Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos (Middle East in Focus) - Softcover

Clawson, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403962766 ISBN 13: 9781403962768

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Synopsis

Exploring continuities and changes, this book provides the historical backdrop crucial to understanding how Iranian pride and sense of victimization combine to make its politics contentious and potentially dangerous. From the struggle between the Shah and

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From the Back Cover:

"An essential guide to a country, and a foreign policy problem, that we ignore at our peril" --Rich Lowry, Editor, National Review

"Eternal Iran is a sophisticated and subtle book, a seamless narrative of Iranian history and contemporary politics. A book of careful scholarship, yet accessible to a wide readership. One of the best accounts of recent years on that important and problematic country."--Fouad Ajami, Author of The Dream Palace of the Arabs

"For those looking at Iran and how it has evolved, the character and roots of its nationalism, the self image of its people and their attitude toward the outside world and the United States, and the potential for internal change away from stifling rule of the mullahs, there is no better book to read. Clawson and Rubin offer a clear picture of a people and a political culture that too often has seemed opaque to American observers." --Ambassador Dennis Ross, Author of The Missing Piece: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace

About the Author:

Patrick Clawson is Deputy Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and senior editor of Middle East Quarterly.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1403962766
• ISBN 13: 9781403962768
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212