Abstract Despite its gigantic energy reserves and its privileged position in the region, the Islamic republic is not in an enviable position. The country’s economy…
Country or Region: Iran
Abstract The most important political development affecting the Middle East toward the beginning of the twentieth century was the collapse of the Ottoman and Tsarist…
Abstract Iranian identity has been subjected to different definitions and interpretation by scholars in Iran’s contemporary history. This paper attempts to analyze three most dominant…
Summary The central thesis of this book challenges the anachronistic construction of Iranian identity, claiming that the nationalist historiography first undertaken by the European Orientalists…
Summary The Azerbaijani people have been divided between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan for more than 150 years, yet they have retained…
Abstract Qajar scholars of mid-19th-century Iran were heavily influenced in their construction of Iranian national identity by intellectual models of European nationalism because they were…
Summary Iran’s long history and complex cultural legacy have generated animated debates about a homogenous Iranian identity in the face of ethnic, linguistic, and communal…
Summary This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative…
Abstract Understanding the complex and often contradictory interactions among Turkey, Russia, and Iran is essential to avoiding a wider war in the Middle East, renewed…
Abstract The United States needs to be prepared to use its own asymmetrical operations against Iran. During 1987, CENTCOM and U.S. Special Operations Command developed…
Abstract The emergence of the People’s Republic of China as a major political, economic, and military force in the Middle East has had a great…
Abstract Some officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran have recently renewed threats to close or exercise control over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s threats…
Abstract The Strait of Hormuz is widely viewed as one of the most important maritime chokepoints in existence today – certainly it is the most…
Abstract Some 15 million barrels of oil â more than 18% of daily worldwide oil demand â transit the Strait of Hormuz each day. Many…
Abstract The Strait of Hormuz is a strategic chokepoint in the Arabian Gulf through which ninety percent of all Gulf exports pass –the equivalent of…
