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
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
Iran’s economy under the Islamic republic
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
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index 2