Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War

Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War

Speaker: Roham Alvandi, LSE Chair: Toby Dodge, LSE Middle East Centre Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, is often remembered as a pliant instrument of American power during the Cold War. In this lecture and book launch, Roham Alvandi offers a revisionist account of the Shah's relationship with the United States by examining the partnership he forged with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1970s. Dr Alvandi will discuss how the Shah shaped US policy in the Persian Gulf under Nixon and Kissinger, including the CIA’s covert support for the Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq, and the US role in the origins of Iran’s nuclear program. Dr Alvandi will draw on the history of Iran’s Cold War partnership with the United States to examine the potential for Iranian-American cooperation in the Middle East today. Recorded on 16 October 2014.

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Sovereignty in Iran: Challenges to Eurocentrism from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic

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7 Juli 1h 3min

Policy and the Future of Education in Kuwait

Policy and the Future of Education in Kuwait

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted a Kuwait Programme panel discussion highlighting recent education policy issues and trajectories in Kuwait and globally, with a focus on the role of policy in shaping...

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Turkey and the Liberal International Order: Hegemony, Contestation and the Politics of Articulation since 1919

Turkey and the Liberal International Order: Hegemony, Contestation and the Politics of Articulation since 1919

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted the launch of 'Turkey and the Liberal International Order', a new book examining Turkey’s complex and evolving relationship with the liberal international order from ...

29 Juni 58min

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As part of the British Academy Conference 'Algeria: Historical Struggles and Imagined Utopias' organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University. A fa...

18 Juni 1h 16min

Algeria and the Anxiety of Decolonisation: Case Studies in Language and Gender

Algeria and the Anxiety of Decolonisation: Case Studies in Language and Gender

Professor Zahia Smail Salhi is Chair of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester since 2013 and Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science at Sharjah University for the la...

16 Juni 1h 24min

Kurdish Studies Conference: Developing Kurdish Studies as a scholarly field

Kurdish Studies Conference: Developing Kurdish Studies as a scholarly field

This plenary session, delivered as part of the 2026 Kurdish Studies Conference by Marlene Schäfers, University of Utrecht and Kurdish Studies Journal and Welat Zeydanlıoğlu, Kurdish Studies Network, w...

15 Juni 1h 25min

Sudan’s Current War: A Longer View on Peacemaking and Prospects

Sudan’s Current War: A Longer View on Peacemaking and Prospects

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27 Maj 1h 13min

Social Protection and Conflict Prevention in Lebanon and Jordan

Social Protection and Conflict Prevention in Lebanon and Jordan

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8 Maj 57min

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