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The Survival and Future 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 turmo...
A History of Struggle and Survival
Afghanistan's recent history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979; Pakistan-backed internal conflict in the 1980s; the Taliban regime; and then the U...
The Umma in World Politics
Revealing how the one community of the faith in the Qur'an, the umma, affects competing politics of identity in the Muslim world....
Iran from Autocracy to Religious Rule
On November 4, 1979, when students occupied the American Embassy in Tehran and subsequently demanded that the United States return the Shah in exchang...
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq
The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis. Characterised by fractured ...
Foreign Intervention And The Politics Of Legitimacy
This book is a study of regime change in an underdeveloped country with a weak state and strong autonomous social organizations. Regime change is in m...
The Story of America's Intervention in Afghanistan
An incisive, authoritative account of the West's failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan ...
Iran stands at a critical juncture in its history. In the era of Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama, the Islamic Republic has a unique opportu...
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Security in Central Asia
Aiming to connect a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country's past and present instabilit...
The Cases of China, India, Iran, Iraq and Israel
The debate about the roles of states as political and territorial actors, and about their viability as building blocks of stable post-Cold War interna...
Gorbachev's Options
Testing a New World Order?
Social Protest and Authoritarian Rule After the Arab Spring
Introduction: Democratizing the Neighborhood: The Implications of the 'Arab Spring' for the Middle East and Asia. Amin Saikal and Amitav Acharya -- Ch...
Implications Of Gorbachev's 1986 Vladivostok Initiative
This volume provides a useful analysis of the domestic dimension of Soviet foreign policy in Asia/Pacific. It considers the implications of Gorbachev'...
"The volume tackles a number of critical dimensions of the Afghan conflict from a range of perspectives. It essentially explains the nature and comple...