Oil is one of the most widespread high-density energy sources in the world: its importance for the military-industrial complex became even more evident in the postwar context. In this framework, establishing the conditions for accessing the world's oil-rich areas became essentia…
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The present study attempts to understand the shift that occurred in Saudi-British relations by the year 1953. The tracing of such a shift is dealt with by investigating the development of these relations from 1939 and through to 1953.The research is drawn upon a documentary dipl…
This dissertation analyzes British overtures to Persia in two periods--initial contacts at the start of the seventeenth century, and the re-establishment of diplomatic relations at the beginning of the nineteenth. It argues that the performative nature of British diplomacy in Pe…