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        <marc:leader>000000000000000000000000</marc:leader><marc:controlfield tag="008">00000000000000000000000000000000000Eng00</marc:controlfield><marc:datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0" ><marc:subfield code="a">ایران در نظم نوین جهانی در حال ظهور: از احمدی نژاد تا روحانی [کتاب انگلیسی]</marc:subfield></marc:datafield><marc:datafield tag="260" ind1="" ind2="" ><marc:subfield code="b">Palgrave Macmillan‏‫‭</marc:subfield></marc:datafield><marc:datafield tag="260" ind1="" ind2="" ><marc:subfield code="c">Palgrave Macmillan‏‫‭</marc:subfield></marc:datafield><marc:datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" " ><marc:subfield code="a">  </marc:subfield></marc:datafield><marc:datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2=" " ><marc:subfield code="a">Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
Praise for Iran in an Emerging New World Order
Contents
About the Author
List of Acronyms
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
(A) Studying Iran’s International Relations Amid Changing International and Domestic Power Relations
External Dialectic: Exploring the International Geography of Power (World Order)
Brief Account of International, Domestic and Regional Arenas
Discussing Iran’s International Relations Beyond the Iran–U.S. Stand-off
(B) Structure of the Book
Bibliography
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Chapter 2: A Critical Geopolitics of International Relations: A Theoretical Derivation
Introduction
Iran’s Geostrategic Location: A Salient Spot of Geopolitical Rivalry
Broad Consensus in Iranian Foreign-Policy Studies: Interplay Between Structure/Culture and Internal/External
(A) Engaging with the “Constructivist Turn” in IR Theory: On Constructivism and Critical Geopolitics
Blind Spots on the Realist Radar
Critical Geopolitics: Critically Investigating Geopolitical Representations
Constructivism: The Social Construction of National Interests
The Construction of Interests: Primacy of Ideational or Material Underpinnings?
IR Scholarship in the IRI: Geopolitics and Constructivism
(B) Outlining a Critical Geopolitics of International Relations: Defining the Agent–System Arrangement
Summary
The Agent: The State and Its Foreign-Policy Élite
The System Level: An Increasingly Multipolar International System—From Unipolarity to Imperial Interpolarity
Theory
The Dialectic Construction of Foreign-Policy Culture
Agent: The State and Its Élite
The State–Society Complex
The Élite
The Power Élite: Some Conceptual Clarifications
Élite Consciousness
Methodology: Towards Investigating Geopolitics as Structure and as Culture
Geopolitics as Culture
Defining Geopolitical Imaginations and Geopolitical Culture
Geopolitics as Structure
Summary and Conclusion
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Chapter 3: Iranian Geopolitical Imaginations: A Critical Account
Introduction
Prelude: On the Need to Reach Beyond Conventional Framings of Iran’s Foreign-Policy Behaviour
(A) The Roots of Modern Iranian Political Culture: From “Anti-colonial Modernity” to the Islamic Republic
“Anti-colonial Modernity” as Iranians’ Collective Historical Experience and the Shaping of the Three Politico-ideological Formations of Nationalism, Socialism and Islamism
The Islamization of Post-revolutionary Political and Foreign-Policy Culture
How the Iranian Revolution Was Transformed into an Islamic Republic: Towards Islamizing State and Society
Islamizing Foreign Policy
Independence via Non-alignment as Grand-Strategic Preference
Bipolar Political Power-Structure and Foreign-Policy Orientations: The Roots of National-Security Discourses in the IRI
Theoretical Insights
(B) Iranian Political Cultures and Geopolitical Imaginations: On the Geopolitical Significance of an Identity Marker
Nationalism: The Determining Ideology of Modern Iran and the Prime Geopolitical Orbit
Persian Ultra-nationalism and the “Aryan Myth”: Importing Racial Nationalism Made in Europe
Nationalism-Based Geopolitical Imagination
Nationalism and Islamism: Mutual Exclusivity, Amalgam and Continuity
Mutual Exclusivity: Western Nationalism vs. Eastern Islam(ism)
Iranian Blend: Shia Islam as Religious Nationalism
Iranian Grandeur as Nationalist Continuity from the Monarchy to the Islamic Republic
Islamism(s): The Shia and Pan-Islamic Geopolitical Circles
Shia vs. Pan-Islamic Geopolitics
Pan-Islamism’s Third-Worldism
Third-Worldism: The Fountainhead of the Independence Leitmotiv
Third-World Nationalism
Third-Worldism and Islamism in the Face of Imperialism: From Revolutionary Alliance to Imperialist Triumph
The Revolutionary, Anti-colonial Impetus
Incongruity of Islamist Anti-imperialism
Reappraising the 1953 Coup: Third-World Nationalism as Thorn in the Side of Imperialism and Islamism
Independence as Leitmotiv: Distillate from the Triad of Ideational Sources
Conclusion
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Chapter 4: The Islamic Republic of Iran: State–Society Complex and the Political Elite’s Political and Geopolitical Culture
Introduction
(A) The State–Society Complex in the IRI: Exploring the Military–Clerical–Commercial Complex
The Supreme Leader: A Supreme Position of Power and Influence
A Short History of the Rise to Power of the Shia Clergy: On State–Clerical–Commercial Relations
Supreme Leader Khamenei and the Clerical–Commercial Complex
The Military: The IRGC Becoming the Central Body for Élite Recruitment
Khamenei and the IRGC
The Political Economy of the IRI: The State and Para-statal Actors
Concluding Observations
The Political Economy of the IRI’s Longevity: Populism and the Continuity of Class Rule
The Supreme Leader: Neo-sultanism and State–Society Relations
(B) The Political Elite’s Political and Geopolitical Culture
Post-war Governments and Their Agendas
The Reconstruction and Reform Period: 1989–2005
The Neo-conservative Period: 2005–2013
Factionalism and Social Bases
The Traditional Conservatives
The Centrists: The Pragmatic Conservatives
The Reformists (1997–2004)
The Neo-conservatives (2005–2012)
Political and Geopolitical Culture in the IRI: The Élite’s and State’s Identity Constructions and Interests
“Islamic Iran”: Élite Consensus in the IRI
“Islam Is the Only Way”: Constructing the State’s Political Culture and Its Ramifications
The Global Failure of Socialism and Liberalism—And the Triumph of Islam(ism)
Disqualifying Socialism as a Way to Preserve the Capitalist Political Economy of the State
Khamenei’s Islamist Eclecticism: The Worldview of the IRI’s Top Ideologue
Conclusion
Bibliography
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TV Broadcasts (Excerpts)
Expert Interviews With
Chapter 5: Foreign-Policy Schools of Thought and Debates in the IRI
Introduction
(A) Foreign-Policy Institutions
The Role of Think-Tanks
Implications for Foreign-Policy Making
(B) Foreign-Policy Schools of Thought
Islamic Idealists
Pan-Islamism and “Islamic unity”
Deficiencies and Strengths
Regional Power Balancers: Offensive and Defensive Realists
Revisiting Neo-Realist IR Theory
Iran’s (Neo-)Realists: Common Denominators
Iran’s Offensive Realists
Triumphalist Account of Iranian Power
Paradoxical Account of U.S. Power: Powerful but Vulnerable
The Dual National-Security Threat: War Threats a Bluff, but “Soft War” Serious
Iranian Responses: The Primacy of the IRI’s Ideological Sources of Power
“Hard” Responses: Asymmetrical Warfare, Proxy War and So On
Projecting “Soft Power” in the Face of U.S. “Soft War”
Iran’s Defensive Realists
Global Balancers and the “America Question”
Rejectionists: Survival of the “Islamic Revolution” Through Anti-Americanism
Accommodationists
(C) Foreign-Policy Controversies Among Schools of Thought
The Pursuit of “Strategic Depth”: Which Sites to Prioritize?
Perception of Iranian Foreign Policy: Whose Perception Counts?
Framing the Nuclear Conflict with the West
Controversy over Nuclear Diplomacy
On Categorizing the Ahmadinejad Administration’s Foreign Policy
An Unsettled Conflict: How Offensive Realists Hold Iran’s Geopolitical Successes to Their Credit
Conclusion
Shifting Tendencies Rather Than Clear-cut Change
The Modus Operandi of the IRI’s Foreign Policy: The Three Realms
The Maslahat Principle: Or the Primacy of Regime Survival
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Chapter 6: Iran’s International Relations in the Face of U.S. Imperial Hubris: From “9/11” to the Iraq War
Introduction
Theoretical Considerations on Outside–Inside Dynamics
(A) Guiding Principles of Iran’s Policy Towards Afghanistan and Central Asia: Regional Stability as Precondition for Security and Economic Development
(B) The Evolution of National Security and Foreign Policy (Late 2001–Early 2004)
From Toppling the Taliban to the “Axis of Evil” Speech: The Rise and Fall of Defensive Realism
Iranian Security Dilemma: The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend?
The Brief Moment of Defensive Realist Triumph
The “Axis of Evil” Speech: Imperial Hubris and the Weakness of the Defensive Realist Strategy
(C) Towards Iran’s 2003 “Grand Bargain” Offer: Intra-élite Consensus in the Face of a Dual Threat to National and Regime Security
2002: Internal and External Threats Looming
Time for Maslahat: Towards Intra-élite Consensus in 2002
Iran’s Post-Iraq Invasion 2003 Secret “Grand Bargain” Offer: The Revival of Defensive Realism and Renewed Rebuttal Due to U.S. Imperial Hubris
(D) Ramifications on Iran’s Foreign Policy and State–Society Complex: Towards Radicalization
Foreign Policy
Offensive Realism Taking the Wheel of Iran’s Regional Policies
Emboldened Global Rejectionists Paving the Way for the “Look to the East” Policy
State–Society Complex: Externally Aided Para-militarization
Conclusion
Theoretical Observations on “Mutual Constitution”: The Issue of Disjointedness
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Chapter 7: Iran’s International Relations in the Face of Imperial Interpolarity: The “Look to the East” Policy and Multifaceted Impact of Sanctions
Introduction
(A) Iran’s “Look to the East” Policy and Imperial Interpolarity
The “Look to the East” Policy
Iran’s Increasing Alienation from Europe
The “Look to the East” Policy’s Underlying Logic: Asia’s Rise and U.S. Decline
Iranian Assumptions About Bases for Cooperation in Eurasia
Imperial Interpolarity: Concept for Grasping the Emerging New World Order After Unipolarity
Summary
Implications of the Uneven Distribution of Global Power: Adding “the Imperial” and Qualifying Interdependence
The Unrivalled Means of Power at the Hands of a Single State Acting as the Imperial Power
Multiple Faces of Interdependence
Sketching the Configuration of Imperial Interpolarity
The Iran Sanctions Regime: A Prime Example of U.S. Unilateral Power
Imperial Interpolarity in the International Iran Conflict: Through the Prism of World Order
The Primacy of Relations with the U.S.
The Case of Russia
The Case of China
The Case of India
The Question of Status and Tiers in the World Order: Preserving Hierarchy
The 2010 Brazil- and Turkey-Brokered Tehran Declaration: The UNSC Repudiating Aspiring Powers
Iran’s Bid to Join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Keeping Iran at Bay
Conclusion on Iran’s “Look to the East” Policy: Misjudging International Realities
The Emerging New World Order and Implications for Iran as Regional Power: An Iranian Viewpoint Critical of Offensive Realism
(B) Multifaceted Impact of Sanctions
Geo-economic and Geopolitical Costs
Conflict Resolution and Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change
Ramifications on the State–Society Complex
A Magic Wand to Decapitate Evil? The Political Narrative of Empowering Sanctions
The Political Economy of Sanctions: Crippling the Economy and Cementing the Authoritarian State
Sanctions and the Weakening of Civil-Society Actors
Women
Students
Labour
Malign Effects of Sanctions: The General Academic Literature and the Need for an Iranian Case-Study
Prolonging Authoritarian Rule
Furthering State-Sponsored Repression
Conclusions
Conclusion and Some Observations on Iran’s Development
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Chapter 8: Conclusions
Summary
Empirical and Theoretical Findings
On the Role of World-Order Constellations and Its Perception in Shaping Iran’s International Relations
Ideational and/or Material? On the Material and Geopolitical Significance of Identity Constructions
External–Internal and Internal–External Dynamics: Impacting the Trajectory of Iran’s International Relations and Its State–Society Complex
Reflections on the Study’s Findings: Prospects for Iran’s Development and Independence
The 2025 Outlook: Template for a Twenty-First-Century Grand Strategy
Developmentalist Foreign Policy: Objectives and Requirements
Economic Development, National Security and Foreign Policy: A Critical Reading of the Proposed Development Model
Is There a Way Out of the Imperial Interpolar Trap? Developmentalist Foreign Policy and the Fate of the Independence Leitmotiv
Ideas for Future Research
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Note on Foreign-Language Titles
Note on Author Affiliation
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Expert Meetings under “Chatham House” Rules on Iran and the Wana Region
List of Sources: Journals, Newspapers, News Agencies, Websites etc.: Sources on Iran
Other International Outlets Covering West Asian and International Affairs
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