A01=Anoushiravan Ehteshami
Author_Anoushiravan Ehteshami
ayatollah
Ayatollah Khamenei
Ayatollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Khomeini's Death
Ayatollah Khomeini’s Death
Ayatollah Montazeri
Category=JP
Category=QRA
Category=QRP
Comet
constitutional reform analysis
Construction Jihad
death
economic reconstruction policy
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Expediency Council
Fourth Majlis
GCC State
Guardian Council
Imam's Line
Imam’s Line
iran
Iran Iraq War
Iranian defence strategy
Iranian political succession dynamics
iraq
IRGC
IRI
islamic
Islamic Republic
Islamic Revolution
KDP
khomeinis
Kuwait Crisis
Middle East
Military Expenditures
montazeri
pahlavi
political consolidation Iran
post-Khomeini Iran
post-revolution governance
President Khamenei
President Rafsanjani
regional security Middle East
republic
UN
war
Product details
- ISBN 9781138436787
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 11 Aug 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
For Iran the years since Ayatollah Khomeini's death have been dominated by the need for political consolidation and economic reconstruction.The book assesses the critical dilemmas of the regime both previous to and since the demise of its first spiritual leader. The vital issues of political succession and constitutional reform are addressed, contributing to an analysis of the structures and politics of power. How these have reflected upon economic policy is considered with close atttention being given to the reform policies of Rafsanjani. Foreign policy and security issues are discussed in both regional and global terms and include a study of Iranian defence strategy and its controversial re-armament drive.The final chapter examines the direction and context of all of these major policy areas, providing an analysis of whether the Islamic Republic truly represents a revolutionary alternative for the Third World or whether in fact it has developed in time to fall within a similar mould to other notable revolutions, casting by the wayside any uniquely Islamic agenda and alternatives.At the heart of this study is the belief that the Islamic regime has, since the cease-fire with Iraq, but more specifically since Ayatollah Khomeini's death passed into a new stage of development, referred to in the book as the `Second Republic'.
Anoushiravan Ehteshami is Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics and Director of Postgraduate Studies at CMEIS, the University of Durham.
