Iran Divided - Hunter, Shireen T.
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Iranian politics has been marked by sharp ideological divisions and infighting. These divides, kept largely out of public view until the 1990s, came to greater light with the contested 2009 presidential elections. To explain the diverse and complex forces that led to this event and that animate Iran's current fractured society and polity, author Shireen T. Hunter looks beyond the battle between the forces of reform and reaction, democracy and dictatorship, and considers the historic forces that created the conditions faced by Iran since the revolution. Iran Divided: The Historic Roots of…mehr

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Iranian politics has been marked by sharp ideological divisions and infighting. These divides, kept largely out of public view until the 1990s, came to greater light with the contested 2009 presidential elections. To explain the diverse and complex forces that led to this event and that animate Iran's current fractured society and polity, author Shireen T. Hunter looks beyond the battle between the forces of reform and reaction, democracy and dictatorship, and considers the historic forces that created the conditions faced by Iran since the revolution. Iran Divided: The Historic Roots of Iranian Debates on Identity, Culture, and Governance in the 21st Century explains historical and political factors and their relevance to Iran today, shedding light on the forces behind Iranian politics and society. This book discusses: ·historical roots of Iran's current divisions and debates; ·Iran versus Islam; ·secularism versus religion; ·constitutionalism versus Islamic government; ·fundamental issues of identity, culture, and governance; ·aging of the revolutionary coalition; ·development of new elites; ·experiences of the Islamic republic; ·and new international conditions moving the country beyond old divides and ideological rifts toward a new national consensus. A comprehensive survey, the book will be an indispensable tool to any student seeking to understand the Islamic Republic of Iran and its standing in the world today.
Autorenporträt
Shireen Hunter is a Research Professor at the School of Foreign Service and affiliated with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. From 2007 to 2014 she was a Visiting Professor at the Center and from 2005 to 2007 a visiting scholar working on a project on Reformist Islam funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Before joining the Center she was the director of the Islam Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies with which she had been affiliated since 1983. She has also had appointments at the Harvard Center for International Affairs (Research Fellow, January to August 1979) and Brookings Institution (Visiting Fellow, August 1979-January 1980.) From 1965 to 1979 she was with the Iranian foreign service serving in London, Geneva and Tehran. She attained the rank of Counselor. Hunter is the author of 10 books and 5 monographs and the editor of 6 books and 4 monographs. Her latest publications include: God On Our Side: Religion and International Affairs , Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming December 2016; Iran Divided: The Historical Roots of Iranian Debates on Identity , Culture and Governance, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014; Iran's Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era: Resisting the International Order, Praeger, 2010; Reformist Voices of Islam: Mediating Islam and Modernity, M. E. Sharpe, 2008. She is also the author of more than 40 book chapters and 40 journal articles. She has contributed regularly to various newspapers in the US and the Middle East as well as appearing in the electronic media and has made presentations in many conferences in the US, Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East.