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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Chronology
• Introduction
• Narrating Iran in the twenty-first century
• 1 Modern state formation
• Introduction
• Historical legacy
• Emergence of a modern state
• The last Pahlavi
• Revolution
• The birth of the Islamic republic
• 2 Politics of the Islamic republic
• Introduction
• Constitutional arrangements
• The first ten years
• The second republic
• 1997: Tehran spring
• Neoconservatism rears its head
• Nezam in crisis: Iran’s tenth presidential elections
• Velvet revolution or velvet coup?
• Post-election crisis and the region
• Lame duck president?
• 2013: clocks go forward or back?
• Political power and nuclear politics
• Authoritarian state, democratic society
• 3 Iran’s political economy
• Context
• Iran’s economic development in the post-Second World War period
• Oil drives change
• State-society relations under the monarchy
• Consolidation of dependent capitalism under the monarchy
• Iran’s economy under the Islamic republic
• War and the economy
• The nineties: challenging taboos
• Khatami: torn between economics and politics
• Ahmadinomics takes hold
• A new golden age?
• State-society relations under the Islamic republic
• Sanctions and the economy
• After the sanctions
• 4 International relations
• Introduction
• Historical features of Iran’s international relations
• International relations of a modern state: the Pahlavis
• International relations of the Islamic republic
• The war years
• The pragmatists take charge
• Improvements in international relations
• Détente and the dialogue of civilizations
• Iran and 9/11
• Nuclear politics takes over
• From Khatami to Ahmadinejad
• Foreign policy of the neoconservatives
• Nuclear crisis deepens
• Populist Iran responds to encirclement
• The Islamic republic’s ‘1969 moment’
• The Arab uprisings
• Rouhani aims to open up ‘new horizons’
• Success of nuclear diplomacy
• Geopolitical uncertainties shape policy
• Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index