Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin.

Iran in world politics : the question of the Islamic Republic / Arshin Adib-Moghaddam. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2008. - xi, 272 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-264) and index.

Preface -- Introduction: the question of the Islamic republic -- Islamic utopian romanticism and the foreign policy culture of Iran -- Inventions of the Iran-Iraq War and the myth of endemic 'Persian-Arab' enmity -- Iranian-American encounters: the Islamic republic in the neoconservative mind -- Iran's pluralistic momentum and the future of Iranian democracy -- In place of a conlusion: towards critical Iranian studies.

9781850659037 (cloth : alk. paper)

2007044191


Political culture--Iran.
Islam and politics--Iran.


Iran--Politics and government--1997-
Iran--Politics and government--1979-1997.
Iran--Foreign relations--1997-
Iran--Foreign relations--1979-1997.

DS318.83 / .A35 2008

327.55