ISBN:  

9780190940980


ISBN 10:   0190940980
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 November 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Maps Chapter 1: Introduction Part I Chapter 2: When the Levee Breaks Chapter 3: Enter Iran Chapter 4: The Strategy of Freedom Chapter 5: The Path to Jerusalem Part II Chapter 6: Upheaval Chapter 7: Rebels and Tyrants Chapter 8: Firestorm Chapter 9: Nuclear Clouds Part III Chapter 10: America First Chapter 11: Peninsular Woes Chapter 12: The Quest for Tripoli Part IV Chapter 13: The Razor's Edge Chapter 14: An Undeclared War Chapter 15: Shifting Sands of a New Era Chapter 16: Epilogue Chapter 17: Conclusion

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In his new book, Wars of Ambition, Afshon Ostovar offers a well-written and accessible account of the strategic competition and continuing conflict between the United States and Iran in the Middle East from the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, to the Arab Spring uprisings and ongoing Israel-Hamas war. * Eric Lob, Middle East Journal *


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Afshon Ostovar is an Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of the award-winning Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards (Oxford, 2016), and a frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, and War on the Rocks, among other outlets.

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