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  • The Great Game in West Asia

    Iran, Turkey and the South Caucasus

    Edited by Mehran Kamrava ...
    The Great Game in West Asia examines the strategic competition between Iran and Turkey for power and influence in the South Caucasus. As much of the world's attention has been diverted to conflicts and flashpoints near and far, a new great game has been unravelling between Iran and Turkey in the South Caucasus. ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Sacred Republic

    Power and Institutions in Iran

    Edited by Mehran Kamrava ...
    This book presents a comprehensive, detailed analysis of the establishment, evolution and current significance of different institutions in today's Islamic Republic of Iran. The volume draws on the insights of a number of Iran experts to examine their establishment, functions and evolution, as a means of understanding Iranian politics and society. The Sacred Republic's specific focus is on the key ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Iran's Look East Policy

    New Directions

    Edited by Mehran Kamrava ...
    Iran's Look East Policy is the first systematic analysis of the causes, manifestations, and consequences of Iran's "Look East" policy and Iranian relations with countries as diverse as Russia, China, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, the Central Asian states, and the South Caucasus. Edited by Mehran Kamrava, the essays in the book are framed around several recent "Look East" developments. The ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • How Islam Rules in Iran

    Theology and Theocracy in the Islamic Republic

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    This study provides a comprehensive examination of the evolution of Islam as a ruling framework in postrevolutionary Iran up to the present day. Beginning with the position and structure of Iran's clerical establishment under the Islamic Republic, Kamrava delves into the jurisprudential debates that have shaped the country's political institutions and state policies. Kamrava draws on extensive ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Triumph and Despair

    In Search of Iran's Islamic Republic

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    Triumph and Despair tells the dramatic story of post-revolutionary Iran's first four decades, from its establishment in 1979 until today. The revolutionary coalition that overthrew the monarchy was at once democratic, populist and Islamic. The Islamists, and the Khomeinists in particular, were able to capitalize effectively on prevailing conditions on the ground; to frame the new republic's ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • A Dynastic History of Iran

    From the Qajars to the Pahlavis

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    This rich dynastic study examines the political histories of Iran's last two monarchical dynasties, the Qajars and the Pahlavis. Tracing the rise and fall of both dynasties, Mehran Kamrava addresses essential questions about how and why they rose to power; what domestic and international forces impacted them; how they ruled; and how they met their end. Exploring over two hundred years of political ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Inside the Arab State

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    The 2011 Arab uprisings and their subsequent aftermath have thrown into question some of our long-held assumptions about the foundational aspects of the Arab state. While the regional and international consequences of the uprisings continue to unfold with great unpredictability, their ramifications for the internal lives of the states in which they unfolded are just as dramatic and consequential. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics

    Edited by Mehran Kamrava ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Persian Gulf politics, history, economics, and society.The volume begins its examination of Ottoman rule in the Arabian Peninsula, exploring other dimensions of the region’s history up until and after independence in the 1960s and 1970s. Featuring scholars from a range of disciplines, the book ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Righteous Politics

    Power and Resilience in Iran

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, the Iranian political system has been subject to diminishing legitimacy. In recent years, various waves of protest have spread across the country and the question of the resilience of the revolutionary state becomes more pressing by the day. Drawing from extensive fieldwork and rare primary sources, Mehran Kamrava provides here a ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Impossibility of Palestine

    History, Geography, and the Road Ahead

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    The “two-state solution” is the official policy of Israel, the United States, the United Nations, and the Palestinian Authority alike. However, international relations scholar Mehran Kamrava argues that Israel’s “state-building” process has never risen above the level of municipal governance, and its goal has never been Palestinian independence. He explains that a coherent Palestinian state has ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Revolution in Iran

    The Roots of Turmoil

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: History of the Middle East
    Observers of Iran have often ascribed the main cause of the revolution to economic problems under the Shah’s regime. This book, first published in 1990, on the other hand focuses on the political and social factors which contributed of the Pahlavi dynasty. Mehran Kamrava looks at the revolution in detail as a political phenomenon, making use of extensive interviews with former revolutionary ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • A Concise History of Revolution

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    Presenting a new framework for the study of revolutions, this innovative exploration of French, Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cuban, Iranian, South African, and more recent Arab revolutions, provides a theoretically grounded and empirically comprehensive demonstration of how revolutions mean more than mere state collapse and rebuilding. Through the examination of multiple historical case studies, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD