After Khomeini: The Iranian Second Republic

ISBN-13: 9780415108799 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 264 str.

Anoushiravan Ehteshami; A. Ehteshami;Ehteshami Anous

Opis

This is the first analytical study of post-Khomeini Iran to look at crucial policy changes since 1979. Ehteshami argues that Iran is not the threat portrayed by the west, but is capable of emerging as a major world power.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Political succession in republican Iran 2 The emergence of the Second Republic 3 The politics of power in post-Khomeini Iran 4 The revolutionary state in search of an economic system: the Moussavi years 5 State and economy under Rafsanjani 6 Iran’s post-revolution regional policy 7 The foreign policy of the Second Republic 8 Security and defence strategy of the Second Republic 9 The Islamic Republic of Iran: a revolutionary alternative for the Third World?

O autorze

Anoushiravan Ehteshami is Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics and Director of Postgraduate Studies at CMEIS, the University of Durham.