United States Relations with China and Iran

Osamah F. Khalil is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, USA. He is also serving as Interim Director of Syracuse’s interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies Program and is the author of America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State (2016).

In this wonderful volume, Professor Khalil has assembled a group of young and established scholars to reflect on the state of Sino-American and Iranian-American relations over the last six decades. The result is a treasure trove of brilliant insights and analysis of primary documents pertaining to two of America's most contentious foreign policy relations. Diplomatic historians and aficionados of foreign policy should put this book on their required reading list.

• Introduction: America and the Asian Century Osamah Khalil (Syracuse University, USA)Part I. Toward Normalization: The United States and the People’s Republic of China, 1972-present1. The Carter Administration’s Normalization of Relations with China David P. Nickles (The Office of the Historian, USA)2. Normalizing U.S.-China Relations: Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object Terry Lautz (Syracuse University, USA)3. Authoritarian Resilience and the False Hope of Peaceful Evolution Dimitar Gueorguiev (Syracuse University, USA)4. The United States and China in the Eyes of Chinese International Students Yingyi Ma (Syracuse University, USA)5. The Cornerstone: Trilateral Relations between the US, Japan, and China from 1945-2016 Erik French (Syracuse University, USA)6. The Present and Future of Sino-American Relations David P Nickles (The Office of the Historian, USA), Terry Lautz (Syracuse University, USA), Dimitar Gueorguiev (Syracuse University, USA), Yingi Ma (Syracuse University, USA), and Erik French (Syracuse University, USA)Part II. Toward Confrontation: The United States and Iran, 1953-present7. Revisiting the Coup: Why Did Washington Refuse to Declassify the Coup Documents? Ervand Abrahamian (City University of New York, USA)8. When History Meets Politics: The Challenging Case of the 1953 Coup in Iran Malcolm Byrne (National Security Archive, USA)9. An Event So Inevitable Yet Unforeseen: The United States and the Iranian Revolution David Collier (Boston University, USA)10. Building Security in the ‘Arc of Crisis’: The Carter Administration’s Approach to Southwest Asia and the Persian Gulf Region Adam Howard (The Office of the Historian and George Washington University, USA) and Alexander R. Wieland (The Office of the Historian, USA)11. The Rise of the Iranian Leviathan: US-Iranian Relations and the Evolution of the Post-Revolutionary State Pedram Maghsoud-Nia (Syracuse University, USA)12. The American Factor: The United States, Iran, and the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Abolghasem Bayyenat (Syracuse University, USA)13. The Present and Future of U.S.-Iranian Relations Ervand Abrahamian (City University of New York, USA), Malcolm Byrne (National Security Archive, USA), David Collier (Boston University, USA), Adam Howard (The Office of the Historian and George Washington University, USA), Alexander R. Wieland (The Office of the Historian, USA), Pedram Maghsoud-Nia (Syracuse University, USA) and Abolghasem Bayyenat (Syracuse University, USA)Chapter 14. Afterword: Making Sense of the History of U.S. Foreign Relations: Policy, Practice, Presentism, and the Profession Richard Immerman (Temple University, USA)NotesIndex