"In Revolution and Aftermath: Forging a New Strategy toward Iran, Eric Edelman and Ray Takeyh examine one of the most underappreciated forces that has shaped modern US foreign policy: American-Iranian relations. They argue that America's flawed reading of Iran's domestic politics has hamstrung decades of US diplomacy, resulting in humiliations and setbacks ranging from the 1979-81 hostage crisis to Barack Obama's concession-laden nuclear weapons deal. What presidents and diplomats have repeatedly failed to grasp, they write, is that 'the Islamic Republic is a revolutionary state whose entire identity is invested in its hostility toward the West.' To illuminate a path forward for American-Iranian relations, the authors address some of the most persistent myths about Iran, its ruling elite, and its people. They discuss the ways Iran played a vital role in US grand strategy after World War II. They discuss the Ayatollah Khomeini's worldview--including his view of the United States as 'the Great Satan'--and his remarkably durable legacy, which has animated decades of Iranian policies even when such policies are detrimental to the country's other stated national interests. Finally, they highlight lessons leaders can learn from America's many missteps since the 1979 Islamic Revolution." -- publisher.

• Foreword. The Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection: possibilities and limitations / by Eiichiro Azuma
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. The Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection / by Kaoru "Kay" Ueda
• Essay. Roots of the Issei: exploring early Japanese American Newspapers / by Andrew Way Leong
• References
• About the author.

Roots of the Issei presents a complex and nuanced picture of the Japanese American community in the early twentieth century: a people challenged by racial prejudice and anti-Japanese immigration laws trying to gain a foothold in a new land while remaining connected to Japan. Against this backdrop, Andrew Way Leong examines the emergence of generational terms that have long been used to organize Japanese American narratives: issei (first generation), nisei (second generation), and sansei (third generation). In the process, he suggests these widely-used generational concepts are in fact a recent construct. Leong's illuminating research is made possible by the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection, the world's largest open-access, full-image, and searchable online digital collection of Japanese American newspapers. With this technology, Leong is able to analyze materials that until recently were regarded as beyond computer-aided analysis, due to difficulties presented by the complexity of Japanese language. With access to these primary sources, Leong is able to upend several scholarly assumptions and beliefs and present a never-before-seen picture of Japanese American struggles-both with an adversarial host country and among themselves-backed by the authority of primary sources.
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• Dedication Acknowledgments Contents Introduction PART I - THE SONGS AND THEIR CREATORS
• Chapter 1 THE SONGS OF THE WAR YEARS: Themes, Tunes, and Trends Prewar Songs and Their Influence Blitzkrieg: The Early War Songs Farewell to Normality: The Early Lyrical Songs War Is Here To Stay: Songs about Wartime Life Victory on the Horizon: The Tone Shifts Victory Becomes a Reality Chronologies, Shifts, and Variations in The Wartime Songs
• Chapter 2 THE SOLDIERS OF THE SONG FRONT: Composers and Poets during the War The Composers The Poet-Lyricists Relations between Composers and Poets Remuneration: Contracts and Contests Amateur Song Writing Critiques and Debates on Song
• Chapter 3 COMMAND AND CONTROL: Official Policy and Institutional Responsibility over Song The Creative Unions Party and State Structures Trade Unions and Other Organizations Military Involvement Censorship Control International Relations and the Arts Conclusions PART II - SONG DISTRIBUTION AND RECEPTION
• Chapter 4 PRINT, PLASTIC, AND SOUND WAVES: Mass Media and Song Distribution Songbooks and Other Musical Publications Newspapers Radio Records Film Conclusions
• Chapter 5 BALL GOWNS AND BOMBS: Performers and Brigades in Battle and at Home Diversity and Quantity of Performance Groups The Response to War The Experience of War: Brigade Travel, Performances and Living Conditions At the Front In Home Towns In the Rear Working Together PART III - SONG RECEPTION AND LEGACY
• Chapter 6 FROM DAWN 'TIL DUSK: Song in Everyday Life Audience and Memory Children's Experiences Home Front Adult Experiences Song at the Front The Power of Song
• Chapter 7 THE LEGACY OF THE WAR SONGS The Audience The State Fans and Idols Song Function The Legacy in the Body Post War Images of Freedom Conclusion Bibliography
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2 Appendix 3.
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A woman wearing a ballgown singing in the snow for returning ski troops; a technician's tears ruining a master recording of a new wartime song; fresh recruits spontaneously standing and doffing their caps to a new song, thereby creating the new wartime anthem. This well researched, multi-faceted book depicts the relationship between song and society during WWII in the USSR. Chapter topics range from the creation and distribution of the songs to how the public received and shaped them. The body of song that came out of that era created a true cultural legacy which reflected both the hearts of the individuals fighting as well as the narrative of the party and state in bringing the nation to victory.
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• Global news networks and state power
• Western global news networks and state power
• 1: diplomacy
• Western global news networks and state power
• 2: intelligence
• Non-western global news networks: diplomacy and intelligence gathering
• Conclusion
• Interview with Terry Phillips
• Methodology.

• Preface
• Introduction
• Compliance and resistance under autocracy
• State- and nation-building in Iraq, 1973-1979
• War burden and coalitional politics, 1980-1991
• Political implications of economic embargo, 1991-2003
• Collaboration and resistance in Iraqi Kurdistan
• Political orientation and Ba'th Party participation
• Rumors as resistance
• Religion, identity, and contentious politics
• Military service, militias, and coup attempts
• Conclusion.

A new account of modern Iraqi politics that overturns the conventional wisdom about its sectarian divisions How did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century? The conventional wisdom about Iraq's modern political history is that the country was doomed by its diverse social fabric. But in State of Repression, Lisa Blaydes challenges this belief by showing that the country's breakdown was far from inevitable. At the same time, she offers a new way of understanding the behavior of other authoritarian regimes and their populations. Drawing on archival material captured from the headquarters of Saddam Hussein's ruling Ba'th Party in the wake of the 2003 US invasion, Blaydes illuminates the complexities of political life in Iraq, including why certain Iraqis chose to collaborate with the regime while others worked to undermine it. She demonstrates that, despite the Ba'thist regime's pretensions to political hegemony, its frequent reliance on collective punishment of various groups reinforced and cemented identity divisions. At the same time, a series of costly external shocks to the economy--resulting from fluctuations in oil prices and Iraq's war with Iran--weakened the capacity of the regime to monitor, co-opt, coerce, and control factions of Iraqi society. In addition to calling into question the common story of modern Iraqi politics, State of Repression offers a new explanation of why and how dictators repress their people in ways that can inadvertently strengthen regime opponents.
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