Table of Contents

Preface and Introduction Land and People From Empire to Nation Decline and Tumult The Boom Revolution and War Reform vs Hardline Difficulties with the Broader World Summary Maps and Bibliography

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PATRICK CLAWSON is Deputy Director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He has written or edited more than twenty books, primarily on contemporary Middle Eastern politics. Prior to joining The Washington Institute in 1997, his previous positions included four years each as senior economist at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, where he edited the foreign policy quarterly Orbis, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. MICHAEL RUBIN is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterpri

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Patrick Clawson is Deputy Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and senior editor of Middle East Quarterly.

Reviews

' Eternal Iran is a sophisticated and subtle book, a seamless narrative of Iranian history and contemporary politics. A book of careful scholarship, yet accessible to a wide readership. One of the best accounts of recent years on that important and problematic country.' - Fouad Ajami, Author of The Dream Palace of the Arabs