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2.Political History - History and Political Legitimacy: Pre-Islamic Imperial Iran, ideas of kingship and religion
Fozi, Neo-Iranian Nationalism
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, 2017. Kingship and religion in ancient Persia: government research fellowship lectures 2015-2016
Wiesehofer, Josef, 2001. Ancient Persia: From 550 BC to 650 AD
Abdolmohammadi, Pejman. 2013. History, national identity and myths in the Iranian contemporary political thought
3. Political History - Between two Revolutions (1905 - 1979)
Kurzman, C., 2003. The Qum Protests and the Coming of the Iranian Revolution, 1975 and 1978.
4. Political History - The Iran-Iraq War
Tabaar
Segal, David. 1988. "The Iran-Iraq War: A Military Analysis."
Sick, Gary. 1989. "Trial by Error: Reflections on the Iran-Iraq War"
Sterner, Michael. 1984. "The Iran-Iraq War"
Swearingen, Will D. "Geopolitical Origins of the Iran-Iraq War."
Takeyh, Ray. 2010. "The Iran-Iraq War: A Reassessment."
5. Political History - Notions of democracy and the velayat-e faqih
Randjbar-Daemi, S. 2013. Building the Islamic State: The Draft Constitution of 1979 Reconsidered
Mirsepassi, A., 2010. Democracy in modern Iran. Islam, culture, and political change. Introduction
Mirsepassi, A., 2010. Democracy in modern Iran. Islam, culture, and political change. Conclusion: Modernity and Its Traditions
Ridgeon, L., 2022. 'Ahmad Qābel, Religious Secularity and Velāyat-e Faqih in Iran'. Religions. 13(5), 422.
Moussavi, A. K., 1992. 'A New Interpretation of the Theory of Vilayat-i Faqih'. Middle Eastern Studies, 28(1), pp. 101–107.
Arjomand, S. A., 1980. 'The state and Khomeini's Islamic order'. Iranian Studies, 13(1-4), pp. 147-164.
Martin, V., 2000. Creating an Islamic state: Khomeini and the making of a new Iran. Chapter 4 and chapter 5
Martin, V., 2000. Creating an Islamic state: Khomeini and the making of a new Iran. Chapter 6
6. Diplomacy - When diplomacy fails: oil nationalisation and the 1953 coup
Romero article
7. Diplomacy - Iran and the Nuclear Agreement
Notes for Pirseyedi chapter
Notes for Warnaar
Zarif, Mohammad Javad, 2014. ‘What Iran Really Wants: Iranian Foreign Policy in the Rouhani Era’, Foreign Affairs, 93:3, pp 49-59.
Pop, A., 2020. 'Diplomatic negotiations and the Iran Nuclear Deal-between the realistic and liberal paradigms'
Parsi, T., 2017. Losing an enemy: Obama, Iran, and the triumph of diplomacy. Chapter 17 ‘Conclusion’ (pp. 352-380)
Notes for Parsi chapter 17 ‘Conclusion’ (pp. 435-439).
Valadbaygi, K., 2023. 'Unpacking the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal (Jcpoa): Internationalisation of Capital, Imperial Rivalry and Cooperation, and Regional Power Agency.' Politics
8. Diplomacy - Iran and the Arab World
Wastnidge, Edward, 2017. ‘Iran and Syria: An Enduring Axis’, Middle East Policy, Volume 24:2, pp 148-159.
Alavi, S. A., 2019. Iran and Palestine, Past, Present, Future, London: Routledge, 2019. Chapter 2
Alavi, S. A., 2019. Iran and Palestine, Past, Present, Future. London: Routledge. Chapter 5.
Rostami-Povey, E., 2012. 'Iran’s Influence: A Religious-Political State and Society in its Region'. Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 102–104
Saikal, A., 2016. The Arab World and Iran: A Turbulent Region in Transition
Keynoush, B., 2016. Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes?
9. Diplomacy - Iran and the West
Chehabi, H.E., 2001. ‘Sport diplomacy between the United States and Iran’, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 12:1, pp 89-106.
Mirsepassi, Ali. 2019. Chapter 8, "An Elective Affinity: Variations of Gharbzadegi"
Adib-Moghaddam, A., 2009. ‘Discourse and violence: the friend-enemy conjunction in contemporary Iranian-American relations
Ansari, A. M. 2006. 'Iran and the US in the shadow of 9/11: Persia and the Persian question revisited'. Iranian Studies, 39(2), pp. 155-170
Sreberny, A., and Torfeh, M., 2013. Persian Service The BBC and British interests in Iran. Chapter 6
Parsi, T., 2007. Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States. Chapter 20: 'Facing the future, facing reality' (pp. 261-284).
10. Culture - New Persian: language, literature, and national identity
Kia, Mehrdad, ‘Persian Nationalism and the Campaign for Language Purification.’ Middle Eastern Studies 34, no. 2 (1998): 9-36.
Vejdani, Farzin, 2016. Indo-Iranian Linguistic, Literary, and Religious Entanglements_Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, ca. 1900–1940
Mirsepassi, Ali. 2019. The Imaginary Invention of a Nation: Iran in the 1930s and 1970s
12. Culture - One nation? Religious and ethnic minorities in Iran
An-Naim, A. A., 1987. ‘Religious Minorities under Islamic Law and the Limits of Cultural Relativism’, Human Rights Quarterly 9: 1.
13. Culture - Expressions of Iranianness in art, cinema and media
Wastnidge, Edward, 2015. ‘The Modalities of Iranian Soft Power: From Cultural Diplomacy to Soft War’, Politics, November 2015, Vol.35(3-4), pp 364-377.
Dabashi, H., 2019. 'Artists without borders: on contemporary Iranian art', in H. Keshmirshekan, H., ed., Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture. Essays by Hamid Dabashi. London: Anthem Press, chapter 4, pp. 99-137
14. Culture - Gender: culture and resistance
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba, 2002. ‘The Conservative: Reformist Conflict over Women's Rights in Iran’, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Fall, 2002), pp. 37-53.
Kar, M., 2007. ‘Iranian Law and Women’s Rights’, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 4(1), pp. 1-13
Sotoudeh, N., 2023. Women, Life Freedom: Our Fight for Human Rights and Equality in Iran.
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15DISD211-D24/D Political History, Culture and Diplomacy in Iran (Online) October 2023
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