Research Catalog

Revolutionary horizons : regional foreign policy in post-Khomeini Iran

Title: Revolutionary horizons : regional foreign policy in post-Khomeini Iran / John Calabrese.
Author: Calabrese, John.
Publication: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	DS63.2.I68 C35 1994	Off-site

Details

Description

xi, 221 pages : map; 23 cm

Summary

This study examines the sources, characteristics and implications of post-Khomeini Iran's foreign policy. It concentrates on two geographic 'zones of interest': one composed of the countries which surround Iran; the other comprised of Islamic governments and movements beyond Iran's borders. It argues that fears, not just ambitions, have yielded a policy increasingly co-operative (especially in the economic sphere) yet in some respects still confrontational. The study defines 'security' in military and non-military terms to identify the multitude of challenges which have conditioned Iranian foreign policy. Next, it identifies the domestic and external sources of these challenges: notably, the collapse of the Soviet Union, US-Iranian antagonism, deepening economic crisis, and persistent clerical factionalism, regional tension and instability. The study then addresses the post-Khomeini leadership's struggle to pursue economic reform and military rearmament simultaneously. Subsequent chapters are devoted to exploring how, and how successfully, Iran has pursued these aims in its relations with the Arab states of the Gulf; with the Central Asian and Transcaucasian states; with Pakistan and Afghanistan; and with Islamic institutions and movements.

Series Statement

International political economy series

Uniform Title

International political economy series

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and index.

Contents

National security and foreign policy -- Between fear and ambition -- Iran and the Arab Gulf states -- Central Asia and the transcaucasus -- Reaching Eastward -- Revolution and solidarity.

ISBN

0312120958
9780312120955
0333610709
9780333610701

LCCN

93044096

OCLC

ocm29467135
29467135
SCSB-2026464

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library