This book critically develops and discusses Iran's geopolitical
imaginations and explores its various foreign-policy schools of
thought and their controversies. In doing so, the book covers
Iran's foreign policy and international relations from "9/11" all
the way to Rouhani's rise (late 2014). Accounting for both domestic
and the international balance of power, the book theorizes the
post-unipolar world order of the 2000s, dubbed "imperial
interpolarity", examines Iran's relations with non-Western
great-powers in that era, and offers a critique of the "Rouhani
doctrine" and its economic and foreign-policy visions. Forged in
the fires and intense deliberations of a PhD, undertaken at a most
unique institution of higher learning in the world, Ali
Fathollah-Nejad has produced one of the most informative and
evocative studies of Iran's foreign policy and international
relations to date. Framed in a highly original theoretical
approach, Ali's nuanced analysis, drawing on a lorry load of
primary and secondary sources, details the process and context of
policy in the Islamic Republic, thus producing an unrivalled and
lasting account of modern Iran's worldview and the behaviour of
this revolutionary state in a fast-changing world. -Anoush
Ehteshami, Professor of International Relations & Director of
the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, School of
Government and International Affairs, Durham University (UK)
Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, Iran in an
Emerging New World Order flashes out the key drivers behind Iran's
international relations since the mid-2000s. Providing evidence for
the material and geopolitical significance of Iran's identity
constructions, the book enriches the debate on the Islamic
Republic's foreign policy and bridges the divide between the
discipline of IR and area studies. -Fawaz A. Gerges, Professor of
International Relations & inaugural Director, LSE Middle East
Centre (2010-13), London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE); author of the forthcoming The 100 Years' War for Control of
the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2021). Ali
Fathollah-Nejad has established himself as one of the most
insightful observers of Iranian politics. Providing the analytical
background to his assessments of Tehran's foreign policy in the
21st century, this book comes out opportunely at a time when a new
U.S. administration is about to re-engage with Iran. -Gilbert
Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International
Relations, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) University
of London A decisive contribution to two avant-gardist fields of
knowledge: Critical geopolitics and Iranian foreign relations.
Anyone interested in cutting-edge research that brings together
International Relations and Iranian Studies will revel in this
important book. -Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor in Global Thought
and Comparative Philosophies, Department of Politics and
International Studies & former Chair (2012-18), Centre for
Iranian Studies, SOAS University of London One of the few to have a
thorough, beyond-the-headlines and forward-looking grasp of Iran,
Ali Fathollah-Nejad offers a brilliant analysis of what is in store
for Iran. A must-read for anybody interested in geopolitics.
-Florence Gaub, Deputy Director & Director of Research,
European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), Paris It is
no longer possible to think of any nation-state without
simultaneously seeing the reflection of an entire changing world in
it. Ali Fathollah-Nejad's prose and politics in Iran in an Emerging
New World Order is the state-of-the-art mapping of the epistemic
shift that seeks to understand the global in the local, and the
domestic in the foreign. The result is a mode of supple and
symbiotic thinking that reveals the way transnational politics
dwells on the borderline where the fate of nations unravels into
the fold of a dysfunctional disorder that has become the fact of
our fragile world. -Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of
Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Iranian politics, outside of a small group of specialists, remains
poorly understood. Iran in an Emerging New World Order helps
demystify this subject. Thoroughly researched, very accessible and
packed with insights, this book, focusing on the Ahmadinejad
period, is highly recommended. It makes an important contribution
to the study of internal Iranian politics, Iran's foreign policy
orientation and the international relations of the Middle East.
-Nader Hashemi, Director, Center for Middle East Studies &
Associate Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies,
University of Denver Ali Fathollah-Nejad has produced an academic
work that is, from my viewpoint, so far the most comprehensive one
concerning Iranian standing in regional and international politics,
its new political elite and their attitude towards the West and the
world order. -Farhad Khosrokhavar, Professor in the Sociology of
Contemporary Iran & Director of Studies at EHESS (Ecole des
hautes etudes en sciences sociales), the School for Advanced
Studies in the Social Sciences, France Since its inception in 1979,
the Islamic Republic's initial foreign policy was based on the
rejection of the bipolar international order under the banner of a
"neither East nor West" policy. By the end of the Cold War and the
emergence of a unipolar order, the Islamic Republic tried to adjust
its approach to deal with the United States as a hegemonic power.
Iran shifted its foreign policy toward the East as soon as the
international order moved from unipolarity in the early 2000s. Why
did Iran turn its foreign policy, and what were the consequences
and ramifications of this shift? Iran in an Emerging New World
Order dives deep to answer these questions. Iran in an Emerging New
World Order is a comprehensive and critical review of Iran's
foreign policy in post-unipolar world. As a delightful read full of
important information and analyses, the book explores the domestic,
regional, and international dimensions and ideational and material
factors that shape and impact the Islamic Republic's geopolitical
imaginations and foreign policy controversies. Fathollah-Nejad
explores Iran's foreign-policy transformation from a unipolar to a
(what he cautions as an increasingly but not fully-fledged)
multipolar order, and its relations with non-Western great-powers
in the 21st century. Written with clarity, Iran in an Emerging New
World Order is a must-read primer for anyone interested in Iranian
politics in particular and Middle East politics in general. -Saeid
Golkar, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Senior Fellow on Iran Policy,
Chicago Council on Global Affairs & author, Captive Society:
The Basij Militia and Social Control in Post-Revolutionary Iran
(Columbia University Press, 2015) A competent, engaged and
impressive study of Iran's foreign policy and its place in the
world. Ali Fathollah-Nejad's most important quality is that he
looks with a wide lens and sees not just Iranian politics and
foreign policy (in which he is clearly an expert) but the dynamics
of the broader world and changes in the international system. This
book is thus a must-read for those interested in Iranian foreign
policy but also in shifts and changes of the international system
into the second decade of the 21st century. -Arash Azizi (New York
University), author of The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and
Iran's Global Ambitions (Oneworld Publications, 2020) In presenting
Iran as sets of complexities - within and how it acts externally;
how it represents itself and is represented by others; its myriad
political and religious cultures, and how these shape the state and
its international relations - and locating those within a
constantly-changing global environment, Fathollah-Nejad provides us
with unique and alternative assessments of how Iran's foreign
policy is shaped within the context of what he calls "Imperial
Interpolarity". The creative interplay of these various factors
makes this an indispensable text for anyone wishing to understand
Iran and its international relations within the current global
political environment. -Na'eem Jeenah, Executive Director,
Afro-Middle East Centre (AMEC), Johannesburg & advisory board
member, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) A
magnificent and conceptually powerful book; an eye opener for those
who essentialize the role of Iran in contemporary International
Relations. This landmark study covers the complexity of Iran's
cultural geopolitics and the diversity of its interlocutors in
21st-century world politics. The book is useful for delving into
the internal dynamics of Iranian politics and its connection with
the spheres of power in international relations. It is a very
methodical book. Theoretically flawless. A deep, brilliant and
enlightening academic text. -Moises Garduno Garcia, Professor in
the Center for International Relations, National Autonomous
University of Mexico (UNAM) In this book, Ali Fathollah-Nejad goes
beyond the usual one-dimensional view that dominates the study of
Iran's foreign policy and presents a comprehensive framework
explaining the interrelated role of socio-cultural, economic and
geopolitical elements in shaping the Islamic Republic's
foreign-policy orientation. The book also focuses on a crucial
period involving two critical transitions: a systemic transition
from the unipolar to the post-unipolar world order and a domestic
one from a hardline to a more moderate worldview. All this makes
the book a valuable contribution to the field. -Hamidreza Azizi,
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Middle East and Africa Research
Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
(SWP) & former Assistant Professor of Regional Studies, Shahid
Beheshti University, Tehran (2016-20) Iran in an Emerging New World
Order provides a timely and original account of foreign-policy
making in the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially the turbulent
first decade of the new millennium. -Kamran Matin, Senior Lecturer
in International Relations, Sussex University & Associate
Research Fellow, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)
Ali Fathollah-Nejad's Iran in an Emerging New World Order builds on
a reliable scientific approach and an informed overview of Iranian
foreign policy. It identifies and examines the different factors
which orientate it, such as its various schools of thought and
their debates, the elites' role, the interplay between structure
and culture, and the one between internal and external realms.
Furthermore, it casts light on the evolution of Tehran's choices,
including its "look to the East". In this new book, Fathollah-Nejad
has provided a challenging study which demonstrates the need to go
beyond conventional framings, to include political culture, and
provides a new evaluation of Iran's international relations. This
is an original and significant contribution to the literature on
international relations, the workings of the Islamic Republic, and
the understanding of the latter's regional and global actions.
-Firouzeh Nahavandi, Professor of Sociology of Development and
Political Science & Director, Institute of Sociology &
Director, CECID (Center for International Cooperation and
Development Studies), Universite libre de Bruxelles (ULB), as well
as President, Graduate School of Development Studies of French
Community of Belgium Through its careful analysis of a modern
political culture in Iran gestated in the context of an encounter
with European colonial modernity and evolved in correspondence with
a catalogue of internal and external others, Ali Fathollah-Nejad's
timely book places contemporary geopolitical concerns against a
much-needed backdrop of colonial and anti-colonial histories.
-Siavash Saffari, Associate Professor of West Asian Studies,
Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Seoul National
University If you really want to dive deep into Iran and understand
the reasons why its leaders are operating in the current crisis,
this is the book you should read. It teaches analysts and
policy-makers to understand the past to act wisely in the future.
-Susanne Koelbl, award-winning Foreign Correspondent, Der Spiegel
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