I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 224 p. Censorship pervades all aspects of political, social and cultural life in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Faced with strict state control of cultural output, Iranian authors and writers have had to adapt their work to avoid falling foul of the censors. In this pioneering study, Alireza Abiz offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of how...
Berkeley: University of California, 1993. — 103 p. (with illustr.) Абрахамян Е. Хомейнизм: очерки истории и политики Исламской Республики Иран (на англ. яз.) Perceptions of Khomeini. Khomeini's Life and Writings. Fundamentalism or Populism? Khomeini's View of the State. Khomeini's View of Society. The Constitution of the Islamic Republic and Khomeini's Political Testament....
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 344 p. As the architect of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini remains one of the most inspirational and enigmatic figures of the twentieth century. The revolution placed Iran at the forefront of Middle East politics and the Islamic revival. Twenty years after his death, Khomeini is revered as a spiritual and political...
Vij Books India, 2015. — 230 p. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran is a watershed in the history of Iran where Islam had played a dominant role in restructuring and reshaping society as a whole. The fusion of religion with politics and working as ideology is unique in the history of Islam. The structural nature and functional scope of the three branches of the government...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 224 p. More than three decades have passed since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. In that time, theories of modern revolution would suggest a retreat from ideological goals, heralding a phase of institutional development. However, Hamad Albloshi argues that Iran is unique: the current rhetoric of conservative Iranian...
Praeger, 2007. — 361 p. Since his election, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has reversed the more moderate and pluralistic policies of his predecessor and projected himself onto the public scene with headline-grabbing speeches regarding Jews and the state of Israel, open defiance of the UN Security Council on the nuclear issue, and an apparent vision of his country becoming...
AEI Press, 2013. — 272 p. In Iran Unveiled, Middle East expert Ali Alfoneh describes the coming revolt of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and the implications this would have on regional and international politics. As Iran experiences the most important change in its history since the revolution of 1979 and the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the regime in...
Routledge, 2016. — 239 p. The relationship between religion and the state has entered a new phase ever since the Iranian Revolution more than three decades ago. The recent mass uprisings against autocratic rulers in the Arab world have highlighted the potency of Islamist forces in post-revolutionary societies in the region, a force arguably unlocked first by Iran’s version of...
Routledge, 2019. — 270 p. Originally published in 1998. More than half of the chapters were originally presented at the 1985 conference of the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis (CIRA) held at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, as well as additional content. The primary purpose of this book is to analyze transformations in the ideological, political, and social...
Routledge, 2014. — 257 p. The Islamic Republic of Iran: Reflections on an Emerging Economy provides an in-depth study of Iran’s post-1979 Revolution economy under the Islamic Republic, with new material and related journal articles combined in one volume in a reader-friendly style. The volume starts with an overview summarizing the development of the Iranian economy under five...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 189 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-57169-6 This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families. It provides an overview of the history of Iranian prisons, depicts the sub-culture in contemporary Iranian prisons, and highlights the forms that gender discrimination takes behind the prison walls. The book draws on...
Gingko Library, 2019. — 220 p. The surprise election of Hasan Rouhani in 2013 has re-focused attention on the dynamics between Islam and democracy in Iran after the hiatus of the Ahmadinejad presidency. With comparisons being drawn between Rouhani and his predecessor, the late Reformist President Mohammad Khatami, there has never been a better time for a close look at the rise...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 344 p. — ISBN 978-0-521-86762-7 The first full-length study of Iranian nationalism in nearly five decades, this sophisticated and challenging book by the distinguished historian Ali M. Ansari explores the idea of nationalism in the creation of modern Iran. It does so by considering the broader developments in national ideologies...
New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. — 256 p. In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, an active political movement emerged on the streets of Iran's largest cities. Poor people began to construct their own communities on unused urban lands, creating an infrastructure––roads, electricity, running water, garbage collection, and shelters––all their own. As the Iranian...
The MIT Press, 2021. — 265 p. — ISBN 978-0262-54284-5 How Iranians forged a vibrant, informal video distribution infrastructure when their government banned all home video technology in 1983. In 1983, the Iranian government banned the personal use of home video technology. In Underground, Blake Atwood recounts how in response to the ban, technology enthusiasts, cinephiles,...
Oneworld Publications, 2020. — 537 p. — ISBN 978-1-78607-944-2 When the US assassinated Qassem Soleimani in January 2020, he was one of the most powerful men in Iran. The military spearhead for Iranian foreign policy, he enacted the wishes of the country's Supreme Leader, establishing the Islamic Republic as a major force in the Middle East. He masterminded interventions in...
Springer, 2017. — 238 p. First book to deal with post-Islamism, a concept so far discussed only by political scientists and sociologists, from a normative framework. Develops a variety of arguments for an overlapping consensus between Islam and Rawlsian political liberalism. First English book to deal with the political theory of main Iranian religious intellectuals in a...
Crown, 2008. — 288 p. Over the past thirty years, while the United States has turned either a blind or dismissive eye, Iran has emerged as a nation every bit as capable of altering America’s destiny as traditional superpowers Russia and China. Indeed, one of this book’s central arguments is that, in some ways, Iran’s grip on America’s future is even tighter. As ex–CIA operative...
Routledge, 2018. — 112 p. The Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) is a cornerstone of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s existence. It entrenched the newly established regime and provided the means for its consolidation of power in the country following the 1979 Revolution. Officially recognized as the "War of Sacred Defense", the Iranian government has been careful to control public...
Stanford University Press, 2019. — 178 p. An inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic. More than half of Iran's citizens were not alive at the time of the 1979 Revolution. Now entering its fifth decade in power, the Iranian regime faces the paradox of any successful revolution: how to transmit the...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 248 p. Negative portrayals of the West in Iran are often centred around the CIA-engineered coup of 1953, which overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, or the hostage-taking crisis in 1979 following the attack on the US embassy in Tehran. Looking past these iconic events, Ehsan Bakhshandeh explores the deeper anti-imperialistic and anti-hegemonic roots...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 322 p. Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has promoted a Shi'a Islamic identity aimed at transcending ethnic and national boundaries. During the same period, Iran's Armenian community, once a prominent Christian minority in Tehran, has declined by more than eighty percent. Although the Armenian community is recognised by the constitution and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 252 p. Gender and sexuality in modern Iran is frequently examined through the prism of nationalist symbols and religious discourse from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book, Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi takes a different approach, by interrogating how normative ideas of womens bodies in state, religious, and public health...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 209 pp.
Iran’s nuclear program has generated intense controversy ever since the International Atomic Energy Agency reported in 2003 that Iran was secretly pursuing enrichment activities. Although Iranian officials insist the program is peaceful, many in the international community are skeptical of Iran’s stated aims—and some allege there is no...
Syracuse University Press, 2018. — 896 p. The 1979 revolution fundamentally altered Iran's political landscape as a generation of inexperienced clerics who did not hail from the ranks of the upper class--and were not tainted by association with the old regime--came to power. The actions and intentions of these truculent new leaders and their lay allies caused major international...
Routledge, 2014. — 120 p. Terrorism and the Middle East are often connected. The fear that these will be a future source of threat with weapons of mass destruction, notably nuclear or biological weapons, has grown in recent years. This book looks at the politics of one important state in the region - Iran - and concludes that political reform in that country is changing it in...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 280 p. Leadership of the Revolution The Making of Khomeini's Constitutional Order Dual Leadership and Constitutional Developments after Khomeini Thermidor at Last: Hashemi-Rafsanjani's Presidency and the Economy Revolutionary Ideology and Its Transformation into Islamic Reformism The Rise and Fall of President Khatami and the Reform Movement...
Ecco, 2010. — 302 p. From the bestselling author of Saddam comes the definitive biography of Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution and how his fundamentalist legacy has forever influenced the course of Iran's relationship with the West. In February 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after nearly fifteen years in exile and received a hero's welcome. Just as...
Routledge, 2010. — 287 p. — (Iranian Studies). Despite changes in sovereignty and in religious thought, certain aspects of Iranian culture and identity have persisted since antiquity. Drawing on an exploration of history, religion and literature to define Iranian cultural identity and link the Persian past with more recent cultural and political phenomena, this book examines the...
I. B. Tauris, 2007. — 241 p. The election of the hard-line Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Iranian Presidency in 2005 shocked the world. In this compelling book, Iran experts Anoush Ehteshami and Mahjoub Zweiri penetrate the labyrinth of Iranian politics and reveal the forces which brought Ahmadinejad to power. They argue that the power base behind Ahmadinejad represents a kind of...
Asia Times, 2020. — 134 p. The columns selected for this second e-book span 18 years, tracking the Islamic Republic of Iran, in chronological order, throughout the Katami, Ahmadinejad and Rouhani eras.
L, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. - VIII+265 p.
When and why did the United States policy of containment of Iran come about? How did it evolve? Where is it going?
Much has been said about the US policy of dual containment, particularly as it pertains to Iraq. However, there has been little in-depth analysis of this policy when it comes to Iran.
Sasan...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 628 p. — ISBN 978-981-16-3564-9 This book assesses Iran’s role in contemporary geopolitics. In particular, it examines three main intertwining circles: Iran’s development and political challenges, its relationships with neighbouring countries, as well as its relations with the major global powers ― China, the European Union, Russia, and the United...
Regnery Publishing, 2009. — 256 p. Former U.S. Ambassador Dore Gold shows why engaging Iran through diplomacy is not only futile but also could be deadly. In the West, liberal politicians and pundits are calling for renewed diplomatic engagement with Iran, convinced that Tehran will respond to reason and halt its nuclear weapons program. Yet, countries have repeatedly tried...
Routledge, 1987. — 438 p. First published in 1985, this is a comprehensive study of the Middle East's most strategic country, set against the background of the Islamic heritage of Iran and the rise and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Dilip Hiro describes the various phases through which the Islamic revolution has passed, gives an incisive account of the first Gulf War, and...
Tauris Academic Studies, 2009. — 225 p. — (International Library of Iranian Studies) The state of women in Islamic societies is the subject of much interest and heated debate, even as representations in the media rely on inadequate information and misperceptions. Becoming Visible in Iran disputes the widespread stereotypes about Muslim women prevalent in the West, providing a...
I.B.Tauris, 2009. — 288 p. — (International Library of Iranian Studies ). Since the revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted very few Western scholars to conduct research in the country. Here Julia Huang provides a remarkable account of local tribal Iranian life, depicting a community largely beyond the scope and reach of foreign travellers and the Western...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 282 p. Since its revolution in 1978–79, Iran has been viewed as the bastion of radical Islam and a sponsor of terrorism. The focus on its volatile internal politics and its foreign relations has, according to Mehran Kamrava, distracted attention from more subtle transformations which have been taking place there in the intervening years. With...
Routledge, 2013. — 262 p. — (Iranian Studies). Examining Iran’s recent history through the double lens of domesticity and consumer culture, Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran demonstrates that a significant component of the modernization process in Iran advanced beyond political and public spheres. On the cusp of Iran’s entry into modernity, the rules and tenets that had...
Oxford: Osprey, 2002. — 96 p.
The Iran-Iraq War, which ended in August 1988, one month short of its eighth anniversary, was one of the longest, bloodiest and costliest Third World armed conflicts in the twentieth century. Professor Karsh addresses the causes of the Iran-Iraq War, unpacking the objectives of the two belligerents and examining how far objectives were matched by...
Routledge, 1993. — 192 p. This book shows that the Iran's Revolutionary Guard has resisted professionalization on the key aspect of war decision making. It explains how the Guard was able to resist ideological dilution despite its need to adopt a rationalized and complex organizational structure.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. — 264 p. Debates about Islam and Muslim societies have intensified in the last four decades, triggered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and, later, by the events of 9/11. Too often present in these debates are wrong headed assumptions about the attachment of Muslims to their religion and the impossibility of secularism in the Muslim...
Yale University Press, 1990. — 307 p. The contributing authors, heavyweights in Iranian studies, international relations or both, have done more than draw on their past works or peddle pet theories. They have taken the trouble to dig out new facts and to subject many generally accepted versions of American and Soviet policy to extensive and often sharp criticism. A stimulating...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 232 p. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence. This book explores Iran's IRGC and Qods Force, focussing on its development following the Iranian Revolution, and how they have skilfully transformed Iran's defense doctrine to fight an irregular...
I.B.Tauris, 2009. — 289 p. — (International Library of Iranian Studies ) The "war on terror" tends to circumscribe crucial developments in the Islamic world within a narrow definition of "Islamic terrorism." This partial and incomplete perspective fails to comprehend the links between today’s scenario and the Iranian revolution of 1979--a revolution fought in the name of God and...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 690 p. The burden of this book is twofold. The first half is charged with identifying and critiquing the many prejudices and misconceptions that inform popular – and even scholarly – perceptions of Islam and Iran, those rooted in neo-conservative hostility no less than those arising out of pro-regime apologetics or (what we will argue are) misleading...
Doubleday, 2008. — 288 p. A revealing look at Iran by an American journalist with an insider’s access behind Persian walls The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, now an American citizen, Hooman Majd is, in a way, both 100 percent Iranian and 100 percent American, combining an insider’s knowledge of how Iran works with a remarkable ability to...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. — 793 p. "One of America's most astute revealers of Iranian culture and identity."-Reza Aslan, The AtlanticHailed as one of the year's best foreign policy books, Hooman Majd's latest offers dramatic perspective on a country with global ambitions, an elaborate political culture, and policies with enormous implications for world peace. Drawing on...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 996 p. — ISBN 978-0-521-50634-2 Over three decades after the Iranian Revolution reconfigured the strategic landscape in the Middle East, scholars are still trying to decipher its aftereffects. Suzanne Maloney provides the first comprehensive overview of Iran's political economy since the 1979 revolution and offers detailed examinations of two...
London: Routledge, 2003. 288 p.
Foundations of Iran's Persian Gulf policy .
Iran's history in the Persian Gulf.
The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Impact of the Islamic revolution .
Export of revolution.
The hajj and ideological rivalry with Saudi Arabia.
The 1980s: impact of the Iran–Iraq war .
From the Provisional Government to the outbreak of war,...
I.B. Tauris, 2000. — 264 p. This extraordinary book is the first to analyze the ideological roots of an Islamic state as conceived by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Surprisingly the author finds much of the inspiration behind Khomeini’s political thinking being influenced by Western sources—his writings on the supreme Islamic Jurist being affected by Plato’s notions of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 199 p. — ISBN 978-1-107-17167-1 Since the revolution of 1979, scholars have portrayed the Islamic State's industrial development capacity in a negative light. Global isolation, incoherent economic planning, and predatory Islamic institutions are often cited as the reasons for lackluster development. In Iran Auto: Building a Global Industry in...
Routledge, 2012. — 367 p. After the Islamic revolution in Iran, revolutionary leaders had to compromise their ideology. The Iranian ship of state continues to drift in search of an equilibrium between revolutionary convictions and the demands of governance, between religion and state, and Islam and the West.
Routledge, 1990. — 293 p. This book delineates the Islamic revolution's impact mainly on the Muslim Middle East and examines the first decade of the revolution. It deals with the repercussions of the revolution in several Shi'i communities and examines Sunni polemical writings on the Shi'a and the Iranian revolution.
Bloomsbury, 2015. — 336 p. The relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Western World is fraught with challenges and tensions. In order to generate the capacity for greater engagement and dialogue, there is a need for the West to better understand the complex ideological developments that are central to Iran. Majid Mohammadi charts the central concepts and...
University of California Press, 2008. — 312 p. As Iran's nuclear program accelerates, all eyes are on the blacksmith's son who could have his finger on the trigger. Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? What drives him? To whom, if anyone, does he answer? Internationally acclaimed Iranian journalist Kasra Naji has spent years interviewing Ahmadinejad's friends, family, and colleagues to...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Iran's Revolutionary Guards are one of the most important forces in the Middle East today. As the appointed defender of Iran's revolution, the Guards have evolved into a pillar of the Islamic Republic and the spearhead of its influence. Their sway has spread across the Middle East, where the Guards have overseen loyalist support to Bashar...
Routledge, 2021. — 182 p. Examining the trajectory of the secularization of Islam in Iran, this book explains how efforts to Islamize society led, self-destructively, to its secularization. The research engages a range of debates across different fields, emphasizing the political and epistemological instability of the basic categories such as Islam, Sharia, and secularism. The...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 416 p. The Green Movement protests that erupted in Iran in 2009 amid allegations of election fraud shook the Islamic Republic to its core. For the first time in decades, the adoption of serious liberal reforms seemed possible. But the opportunity proved short-lived, leaving Iranian activists and intellectuals to debate whether any path to...
Independently Publishers, 2021. — 272 p. The Iranian Revolution was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the replacement of his government with an Islamic republic under the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a leader of one of the factions in the revolt.
Routledge, 2011. — 241 p. It is often assumed that Iran must necessarily submit to the forces of globalization and liberalize its economy, but the country’s ruling elites have continued throughout the post-revolutionary era to resist these pressures for neo-liberal economic reform, seeking to survive in the battlefield of today’s globalizing economy whilst remaining loyal to...
Belknap Press, 2016. — 679 p. From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of cities. The Iran-Iraq War offers an unflinching look at a conflict seared into the region’s collective...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 357 p. This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran’s connections with non-state entities in the Middle East. Iran’s involvement with political-militant non-states has been at the heart of international and regional security policy for more than three decades. The author analyzes Iran’s non-state foreign policy by focusing on...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 371 p. — ISBN 978-1-108-70162-4 From encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century, and from the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mosaddeq in the 1950s to the current Islamic Republic, Iran's history has rarely been far from...
Georgetown University Press, 2014. — 202 p. Evolving Iran presents an overview of how the politics and policy decisions in the Islamic Republic of Iran have developed since the 1979 revolution and how they are likely to evolve in the near future. Despite the fact that the revolution ushered in a theocracy, its political system has largely tended to prioritize self-interest and...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 246 p. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the strategic culture of resistance has dominated Iran’s strategic objective and foreign policy preference formation. Iran is a revisionist state that lacks overwhelming military and economic dominance in its near abroad, as such two pillars have emerged to support and export their strategic...
London, NY: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2007. - 197 p.
The US sees itself as being locked into a confrontation with Iran, its number one enemy since the invasion of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But, as Roger Howard argues in this compelling and provocative new book, by attempting to isolate Iran, the US may in fact be undermining its own power. For if the US forces the rest of the world to...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 2019. — 454 p. — (The Global Middle East Series). The death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and the marginalisation of leading factions within the political elite, in tandem with the end of the Cold War, harboured immense intellectual and political...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 241 p. Based on extensive interviews and oral histories as well as archival sources, Women and the Islamic Republic challenges the dominant masculine theorizations of state-making in post-revolutionary Iran. Shirin Saeidi demonstrates that despite the Islamic Republic's non-democratic structures, multiple forms of citizenship have developed...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. — 344 p. On the fortieth anniversary of the 1978-79 Iranian revolution, a definitive political picture of the Islamic Republic. When Iranians overthrew their monarchy, rejecting a pro-Western shah in favor of an Islamic regime, many observers predicted that revolutionary turmoil would paralyze the country for decades to come. Yet forty...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 220 p. This volume focuses on interpreting the changing domestic and regional dynamics in the Arab world and Iran. Its chapters discuss an array of countries, events, actors, and issues - from an examination of the Arab Spring and the Tunisian democratic transition, to an exploration of the role of Saudi-Iranian geostrategic rivalry, to the impact of...
Bilgesam Publications, Report No: 35, Istanbul, 2011, 26 p.
The report Iran, the Shia Crescent and the Arab Spring mainly focuses on these issues: Iran’s foreign policy line as of 1979, the Shia factors in Middle Eastern countries, Iran’s influence on these factors, and Tehran’s attitudes and the movements in the face of the rebel movements in the Arab world. Moreover, the...
Potomac Books, 2019. — 234 p. Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At eighteen she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged...
Potomac Books, 2019. — 234 p. Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At eighteen she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 252 p. This modern book analyzes the historical quest of the Islamic Republic of Iran to export its revolution to the Muslim countries in the Middle East and beyond. The authors argue that Iran exported its revolution by using proxies such as Hezbollah, the Iraqi Shite militias, and the Houthis. The study unravels the casual chain behind less-known...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 314 p. — ISBN 978-3-11-074859-8 This book is the first extensive research on the role of poetry during the Iranian Revolution (1979) and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). How can poetry, especially peaceful medieval Sufi poems, be applied to exalt violence, to present death as martyrdom, and to process war traumas? Examining poetry by both Islamic revolutionary...
London ; New York: I.B.Tauris Publishers, 2010. — 400 p. Why is it important to compare the experiences, successes and difficulties of Mohammad Khatami and Mikhail Gorbachev, two leaders operating in very different political environments and cultures? Both men were products of two of the 20th century’s most momentous revolutions and both sought to reform from within the...
Routledge, 2014. — 295 p. The mystery of how an Islamic dictatorship came to power remains more than thirty years after the Islamic Republic's inception in Iran. The precise nature of a regime that calls itself both a republic and Islamic but is neither is little understood. The ayatollahs' unpopularity may have reached unprecedented heights, but their power seems more secure....
Routledge, 2019. — 255 p. This book gives an account of Shirley's trip into Iran as a spy to provide an insight into modern Iranian character. It is a vivid, firsthand portrait of the clash of Western and Muslim civilizations. The book portrays Iranians in a way different from what the most Americans know about them.
University of Nebraska Press, 2021. — 192 p. In Empire of Terror Mark D. Silinsky argues that Iran is one of the United States' deadliest enemies. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known as the Guards, bring Iran's sway over much of the greater Middle East and pose a growing existential threat to Western security. Providing insights gained from his thirty-eight years as an...
Routledge, 2017. — 236 p. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been dubbed the ‘kingmaker’ in recent studies of Iranian politics, precipitating heated debates surrounding the potential militarization of the Iranian regime and giving rise to paradoxical understandings of the IRGC; whether as a military institution entering politics, or a political institution with a...
Regnery Publishing, 2016. — 379 p. The author of The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS and The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran returns with the sharp wit and boundless courage needed to expose the oncoming storm from Iran. In his extraordinary new book, The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran, New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer reveals: How the Iranian "nuclear...
I.B.Tauris, 2013. — 288 p. — (International Library of Iranian Studies 41). The Islamic Republic of Iran has entered its fourth decade, and the values and legacy of the Revolution it was founded upon continue to have profound and contradictory consequences for Iranian life. Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices,...
I.B. Tauris, 2010. — 225 p. The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreading news of the protests. The internet is often...
I.B. Tauris, 2010. — 225 p. The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreading news of the protests. The internet is often...
Zed Books, 1982. — 245 p. So far a really fascinating and helpful book that conveys a sense of what was happening to women's status in revolutionary Iran. It includes articles by leftist, feminist Iranian women (who are understandably freaking out), excerpts from primary documents (such as the new constitution, and comments from Khomeini, Bani Sadr, and Taleghani on the...
Публицистическая книга, на англ. яз. — NY: Encounter Books, 2010. — 474 p.
Критический взгляд иранского политэмигранта на эволюцию исламского режима. Автор подробно рассматривает институты Исламской Республики, основные социальные силы, перспективы урегулирования отношений с Западом.
The World’s Number-One Power.
The Haven of Jihad.
The Focus of the Universe.
The Triple...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 313 p. Empirically rich and theoretically informed, this book is an innovative analysis of political decentralization under the Islamic Republic of Iran. Drawing upon Kian Tajbakhsh's twenty years of experience working with and researching local government in Iran, it uses original data and insights to explain how local government...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 321 p. "Guardians of the Revolution" provides useful analysis of the Iranian regime since the founding of the Islamic Republic. Takeyh does a good job describing the various factions within Iran's government and the challenges that moderates faced when trying to normalize relations with the West. I have not read any other books on Iran, so I can't...
Times Books, 2006. — 275 p. For more than a quarter of a century, few countries have been as resistant to American influence or understanding as Iran. The United States and Iran have long eyed each other with suspicion, all too eager to jump to conclusions and slam the door. What gets lost along the way is a sense of what is actually happening inside Iran and why it matters....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 239 р. This book clarifies Khomeini’s views on nationalism, sectarianism, and peace and war by putting the Iran-Iraq war at center of understanding of Khomeini’s ideology. Moreover, by making comparisons between Khomeini’s thoughts before and after the revolution with his words during the Iran-Iraq war, this book helps us see how his discourse during...
Potomac Books, 2019. — 360 p. We know the current political narrative: Iran is dangerous, full of terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. But Christopher Thornton here tells a different story: one of good food, liberal-minded people, beautiful architecture, and a country with a history spanning over seven thousand years that’s been influenced not only by the myriad cultures...
Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2013. - 62 p.
Iran’s half-century nuclear odyssey has been marked by enormous financial costs, unpredictable
risks, and unclear motivations. The program’s covert history, coupled with the
Iranian government’s prohibition of open media coverage of the nuclear issue, has prevented
a much-needed internal debate about its...
University of California Press, 2021. — 262 p. Since Iran's 1979 Revolution, the imperative to create and protect the inner purity of family and nation in the face of outside spiritual corruption has been a driving force in national politics. Through extensive fieldwork, Rose Wellman examines how Basiji families, as members of Iran's voluntary paramilitary organization, are...
New York: SUNY Press, 2002. — 284 p. Social Change in Iran is an inquiry into the recent changes in Iran, blending scholarly analysis, eyewitness accounts, and the author's personal experiences. It tells the stories of everyday people, be it young men and women challenging the cultural and social mandates of the Islamic Republic, or workers toiling at multiple jobs to overcome...
Routledge, 2017. — 176 p. The analysis of the impediments to political development is one of the most important discussions which has major theoretical and political consequences. This analysis has been controversial and many different aspects have been introduced as elements for political underdevelopment. In this study, Dal Seung Yu takes culture, a key element in this...
Casemate Pub, 2010. — 432 p. In May 1987 the US frigate Stark, calmly sailing the waters of the Persian Gulf, was suddenly blown apart by an Exocet missile fired from an Iraqi jet fighter. A fifth of the ship's crew was killed and many others horribly burned or wounded. This event jump started one of the most mysterious conflicts in American history: "The Tanker War," waged...
М.: Политиздат, 1987. - 319 с.
В книге воссоздается картина острой внутриполитической борьбы в Иране после революции 1978—1979 гг. Большое внимание уделяется международному положению Ирана, событиям, связанным с ирано-иракской войной.
М.: Политиздат, 1987. - 319 с.
В книге воссоздается картина острой внутриполитической борьбы в Иране после революции 1978—1979 гг. Большое внимание уделяется международному положению Ирана, событиям, связанным с ирано-иракской войной.
Монография. — М.: Восточная литература, 2002. — 384 с. — ISBN: 5-02-018307-5. В монографии проведен комплексный анализ экономического потенциала ИРИ в первой половине 90-х годов на основе выявления динамики общественного продукта, его накопительной основы и развития производительных сил страны по отраслям народного хозяйства. Статистическое обозрение второй половины десятилетия...
В 2-х томах. — М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2019. — 536 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89394-307-8. Предлагаемая читателю работа – посвящена исследованию военного потенциала и военной политике Исламской Республики Иран. Данная книга представляет собой обобщенный мате-риал на основе открытых источников информации, как отече-ственных, так и зарубежных, по вооруженным силам Ирана, их...
В 2-х томах. — М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2019. — 498 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89394-307-8 Предлагаемая читателю работа – посвящена исследованию военного потенциала и военной политике Исламской Республики Иран. Данная книга представляет собой обобщенный материал на основе открытых источников информации, как отечественных, так и зарубежных, по вооруженным силам Ирана, их состоянию и...
Сборник статей. — Москва: Садра: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2019. — 256 с. — (Исламский и доисламский мир: история и политика). — ISBN: 978-5-907041-23-3. Предлагаемый вниманию читателя сборник содержит статьи российских и иранских авторов, касающиеся различных аспектов Исламской революции и развития Исламской Республики Иран. Основное внимание уделено идеологическому...
М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2013. — 226 с.
В книге рассматривается иранская ядерная программа, включая её возможные военные составляющие, потенциальные средства доставки ядерного оружия, а также взаимоотношения Тегерана с МАГАТЭ и "шестёркой" международных посредников по урегулированию иранского ядерного кризиса. Основное внимание уделено перспективам разрешения этого...
М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2011. - 268 с. Научный редактор - С.Ф. Сутырин, доктор экономических наук, профессор, заслуженный работник высшей школы Российской Федерации, заведующий кафедрой Мировой экономики Санкт-Петербургского Государственного Университета. Мнение автора не обязательно отражает позицию Института. Содержание Введение. Причины введения санкций в отношении...
М.: Московский Центр Карнеги, 2010. - 31 с. Брошюра посвящена российской точке зрения на иранскую проблему. Рассмотрена внутриполитическая обстановка в Исламской Республике. Проанализированы интересы России в регионе Большого Ближнего Востока, их совместимость с интересами других внешних игроков, в первую очередь США. Дан перечень позиций, определяющих разумную, по мнению...
М.: ИВ РАН, 2022. — 324 с. В книге анализируются идеологические и законодательные основы экономической политики ИРИ после исламской революции 1979 г., рассматриваются особенности экономического курса различных правительств, их соответствие исламским принципам и конституциональным основам, попытки выйти за рамки религиозного диктата. Также дана характеристика санкционной...
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН; Крафт+, 2001. — 280 с. — ISBN: 5-89282-185-4; ISBN: 5-93-675-023-Х. Вошедшие в сборник статьи дают представление о сущности уникального для XXI века государственного строя в Иране - об исламской республике, его структуре и содержании, изменениях политики режима и эволюции взглядов исламских и государственных лидеров. Особое внимание уделено...
М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2010. - 268 с. Мнение автора не обязательно отражает мнение института. Содержание . Об авторе. Введение. Глава I. Иран и Центральная Азия: новое знакомство после десятилетий отчуждения. Глава II. Иран - Республика Узбекистан: трудный диалог. Глава III. Иран - Республика Казахстан: соседи по Каспию. Глава IV. Иран - Республика Таджикистан: не...
М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2009. - 376 с. Мнение автора не обязательно отражает позицию Института. Содержание . Об авторе. Предисловие издателя. Введение: Израиль - Иран: от дружбы к вражде. Глава I. Евреи и Иран. Опыт взаимоотношений до XX в. Глава II. Еврейская община в Иране в XX в. (до Исламской революции 1979 г.). Глава III. Государство Израиль и Иран эпохи...
М.: Эхо Бук, 2009. — 49 с. В своем уникальном исследовании Карим Саджадпур представляет всесторонний обзор политических взглядов и пути аятоллы Али Хаменеи, Высшего руководителя Ирана, основываясь на тщательном изучении его трудов и речей за три десятилетия.
Учебное издание. — М.: Издательство Московского университета, 2014. — 512 с. — ISBN: 978-5-19-010869-9. На широком спектре российских и зарубежных источников исследованы уникальные особенности современного военного строительства в Исламской Республике Иран (ИРИ). Представлен всесторонний анализ военной мощи ИРИ, дана оценка совокупного оборонного потенциала и его элементов:...
Ереван: Нораванк, 2006. — 173 с. Книга посвящена истории и проблемам российско-иранского сотрудничества в ядерной сфере. Исследование предназначено для специалистов в области ядерного нераспространения, экспортного контроля, а также для широкого круга читателей, интересующихся проблемами международной и региональной безопасности. Предисловие. Режим нераспространения ядерного...
М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2007. - 248 с. Книга посвящена проблеме, связанной с подготовкой ядерной программы Ирана, а так же участию России в реализации атомного проекта этой страны. Книга рассчитана на специалистов и лиц, интересующихся данной проблематикой. Мнение автора не обязательно отражает позицию Института. Оглавление . Предисловие издателя. Предисловие. Глава I....
М.: Институт изучения Израиля и Ближнего Востока, 1999. - 210 с.
В монографии рассматриваются итоги так называемого курса на экспорт исламской революции, проводимый в Иране, начиная с 80–х и вплоть до 90–х годов XX столетия, которые в целом окончились с негативными результатами. В связи с этим обосновывается необходимость перехода к курсу «экспорта исламской культурной...
Диссертация... кандидата исторических наук : 07.00.03 . М.: Без издательства, 2012. 284 с. Исследование посвящено изучению своеобразия социально-исторического развития Исламской Республики Иран и анализу тех условий и факторов, которые определили содержание и основные направления деятельности государственной власти. Анализ показал, что в Иране с 1979 по 2008 г. не было...
Диссертация... кандидата исторических наук : 07.00.03 . М.: Без издательства, 2012. 284 с. Исследование посвящено изучению своеобразия социально-исторического развития Исламской Республики Иран и анализу тех условий и факторов, которые определили содержание и основные направления деятельности государственной власти. Анализ показал, что в Иране с 1979 по 2008 г. не было...
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