The Iranian Revolution at Forty

ISBN-13: 9780815737933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 251 str.

Suzanne Maloney

Opis

Forty years after the Iranian revolution, more than two dozen experts look back on the rise of the Islamic Republic and explore what the startling events of 1979 continue to mean for the volatile Middle East as well as the rest of the world.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Iran Recast
• 1. A View of the Revolution from the Shah's Palace
• 2. The Revolution's Broken Promises
• 3. Iran's Economy since the Revolution: Populism and Pragmatism
• 4. Revolution, Reform, and the Future of the Islamic Republic
• 5. Poppies and Public Health: 1979 and Narcotics in Iran
• 6. Girls of Revolution Street: Iranian Women since 1979
• Part II: The Revolution and Washington
• 7. “We Used to Run This Country”: How the Revolution Upended an American-Iranian Alliance
• 8. After 1979, America's Torch Song for Tehran
• 9. The Iranian Hostage Crisis and Its Effect on American Politics
• 10. Washington, the Shah, and the Problem of Autocratic Allies
• 11. The Revolution and Washington's Reliance on Economic Pressure
• 12. The Rules of the Game: International Law and Iranian-American Relations
• 13. 1979 and the World's Second Oil Shock
• Part III: The Ripple Effect of Iran's Revolution across the Middle East
• 14. How 1979 Transformed the Regional Balance of Power
• 15. The Iranian Revolution's Legacy of Terrorism
• 16. Iraq and the “First Islamic Revolution”
• 17. Saddam's Monumental Mistakes
• 18. Hezbollah: Revolutionary Iran's Most Successful Export
• 19. The Origins of the Saudi-Iranian Battle for the Broader Middle East
• 20. Coexistence and Convergence in Turkish-Iranian Relations
• 21. Israel's Reverse Periphery Doctrine
• 22. Emboldened and Then Constrained: Repercussions of Iran's Revolution for Sunni Islamists
• 23. In Pakistan, Another Embassy Under Siege
• 24. Bad Judgment and a Chain of Blunders: Soviet Responses to the Iranian Revolution
• Appendix A: Iranian Revolution Timeline of Events
• Appendix B: What to Read to Understand the 1979 Iranian Revolution
• Contributors
• Index