It has been the dominant view that both Syria in the 1980s and Iran today have acted as rogue states in the Middle East threatening to upset the stability ...

This book provides a pioneering and original study of the regional effects of political Islam. It sets out the multifaceted interactions between Islam ...

For Iran the years since Ayatollah Khomeini's death have been dominated by the need for political consolidation and economic reconstruction. The book assesses ...