Gregory Brew is Kissinger Visiting Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. He is a historian of modern Iran, the Cold War, and international oil. He has written extensively on contemporary issues of energy and geopolitics, and his work has appeared in Iranian Studies, The International History Review, and the Texas National Security Review.

'This is not only a book about great power politics – Brew reveals in gripping detail how internal debates and US pressures over different planning and development strategies determined the oil and foreign policy of Iran. It includes an exciting 'revisionist' interpretation of Mossadegh's failed attempt to nationalise oil in the early 1950s.' Giuliano Garavini, Roma Tre University

• Introduction; 1. Iran, global oil, and the United States, 1901–1947; 2. 'We have done nothing': the Seven-Year Plan and the failure of dual integration in Iran, 1947–1951; 3. The Mosaddeq Challenge: nationalization and the isolation of Iranian oil, 1951–1952; 4. The collapse narrative: the coup and the reintegration of Iranian oil, 1952–1954; 5. The petrochemical paradise: oil-driven development and the Second Plan, 1954–1963; 6. The golden goose: Iran, the Consortium, and the first OPEC crisis, 1954–1965; 7. Controlled revolution: expertise, economics, and the American view of Iran, 1954–1965; Epilogue.

Gregory Brew is Kissinger Visiting Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. He is a historian of modern Iran, the Cold War, and international oil. He has written extensively on contemporary issues of energy and geopolitics, and his work has appeared in Iranian Studies, The International History Review, and the Texas National Security Review.

'This is not only a book about great power politics – Brew reveals in gripping detail how internal debates and US pressures over different planning and development strategies determined the oil and foreign policy of Iran. It includes an exciting 'revisionist' interpretation of Mossadegh's failed attempt to nationalise oil in the early 1950s.' Giuliano Garavini, Roma Tre University

• Introduction; 1. Iran, global oil, and the United States, 1901–1947; 2. 'We have done nothing': the Seven-Year Plan and the failure of dual integration in Iran, 1947–1951; 3. The Mosaddeq Challenge: nationalization and the isolation of Iranian oil, 1951–1952; 4. The collapse narrative: the coup and the reintegration of Iranian oil, 1952–1954; 5. The petrochemical paradise: oil-driven development and the Second Plan, 1954–1963; 6. The golden goose: Iran, the Consortium, and the first OPEC crisis, 1954–1965; 7. Controlled revolution: expertise, economics, and the American view of Iran, 1954–1965; Epilogue.

Gregory Brew is Kissinger Visiting Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. He is a historian of modern Iran, the Cold War, and international oil. He has written extensively on contemporary issues of energy and geopolitics, and his work has appeared in Iranian Studies, The International History Review, and the Texas National Security Review.

'This is not only a book about great power politics – Brew reveals in gripping detail how internal debates and US pressures over different planning and development strategies determined the oil and foreign policy of Iran. It includes an exciting 'revisionist' interpretation of Mossadegh's failed attempt to nationalise oil in the early 1950s.' Giuliano Garavini, Roma Tre University

• Introduction; 1. Iran, global oil, and the United States, 1901–1947; 2. 'We have done nothing': the Seven-Year Plan and the failure of dual integration in Iran, 1947–1951; 3. The Mosaddeq Challenge: nationalization and the isolation of Iranian oil, 1951–1952; 4. The collapse narrative: the coup and the reintegration of Iranian oil, 1952–1954; 5. The petrochemical paradise: oil-driven development and the Second Plan, 1954–1963; 6. The golden goose: Iran, the Consortium, and the first OPEC crisis, 1954–1965; 7. Controlled revolution: expertise, economics, and the American view of Iran, 1954–1965; Epilogue.