The Islamic Republic of Iran emerged in 1979, replacing the 54-year-old Pahlavi monarchy in what remains the only explicitly anti-Enlightenment revolution in modern history. Over the past forty-five years, the Islamic Republic has defied expectations by...

The American planners of the 2003 Iraqi war sought glory in Iraq’s tribal, communal and political minefields, not realizing that their action might unravel Iraq and threaten regional stability. Behind the façade of ridding Iraq of its weapons of...

This book adopts a thematic and comparative approach to shed light on the antagonism of these two nations. Its first part deals with the Armenian and Azerbaijani self-representation of their nations’ identity and historical territory. This is the core...

This book is a festschrift for Mohammad-Reza Djalili, retired professor at the Graduate Institute for International Relations and Development at Geneva. It contains seventeen articles, divided into two parts: Part One contains articles on domestic politics...

This collection of articles provided a picture of the historic exudes of the thousands o Iranian who left their homeland because of the 1979 revolution. It includes papers written by specialties in anthropology, demography, history, mass communications,...

Since the downfall of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1979, a substantial body of literature has sought to explain the causes and dynamics of his demise. Yet, a striking proportion of these works have been authored by individuals who have neither resided in...

The Syrian Arab Spring Uprising of 2011 offered Kurdish political parties a unique opportunity to address the ongoing government repression of their people through political and diplomatic channels. However, Turkey’s covert support for Syrian Arab...