Iranophobia

Author : Haggai Ram
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804771191

Get Book

Iranophobia by Haggai Ram Pdf

Israel and Iran invariably are portrayed as sworn enemies, engaged in an unending conflict with potentially apocalyptic implications.Iranophobia offers an innovative and provocative new reading of this conflict. Concerned foremost with how Israelis perceive Iran, the author steps back from all-too-common geopolitical analyses to show that this conflict is as much a product of shared cultural trajectories and entangled histories as it is one of strategic concerns and political differences. Haggai Ram, an Israeli scholar, explores prevalent Israeli assumptions about Iran to look at how these assumptions have, in turn, reflected and shaped Jewish Israeli identity. Drawing on diverse political, cultural, and academic sources, he concludes that anti-Iran phobias in the Israeli public sphere are largely projections of perceived domestic threats to the prevailing Israeli ethnocratic order. At the same time, he examines these phobias in relation to the Jewish state's use of violence in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon in the post-9/11 world. In the end, Ram demonstrates that the conflict between Israel and Iran may not be as essential and polarized as common knowledge assumes. Israeli anti-Iran phobias are derived equally from domestic anxieties about the Jewish state's ethnic and religious identities and from exaggerated and displaced strategic concerns in the era of the "war on terrorism."

Author : Haggai Ram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080860474

Get Book

Iranophobia by Haggai Ram Pdf

Moving beyond conventional political and strategic analyses of the Israeli-Iranian conflict, Iranophobia shows that Israeli concerns are emblematic of contemporary domestic fears about Israeli identity and society.

Author : Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253018694

Get Book

Deciphering the New Antisemitism by Alvin H. Rosenfeld Pdf

Deciphering the New Antisemitism addresses the increasing prevalence of antisemitism on a global scale. Antisemitism takes on various forms in all parts of the world, and the essays in this wide-ranging volume deal with many of them: European antisemitism, antisemitism and Islamophobia, antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and efforts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. Contributors are an international group of scholars who clarify the cultural, intellectual, political, and religious conditions that give rise to antisemitic words and deeds. These landmark essays are noteworthy for their timeliness and ability to grapple effectively with the serious issues at hand.

Author : Luciano Zaccara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811539244

Get Book

Foreign Policy of Iran under President Hassan Rouhani's First Term (2013–2017) by Luciano Zaccara Pdf

The book deals with President Hassan Rouhani’s conceptual approach to foreign policy. It discusses the main pillars of thinking underpinning Rouhani’s administration and the school of thought associated with it, with a focus on issues pertaining to development as well as international relations. The signature of the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” in 2015 showed the Iranian commitment towards the international requests on guarantees and transparency on its nuclear enrichment program. The book analyses the actual impact of the nuclear deal on the Gulf regional politics, with especial emphasis on the Iran-Saudi Arabia balance of power and the internal implications at political and economic level. It will assess the success or failure of the nuclear deal JCPOA as a foreign policy tool and it impact for Iran and the region. The book also analyses Iran’s relations with other gulf Arab states, Latin America, Africa and its ‘war on terror’ along with its allies Syria and Iraq.

Author : Nader Entessar,Kaveh L. Afrasiabi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498588874

Get Book

Trump and Iran by Nader Entessar,Kaveh L. Afrasiabi Pdf

With the advent of the Trump Administration, relations between Iran and the United States have become increasingly conflictual to the point that a future war between the two countries is a realistic possibility. President Trump has unilaterally withdrawn the US from the historic Iran nuclear accord and has re-imposed the nuclear-related sanctions, which had been removed as a result of that accord. Reflecting a new determined US effort to curb Iran's hegemonic behavior throughout the Middle East, Trump's Iran policy has all the markings of a sharp discontinuity in the Iran containment strategy of the previous six US administrations. The regime change policy, spearheaded by a hawkish cabinet with a long history of antipathy toward the Iranian government, has become the most salient feature of US policy toward Iran under President Trump. This turn in US foreign policy has important consequences not just for Iran but also for Iran's neighbors and prospects of long-term stability in the Persian Gulf and beyond. This book seeks to examine the fluid dynamic of US-Iran relations in the Trump era by providing a social scientific understanding of the pattern of hostility and antagonism between Washington and Tehran and the resulting spiraling conflict that may lead to a disastrous war in the region.

Author : Hamid Dabashi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674504691

Get Book

Persophilia by Hamid Dabashi Pdf

From antiquity to the Enlightenment, Persian culture has been integral to European history. Interest in all things Persian shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians to the present day. Hamid Dabashi maps the changing geography of these connections, showing that traffic in ideas about Persia did not travel on a one-way street.

Author : Mehdi Semati,William P. Cassidy,Mehrnaz Khanjani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030749002

Get Book

Iran and the American Media by Mehdi Semati,William P. Cassidy,Mehrnaz Khanjani Pdf

This book investigates the American media coverage of the historic nuclear accord between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the world powers, commonly known as the Iran Deal. The analysis examines the sources of news and opinion expressed about the Iran Deal in The New York Times, The Washington Post and the national newscast of broadcast networks. The empirical component uses media sociology and indexing theory to determine the extent to which the media covered the topic within a framework of institutional debates among congressional leaders, the executive branch and other governmental sources. The coverage is placed within a larger historical and interpretative framework that examines the construction of Iran in both the pre-revolution news narratives and in the post-revolution American media and popular culture. The book endeavors to reveal the place Iran occupies in the American political and cultural imagination.

Author : Nader Entessar,Kaveh L. Afrasiabi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442242357

Get Book

Iran Nuclear Negotiations by Nader Entessar,Kaveh L. Afrasiabi Pdf

In November 2013, a historic agreement on Iran’s nuclear program was reached between Iran and the world powers, raising the prospects for a long-term agreement that set the stage for normal relations between Iran and the West. This book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the agreement and the protracted process that preceded it.

Author : Shahram Khosravi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780812248876

Get Book

Precarious Lives by Shahram Khosravi Pdf

Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with youth in Tehran and Isfahan as well as with migrant workers in rural areas, Shahram Khosravi weaves a tapestry from individual stories, government reports, statistics, and cultural analysis to depict how Iranians react to the experience of precarity and the possibility of hope.

Author : Haggai Ram
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503613928

Get Book

Intoxicating Zion by Haggai Ram Pdf

“Masterfully illuminates the social and cultural fissures left by colonialism in the Levant as hashish trade transgressed new national borders.” —Paul Gootenberg, Stony Brook University, author of Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug When European powers carved political borders across the Middle East following World War I, a curious event in the international drug trade occurred: Palestine became the most important hashish waystation in the region and a thriving market for consumption. British and French colonial authorities utterly failed to control the illicit trade, raising questions about the legitimacy of their mandatory regimes. The creation of the Israeli state, too, had little effect to curb illicit trade. By the 1960s, drug trade had become a major point of contention in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and drug use widespread. Intoxicating Zion is the first book to tell the story of hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Trafficking, use, and regulation; race, gender, and class; colonialism and nation-building all weave together in Haggai Ram's social history of the drug from the 1920s to the aftermath of the 1967 War. The hashish trade encompassed smugglers, international gangs, residents, law enforcers, and political actors, and Ram traces these flows through the interconnected realms of cross-border politics, economics, and culture. Hashish use was and is a marker of belonging and difference, and its history offers readers a unique glimpse into how the modern Middle East was made. “A fascinating and revelatory tale.” —Ted R. Swedenburg, University of Arkansas “[A] singular, original work of research.” —Yossi Melman, Haaretz “Informative, though (pun intended) sobering, this book is suited for academic libraries.” —Hallie Cantor, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews

Author : Meir Litvak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315448787

Get Book

Constructing Nationalism in Iran by Meir Litvak Pdf

Nationalism has played an important role in the cultural and intellectual discourse of modernity that emerged in Iran from the late nineteenth century to the present, promoting new formulations of collective identity and advocating a new and more active role for the broad strata of the public in politics. The essays in this volume seek to shed light on the construction of nationalism in Iran in its many manifestations; cultural, social, political and ideological, by exploring on-going debates on this important and progressive topic.

Author : Asef Bayat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0804755957

Get Book

Making Islam Democratic by Asef Bayat Pdf

This book looks anew at the vexing question of whether Islam is compatible with democracy, examining histories of Islamic politics and social movements in the Middle East since the 1970s.

Author : Majid KhosraviNik
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268211

Get Book

Discourse, Identity and Legitimacy by Majid KhosraviNik Pdf

This book is a critical study of the ways that discourses of the (national) Self and Other are invoked and reflected in the reporting of a major international political conflict. Taking Iran’s nuclear programme as a case study, this book offers extensive textual analysis, comparative investigation and socio-political contextualisation of national identity in newspaper reporting. In addition to providing comprehensive accounts of theory and methodology in Critical Discourse Analysis, the book provides a valuable extensive discussion of journalistic practice in Iranian and British contexts, as well as offering insights into historical development of ‘discourses in place’ in Iran. Across four separate chapters, major national and influential newspapers from both countries are critically analysed in terms of their micro-linguistic and macro-discoursal content and strategies. The book is a vital source for interdisciplinary scholarship and will appeal to students and researchers across the critical social sciences, particularly those in linguistics, media and communication studies, journalism and international politics.

Author : Pejman Abdolmohammadi,Giampiero Cama
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030453367

Get Book

Contemporary Domestic and Foreign Policies of Iran by Pejman Abdolmohammadi,Giampiero Cama Pdf

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the domestic and foreign politics of Iran, focusing on its complex nature from political, social and cultural perspectives. It has adopted a multidisciplinary approach, combining comparative politics and intellectual and modern history with international relations. It analyses the institutional structure of the Islamic Republic, the main political and social actors and alliances, as well as Iranian opposition forces both inside and outside the country. The book tries to simplify the seemingly intractable complexity of the Islamic Republic by demystifying it and using political science methods to prove that it is a peculiar hybrid regime.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050693766

Get Book

The Gulf Cooperation Council Camp David Summit; Any Results? by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa Pdf