The Iranian revolution at forty

includes appendixes..

A View of the Revolution from the Shah's Palace / Strobe Talbott -- The Revolution's Broken Promises / Ali Fathollah-Nejad -- Iran's Economy Since the Revolution : Populism and Pragmatism / Djavad Salehi-Isfahani -- Revolution, Reform, and the Future of the Islamic Republic / Suzanne Maloney -- Poppies and Public Health: 1979 and Narcotics in Iran / Vanda Felbab-Brown and Bradley Porter -- Girls of Revolution Street : Iranian Women since 1979 / Suzanne Maloney and Eliora Katz -- "We Used to Run This Country" : How the Revolution Upended an American-Iranian Alliance / Suzanne Maloney -- After 1979, America's Torch Song for Tehran / Kenneth Pollack -- The Iranian Hostage Crisis and Its Effect on American Politics / Elaine Kamarck -- Washington, the Shah, and the Problem of Autocratic Allies / Tamara Cofman Wittes -- The Revolution and Washington's Reliance on Economic Pressure / Kate Hewitt and Richard Nephew -- The Rules of the Game : International Law and Iranian-American Relations / Scott Anderson -- 1979 and the World's Second Oil Shock / Samantha Gross -- How 1979 Transformed the Regional Balance of Power / Itamar Rabinovich -- The Iranian Revolution's Legacy of Terrorism / Daniel Byman -- Iraq and the "First Islamic Revolution" / Ranj Alaaldin -- Saddam's Monumental Mistakes / Bruce Riedel -- Hezbollah: Revolutionary Iran's Most Successful Export / Jeffrey Feltman -- 1979 and the Origins of the Saudi-Iranian Battle for the Broader Middle East / Suzanne Maloney and Bruce Riedel -- Coexistence and Convergence in Turkish-Iranian Relations / Kemal Kirisci -- Israel's Reverse Periphery Doctrine / Natan Sachs -- Emboldened and Then Constrained : Repercussions of Iran's Revolution for Sunni Islamists / Shadi Hamid and Sharan Grewal -- In Pakistan, Another Embassy under Siege / Madiha Afzal -- Bad Judgement and a Chain of Blunders : Soviet Responses to the Iranian Revolution / Pavel Baev -- Appendix A. Iranian Revolution Timeline of Events / Suzanne Maloney and Keian Razipou -- Appendix B. What to Read to Understand the 1979 Iranian Revolution / Suzanne Maloney, Eliora Katz, and Keian Razipour.

Includes bibliographical references: notes (at the end of each article) & index..

"Iran's 1979 revolution is one of the most important events of the late twentieth century. The overthrow of the Western-leaning Shah and the emergence of a unique religious government reshaped Iran by dramatically shifting the balance of power in the Middle East and creating serious challenges to the global geopolitical order-challenges that continue to this day. The seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran later that same year and the ensuing hostage crisis resulted in an acrimonious breach between America and Iran that remains unresolved to this day. The revolution also precipitated a calamitous war between Iran and Iraq and an expansion of the U.S. military's role in maintaining security in and around the Persian Gulf. Forty years after the revolution, more than two dozen experts look back on the rise of the Islamic Republic and explore what the startling events of 1979 continue to mean for the volatile Middle East as well as the rest of the world. The authors explore the events of the revolution itself; whether its promises have been kept or broken; the impact of clerical rule on ordinary Iranians, especially women; the continuing antagonism with the United States; and the repercussions not only for Iran's immediate neighborhood, but also for the broader Middle East. This book helps put the Iranian revolution in historical and geopolitical perspective, both for experts who have long studied the Middle East and for curious readers interested in fallout from the intense turmoil of four decades ago"--.