Iran in World Politics

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS, University of London, and Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute. He is the author of 'The International Politics of the Persian Gulf: A Cultural Genealogy', 'Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic', and 'A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism'. Educated at the Universities of Hamburg, American (Washington DC) and Cambridge, where he received his MPhil and PhD, he was the first Jarvis Doctorow Fellow in International Relations and Peace Studies at St. Edmund Hall and the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. He is a frequent contributor to leading newspapers and TV channels around the world.

• ContentsIntroduction1. Islamic Utopian Romanticism and the Foreign Policy Culture of Iran2. Inventions of the Iran-Iraq War and the Myth of Endemic 'Persian-Arab'Enmity3. Iranian-American Encounters: The Islamic Republic in the Neo-conservativeMind4. Iran's Pluralistic Momentum and the Future of Iranian Democracy5. In Place of a Conclusion: Towards Critical Iranian Studies

'Adib-Moghaddam's engaging analysis of the Iranian politics is an effective antidote against the widespread characterisation of the Islamic Republics the centre of the Shi'i crescent and a regime ruled by messianic fanatics who are soon to be armed with nuclear weapons.'