After Khomeini : Iran under his successors / Saïd Amir Arjomand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arjomand, Said Amir, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iran--History--1979-1997.

Iran.

Iran--History--1997-.

Iran--Politics and government--1979-1997.

Iran--Politics and government--1997-.

Iran--History--Revolution, 1979--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The death of Khomeini did not lead to the collapse of the Islamic state, but the years since 1989 have witnessed many surprising developments in the politics of Iran. This text traces the changes & explains why there has been a resurgence of hardline Islamism following years of liberal reform.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution; Leadership of the Revolution; The Making of Khomeini's Constitutional Order; 2 Dual Leadership and Constitutional Developments after Khomeini; The Constitutional Amendments of 1989; Constitutional Development of Clerical Conciliarism; Contestation of Clerical Domination; 3 Thermidor at Last: Hashemi-Rafsanjani's Presidency and the Economy; The Hydra-Headed Structure of Military and Economic Power; Stalled Political Liberalization; Revolutionary Power Struggle: The Emergence of the Hardliner and the Reformist Factions

4 Revolutionary Ideology and Its Transformation into Islamic ReformismNativism and the Ideology of the Islamic Revolution; From the Islamic Ideology to the Reform of Islam; The Dialectic of Tradition and Modernity and the Making of Post-Islamism; 5 The Rise and Fall of President Khatami and the Reform Movement; The Rule of Law and the Glasnost; Mellowing of the Power Struggle among the Children of the Revolution; Constitutional Politics of the Perestroika; Clerical Councils versus the Majles; Trapped in Their Own Rhetoric and Abandoned

6 Social and Political Consequences of the Integrative RevolutionIran's New Political Class; Social Stratification and Economic Inequality; Urbanization and Migration; Social Mobility through Education and the Mobilization of Women; Consequences of the Iranian Perestroika: Provincial Autonomy, Local Politics, and Presidential Populism; 7 Iran's Foreign Policy: From the Export of Revolution to Pragmatism; The Gulf War as a Turning Point; Transition to Pragmatism in Foreign Policy: Both South and North; The United States Rebuffs Hashemi-Rafsanjani and Woos Khatami Too Late

8 Iran's New Political Class and the Ahmadinejad PresidencyRise of the Revolutionary Guards and Ahmadinejad's Election; The Leader's Little Man Becomes His Own with a Little Help from the Hidden Imam; Populism and the Revival of Islamic Revolutionism; Ahmadinejad's Relations with the Clerical Elite, the Majles, and His Own Stratum; The Revolutionary Guards' Electoral Coup to End the Republic and Inaugurate Clerical Monarchy; 9 Khomeini's Successor: Ayatollah Khamenei as the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Neopatrimonial Domination and Growing into the Office of Leadership

The Supreme Jurist and the Subjugation of the Shi'ite HierarchyProtecting the Islamic Revolution against Cultural Invasion by the West; Growth of the Leader's Personal Power: His Pick from the Second Stratum; Clerical Monarchy: Who Guards the Guardians?; 10 The Hardliners, Foreign Policy and Nuclear Development; Foreign Policy Cartels and the Failure of Pragmatism; President Ahmadinejad's Hardliner Populism and Nuclear Policy; Overview of Post-revolutionary Foreign Policy; Conclusion; Appendix: Two Models of Revolution; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P

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Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771108-1

0-19-974576-5

1-282-32899-9

9786612328992

0-19-973955-2

OCLC:

501273649