Guardians of the revolution : Iran and the world in the age of the Ayatollahs /
For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between the two nations has been antagonistic: revolutionary guards chanting against the Great Satan, Bush fulminating against the Axis of Evil, I...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- pt. I. The revolutionary years
- Khomeini's ideology and Iran's grand strategy
- Relations with the "Great Satan"
- Turmoil in the Levant: Iran, Israel, and the politics of the Arab East
- Iran-Iraq war
- pt. II. The rise of pragmatism and the new priorities
- Pragmatic restraint: Iranian politics during the Rafsanjani era
- Reconciliation diplomacy and its limits
- The Satans
- pt. III. The age of reform
- The odyssey of the reform movement
- September 11 and the politics of fear, hope, and necessity
- pt. IV. Hegemony at last?
- The rise of the new right
- The Ahmadinejad era.