Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-gb8f7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-24T22:41:02.683Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Persian Gulf: Iran's Role. By Rouhollah K. Ramazani. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1972. 157 pp. $7.50. - The Changing Balance of Power in the Persian Gulf: An International Seminar Report. By Elizabeth Monroe. New York: American Universities Field Staff, Inc., 1972. 69 pp. $4.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Ann Schulz*
Affiliation:
Department of Government and International Relations at Clark University

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Reviews
Copyright
Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1973

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Notes

1. The Foreign Policy of Iran, 1500-1941 (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1966).

2. The deja vu aspect of international rivalries in the Gulf is well detailed in Wilson's, Arnold T. The Persian Gulf (London: George T. Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1928)Google Scholar. Wilson was the British Consul at Ahwaz. He deals primarily with the nineteenth century, but has included some material on the seventeenth and eighteenth. Of particular interest is his reference to Franco-Russian attempts to keep Britain out of the Gulf in the 1880s and the corresponding British attempts to woo Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh.

3. A few citations which readers might find interesting, but which are less well-known, are: P. Meyer-Ranke, "Iran's Neue Rolle: Ordungsmacht in Mittlelost," Aussenpolitik 19 (May, 1968), 298-306; J. Pigasse, "Geopolitique due Petrole et Strategie des Grandes Puissance dans le Golfe Persique," Strategie 19 (July-September, 1969), 47-82; and, Sir William Luce, "A Naval Force for the Gulf: Balancing the Inevitable Russian Penetration," The Round Table 59 (October, 1969), 347-356.