Reconstruction and Regional Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf

1992 Reconstruction and Regional Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf, first co-editor (with N. Entessar) and contributor, London: Routledge. 306 pages. ISBN: 0-415-06485-6

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
-Hooshang Amirahmadi and Dariush Zahedi

Part I: Persian Gulf in turmoil; political and economic dimensions
Introduction
-Hooshang Amirahmadi
Part II: Islam and Revolution
Why Has Iran Been Revolutionary?
-Nikki R. Keddie
Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Legacy
-George Linabury
A Countersensational Perspective on the Shi'a of Lebanon
-Augustus Richard Norton
Part III: Economic Destrcution and Reconstruction
Economic Destruction and Impaliances in Post-Revolutionary Iran
-Hooshang Amirahmadi
Iranian Economic Reconstruction Plan and Prospects for it's Success
-Hooshang Amirahmadi
Part IV: Iran and the Arab World
Wheels Within Wheels: Iran's Foreign Policy Towards the Arab World
-Anoushiravan Ehtesami
Iran, GCC and the Security Dimensions in the Persian Gulf
-M.E. Ahrari
Non-Provocative Defense in the Persian Gulf
-Nader Entessar
Part IV: Iran and the Superpowers
US Foreign Policy and the Islamic Revolution
-Mohsen M. Milani
Gorbachev's 'New Thinking' and Islamic Iran: From Containment to Reconciliation
-Nader Entessar

Index

About this Book
Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 the Persian Gulf has been a focus of both media and academic attention. The Iran-Iraq War of 1980-8 and the events surrounding the 1991 Gulf War have further enhanced the region's strategic importance.

This book goes beyond a description of recent events by analysing the social, political and economic patterns of interaction between the Gulf states. The argument is strengthened by a consideration of the role of superpowers in the region's political discourse, and of religion as a force of change. Not only do the authors provide an easily accessible basis for explaining the current problems in the region, they also offer their own, sometimes provocative, policy descriptions.

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