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This selection of essays addresses the general aspects of social change in the Persian Gulf, as well as the specific contours of transformation in different milieus of the region. The book goes beyond the paradigms of security and rentier state to capture state-society linkages, women's role in knowledge economy and social reforms, the directions of democratization, changing dynamics of cities like Dubai, and the interplay of the sacred and secular in the Gulf. ...
The ongoing rivalry between the United States and Iran is an important facet of contemporary international politics. The Iranian revolution has been the central political event that contributed to such a confrontation. This book traces the roots and manifestations of American perceptions of Iran with particular focus on the Iranian revolution and shows the basic flaws of American view and analyses of it. American perceptions are studied here by undertaking a ...