Iran At The Crossroads

Miron Rezun was born in Israel and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and has travelled in and published widely on the Soviet Union and the Middle East. His current areas of interest are Soviet science and technology and the problems of the Soviet nationalities. His articles have appeared in Etudes Internationales, the International Journal, Queen's Quarterly, and Problems of Communism. He has written in French for AGORA and Le Monde and has published a collection of articles for the Centre Quebecois des Relations lnternationales in Quebec City. One of his books, The Soviet Union and Iran About the Contributors XV (Westview, 1988), has become the definitive study of Soviet-Iranian relations during the Reza Shah period. He has also authored a book entitled The Great Struggle (1990) and another on Canadian-Iranian relations (forthcoming in 1991) and is currently working on a book dealing with ethnicity and the nationalities in the USSR.

• Introduction Part One: Two Perspectives on Iranian Foreign Policy 1. The "Pariah" Syndrome: The Complexities of the Iranian Predicament 2. Religious Dogma and the Economic and Political Imperatives of Iranian Foreign Policy Part Two: Iran and its Non-Arab Neighbors 3. Relations with Pakistan and India 4. Iran and Turkey: Permanent Revolution or Islamism in One Country? Part Three: Iran and the Middle East Situation 5. Iran and the Arab World 6. Iran's Relations with Israel, Syria, and Lebanon Part Four: Focus on the Iran-Iraq War 7. Iran and the War: From Stalemate to Cease-fire 8. The Legacy of the Iran-Iraq War Part Five: Iran and the Superpowers 9. Double Demons: Cultural Impedance in U.S.-Iranian Understanding 10. The Soviet Union and Iran: Changing Relations in the Gorbachev Era Part Six: Conclusion 11. The Internal Struggle, the Rushdie Affair, and the Prospects for the Future