Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I The Shah and Khomeini Revolutions
"Church" and State in Modernizing Society: The Case of Iran 9
Iran's "White Revolution": A Study in Political Development 16
Iran's Revolution: Patterns, Problems, and Prospects 33
Who Lost America? The Case of Iran 50
Part II Revolutionary Foreign Policies
Khomeini's Islam in Iran's Foreign Policy 71
Iran: Burying the Hatchet 94
Iran's Foreign Policy: Contending Orientations 111
Iran's Export of the Revolution: Its Politics, Ends, and Means 128
The Shifting Premise of Iran's Foreign Policy: Toward a Democratic Peace? 148
Reflections on Iran's Foreign Policy: Defining the "National Interest" 160
Ideology and Pragmatism in Iran's Foreign Policy 184
Reflections on Iran's Foreign Policy: Spiritual Pragmatism 196
Part III Security in the Persian Gulf
Security in the Persian Gulf 215
The Strait of Hormuz: The Global Chokepoint 229
Shiism in the Persian Gulf 240
Sociopolitical Change in the Gulf: A Climate for Terrorism? 263
Part IV International Law and Diplomacy
Who Started the Iran-Iraq War? A Commentary 287
Iran's Hostage Crisis: International Legitimacy Matters 307
Part V The Shah and Israel, Khatami and Bush
Iran and the Arab-Israeli Conflict 319
Iran, Democracy, and the United States 335
Afterword 353
Appendix: The Role of Iran in the New Millennium- A View from the Outside 359
Index 365