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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Takeyh, Ray, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.