The Islamic republic and the world: global dimensions of the Iranian revolution / Maryam Panah

1. The Iranian Revolution in international context: a theoretical perspective
A theoretical framework: causes and consequences
Revolution and the Islamic Republic: an analysis

2. The Iranian Revolution: internal and external causes
Historical legacy of foreign influence in Iran
Socio-economic development and structural change
The revolutionary coalition
Evolution of a revolutionary discourse: international influences

3. Populism and the Revolution: domestic and international impact
Populism and 'Khomeinism'
The revolutionary centrifuge: a fragmenting coalition
Khomeinism: nationalism, anti-imperialism, universalism
Khomeinism's decisive moment: 1979-80
The domestic consequences
International consequences
Export of revolution: Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon and the Gulf

4. International containment of the Islamic Republic
After the hostage crisis
The Iraqi response: onset of the Iran-Iraq war
Regional policies of containment: the Gulf states and beyond
The United States and the West: policy in the 1980s
Exporting revolution: a unique failure

5. Populism, war and the state
'War populism' and revolutionary images of the international system
Popular mobilisation and war contributions
War, populism and repression
Development of the instruments of state coercion
Abasement of 'social populism'
Social basis of the war

6. State crisis and change
State, revolution and class: a theoretical explanation
The critical conjuncture: external and internal pressure and the economy
The end of an era? The important concept of 'maslehat'

7. Reform and reaction 1990-2005
The reform years
The conservative backlash

8. Revolutionary foreign policy and international tension
Revolutionary continuity: Islamic universalism
Military and security strategy
International tension