British Diplomatic Oil Crisis: Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Geopolitical Rivalries in the Persian Gulf: Drawing a Lesson? Or Sir Anthony Eden‘s Delusion of Grandeur.
Table of Contents
Page Dedication
I
Summary II
Introduction 1
CHAPTER ONE:
Immediate Background to the Crisis: Britain and Iran 7
The theory of state expansionism 7
Britain and Iran 9
CHAPTER TWO: 1948:
Labour and the Coming of the Crisis 18
Oil and British Government
Involvement, 1914-1948 18
Iran and the Oil Question,
1945-1951 24
The Involvement of the Labour
Government, 1948-1951 31
CHAPTER Three: The
Fall of the Labour Government in 1951 43
CHAPTER Four: The
Coming of the Conservative Party to Office in 1951 66
CHAPTER
Five: 1954: The Conservative Government and the Ending of the Crisis
97
The Handling of the Crisis 97
The Aftermath of the Crisis 116
CHAPTER
Six: Britain and the Aftermath of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s Crisis
126
The American Perspective 127
Safeguarding British Interests 131
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