Guardians of the revolution
For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationsh.. Lire la suite
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For over a quarter
century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses. Ever since
Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between
the two nations has been antagonistic: revolutionary guards chanting
against the Great Satan, Bush fulminating against the Axis of Evil,
Iranian support for Hezbollah, and President Ahmadinejad blaming the
U.S. for the world's ills.
The unending war of words suggests an
intractable divide between Iran and the West, one that may very well
lead to a shooting war in the near future. But as Ray Takeyh shows in
this accessible and authoritative history of Iran's relations with the
world since the revolution, behind the famous personalities and
extremist slogans is a nation that is far more pragmatic--and
complex--than many in the West have been led to believe. Takeyh explodes
many of our simplistic myths of Iran as an intransigently Islamist foe
of the West. Tracing the course of Iranian policy since the 1979
revolution, Takeyh identifies four distinct periods: the revolutionary
era of the 1980s, the tempered gradualism following the death of
Khomeini and the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1989, the "reformist"
period from 1997-2005 under President Khatami, and the shift toward
confrontation and radicalism since the election of President Ahmadinejad
in 2005.
Takeyh shows that three powerful forces--Islamism,
pragmatism, and great power pretensions--have competed in each of these
periods, and that Iran's often paradoxical policies are in reality a
series of compromises between the hardliners and the moderates, often
with wild oscillations between pragmatism and ideological dogmatism. The
U.S.'s task, Takeyh argues, is to find strategies that address Iran's
objectionable behavior without demonizing this key player in an
increasingly vital and volatile region. With its clear-sighted grasp of
both nuance and historical sweep, Guardians of the Revolution will stand
as the standard work on this controversial--and central--actor in world
politics for years to come.
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