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Iran under Ahmadinejad : the politics of confrontation
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ISBN: 9780415454865 0415454867 Year: 2007 Volume: 393 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge,


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Luns : een politieke biografie
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ISBN: 9789085069355 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam Boom

Iraq's future : the aftermath of regime change
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ISBN: 0415363896 Year: 2005 Volume: 372 Publisher: New York : Routledge,


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Iran rising : the survival and future of the Islamic republic
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ISBN: 9780691175478 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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When Iranians overthrew their monarchy, rejecting a pro-Western shah in favor of an Islamic regime, many observers predicted that revolutionary turmoil would paralyze the country for decades to come. Yet forty years after the 1978-79 revolution, Iran has emerged as a critical player in the Middle East and the wider world, as demonstrated in part by the 2015 international nuclear agreement. The author describes here how the country has managed to survive despite ongoing domestic struggles, Western sanctions, and countless other serious challenges. He explores Iran's recent history, beginning with the revolution, which set in motion a number of developments, including war with Iraq, precarious relations with Arab neighbors, and hostilities with Israel and the United States. He highlights the regime's agility as it navigated a complex relationship with Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, survived the Gulf Wars, and handled fallout from the Iraqi and Syrian crises. Such success, the author maintains, stems from a distinctive political order, comprising both a supreme Islamic leader and an elected president and national assembly, which can fuse religious and nationalist assertiveness with pragmatic policy actions at home and abroad. But Iran's accomplishments, including its nuclear development and ability to fight ISIS, have cost its people, who are desperately pressuring the ruling clerics for economic and social reforms-- changes that might in turn influence the country's foreign policy.


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How Ukraine became a market economy and democracy
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ISBN: 9780881324273 0881324272 9781441604583 1441604588 9780881325065 0881325066 1282040790 9781282040793 9786612040795 6612040793 Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, DC : Peterson Institute for International Economics,


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Civil wars : a history of ideas
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ISBN: 9780300149821 9780300234244 Year: 2017 Publisher: [Yale] : Yale university press,

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For much of recorded history, the most frequent, horrific, destructive and yet strangely overshadowed form of collective human violence has been civil war. It has shattered communities and scarred imaginations as much as it has shaped nations and staged pivotal moments in world history. Nor has such carnage been confined to the distant past: in the last fifty years almost half the world's countries, especially its poorest, have suffered civil war, with their impact being estimated at about $100 billion per annum, or roughly twice what is spent annually on aid to developing countries. Civil war is also big business. Economists, political scientists, aid agencies, development strategists and governments put major resources into examining the factors that cause civil war, what determines its intensity and duration, how civil wars end, and why they seem so often to recur. In other words it is a global scourge and one that shows no signs of disappearing any time soon.In this important book, historian David Armitage defines and describes civil war over two millennia, from ancient Roman 'bellum civile' to today, with Iraq and Syria as prominent hotspots for concern and debate. Taking a broad historical perspective, Armitage interrogates the moral as well as political consequences of applying or withholding the term 'civil war' to various conflicts, from the absolution of responsibility that comes with relegating a war to 'internal affairs', to rendering other political conflicts as intractably ethnic 'genocides' and perhaps beyond hope of reasonable resolution, to dismissing wholesale warfare as 'someone else's business'. Arguing for a crucial international orientation so often lacking from nationally-focused discussions of civil war that deforms contemporary politics and strategy, this book adds an urgent and vital historical dimension to the ongoing struggle over this massive drain on global resources and shameful blot on humanity's conscience.

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