Product Description: An assessment of the Iran-Iraq War covering its origins, impact and contexts. The book is recommended for most libraries and would be useful for scholars of Iranian and Iraqi affairs.

Product Description: This work sets out Iran's national security policy in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf wars, the disintegration of the USSR, and the end of the Cold War. Without minimizing the potential threat of Iran's armament policies, it identifies areas where Iran may be amenable to influence and dialogue...read more

'Iranian-born Shahram Chubin narrates the recent history of Iran's nuclear program and diplomacy, and argues that the central problem is not nuclear technology but rather Iran's behavior as a revolutionary state with ambitions that collide with the interests of its neighbors and the West'--Provided by publisher.

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Product Description: Iran appears to be pursuing an assertive foreign policy that confronts the United States on a variety of points: the Middle East peace process, the stability of moderate Muslim states, terrorism (such as the death threat to Rushdie), security in the Persian Gulf, and nuclear proliferation...read more

Product Description: Terrorism and the Middle East are often connected. The fear that these will be a future source of threat with weapons of mass destruction, notably nuclear or biological weapons, has grown in recent years. This book looks at the politics of one important state in the region - Iran - and concludes that political reform in that country is changing it in ways that are reducing it as a threat to its neighbours and to international security...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)