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Review Article: Understanding Iran

Pages 467-476 | Published online: 08 Dec 2008
 

Notes

 1 Norman Podhoretz and Fareed Zakaria, Debate Mediated by Judy Woodruff. The News Hour with Jim Lehrer (PBS, October 29, 2007).

 2 Shadia Drury, The Political Thought of Leo Strauss (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), p. xxxvi.

 3 Hans. Morgenthau, ‘International Morality.’ In Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1993), p. 245.

 4 Alireza Jafarzadeh, The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), p. 210.

 5 Waltz, Kenneth. Theory of International Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979).

 6 See, for example, Graham T. Alison, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1971); Morton H. Halperin, Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1974).

 7 Joe D. Hagan, ‘Does Decision Making Matter? Systemic Assumptions vs. Historical Reality in International Relations Theory.’ International Studies Review 3(2) (Summer 2001).

 8 Helen Milner. Interests, Institutions, and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997).

 9 Steven Lukes. Power: A Radical View (London and New York: Macmillan, 1974), p. 15.

10 Jacqueline Stevens. Reproducing the State (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999).

11 James C. Scott, Seeing Like A State (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998).

12 David Campbell, ‘Global Inscription: How Foreign Policy Constitutes the United States’, Alternatives 15(3) (Summer 1990); David Campbell, Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1992).

13 Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989); Cynthia Enloe, ‘Margins, Silences, and Bottom Rungs: How to Overcome the Underestimation of Power in the Study of International Relations’, The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004).

14 Alireza Jafarzadeh, The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), p. 7.

15 Helene Cooper, ‘Ahmadinejad, at Columbia, Parries and Puzzles’, The New York Times (September 25, 2007).

16 Though Bollinger, President of Columbia University, is not a neoconservative himself, his introduction of Ahmadinejad when the latter came to speak at the University seems to have been an attempt to pander to his critics from this school of thought.

17 Alireza Jafarzadeh, The Iran Threat, p. 208.

18 Alireza Jafarzadeh, The Iran Threat p. 58.

19 Alireza Jafarzadeh, The Iran Threat p. 204.

20 Alireza Jafarzadeh, The Iran Threat p. 121.

21 Alireza Jafarzadeh, The Iran Threat p. 69.

22 Ahmadinejad's predecessor, president from 1997 to 2005.

23 Alireza Jafarzadeh, The Iran Threat, p. 112.

24 Helene Cooper, ‘Ahmadinejad, at Columbia, Parries and Puzzles’, The New York Times (September 25, 2007).

25 Shahram Chubin, Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006), p. 136.

26 Shahram Chubin, Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006) p. 134.

27 Shahram Chubin, Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006) p. 141.

28 Shahram Chubin, Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006) p. 37.

29 Shahram Chubin, Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006) p. 41.

30 Shahram Chubin, Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006) p. 35.

31 Shahram Chubin, Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006) p. 113.

32 Shahram Chubin, Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006) p. 113.

33 Shahram Chubin, Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006) p. 128.

34 Shahram Chubin, Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006) p. 115.

35 Shahram Chubin, Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006) p. 53.

36 Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006), p. 22.

37 Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006) p. 29.

38 Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006) p. 32.

39 Ali A. Saeidi, ‘The Accountability of Para-governmental Organizations (bonyads): The Case of Iranian Foundations.’ Iranian Studies, 37(3, September) (2004).

40 Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic, p. 32.

41 Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic p. 182.

42 Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic p. 127.

43 Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic p. 128.

44 Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic p. 151.

45 Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic p. 186.

46 Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic p. 226.

47 Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic p. 226.

48 E.H. Carr, The Twenty Years Crisis (New York: Harper and Row, 1964), p. 145.

49 Nikki Keddie, ‘The Roots of the Ulama's Power in Modern Iran’, Studia Islamica, 29 (1969), p. 47.

50 Faleh A Jaber, The Shi'ite Movement in Iraq (London: British Library, 2003).

51 Faleh A Jaber, The Shi'ite Movement in Iraq (London: British Library, 2003).

52 Babak Rahimi, ‘Ayatollah al-Sistani and the Democratization of Post-Saddam Iraq’, The Middle East Review of International Affairs, 8.4.2 (December 2004).

53 Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations, p. 197.

54 Problematic in a country composed of Persians, Azeris, Arabs, Baluchis, Kurds and Armenians (to name a few), and the topic of another paper.

55 Matthew C. Wells, ‘Thermidor in the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Rise of Muhammad Khatami’, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 26(1) (May 1999).

56 Alireza Jafarzadeh, The Iran Threat, p. 79, quoted from The Independent.

57 Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran, p. 33.

58 Cynthia Enloe, ‘Margins, Silences, and Bottom Rungs: How to Overcome the Underestimation of Power in the Study of International Relations’, p. 24.

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