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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Khomeini's Life and Thoughts
• 3. Theoretical Frameworks
• 4. Methodology
• 5. Khomeini and Nationalism
• 6. Khomeini and Prolonging and Normalising the Iran-Iraq War
• 7. Conclusions

This book clarifies Khomeinis views on nationalism, sectarianism, and peace and war by putting the Iran-Iraq war at center of understanding of Khomeinis ideology. Moreover, by making comparisons between Khomeinis thoughts before and after the revolution with his words during the Iran-Iraq war, this book helps us see how his discourse during the conflict was shaped by such thoughts. Also, such a comparison helps us understand the complexities of Khomeinis doctrines and their evolvements. Additionally, by offering a unique set of methodological tools, this book introduces a new way to study political leaders in Iran and other parts of the Middle East. Meysam Tyaebipour is a researcher and human right activist. Meysams area of interests are the Middle East politics and political ideology

This book introduces a new theoretical framework that examines Iran in relation to the theological concept of Anfal, a confiscatory regime seen in Iran since 1979 where public assets belong to the leader of Iran. Through analysing the economic impacts of Anfal, the effects of political capitalism and destructive coordination and how they lead to the economics of hoarding and the flight of capital and labour are highlighted. The economics of predation, ecological disaster, and cooperative coordination are also discussed. This book aims to highlight the economic consequences of Anfal and its role in sustaining destructive condition and shaping the Islamic political capitalism. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the political economy, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. Mehrdad Vahabi is Professor of Economics at University Sorbonne Paris Nord and director of the research center on Economics at North Paris (CEPN) affiliated to the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has published many books in English, French and Persian among them The Political Economy of Destructive Power (Edward Elgar, 2004), The Political Economy of Predation (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has published more than a hundred articles in peer journals and is an editor of Public Choice

• Prologue: Invisible Beings
• Part I Genesis of a plot. Mountbatten
• The friendly skies of South Armagh
• The chancer
• Hunger
• The England Department
• Part II Countdown. The bomb burglar and Mr. T
• Friends
• Rejoice
• Blackpool
• Salcey Forest
• Tightrope
• Room 629
• Clockwork
• A white light
• Part III Manhunt. Wetting worms
• Hypothenar evidence
• Dublin
• London
• Glasgow
• Reckonings
• Epilogue

"A race-against-the-clock narrative that finally illuminates a history-changing event: the IRA's attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and the epic manhunt that followed"-- Provided by publisher
"A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her suite when the explosion occurred; had she been just a few feet in another direction, flying tiles and masonry would have sliced her to ribbons. As it was, she survived--and history changed. There Will Be Fire is the gripping story of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Thatcher, in the most spectacular attack ever linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles. Journalist Rory Carroll reveals the long road to Brighton, the hide-and-seek between the IRA and British security services, the planting of the bomb itself, and the painstaking search for clues and suspects afterward"--Dust jacket flap

• Introduction 1 The left and the defence economy in the early Cold War 2 Guns before butter: Labour's defence review 3 Taking on the defence economy 4 Workers and the defence economy: the case of Lucas Aerospace 5 Post-material protest? Peace activism and the defence economy 6 The defence economy, the left and the 'second Cold War' Epilogue Bibliography
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Forty years before COVID-19, socialists in Britain campaigned for workers to have the right to make 'socially useful' products, from hospital equipment to sustain the NHS to affordable heating systems for the impoverished elderly. This movement held one thing responsible above all else for the nation's problems: the burden of defence spending. In the middle of the Cold War, the left put a direct challenge to the defence industry, the Labour government and trade unions. The response it received revealed much about a military-industrial state that prioritised the making and exporting of arms for political favour and profit. Looking at peace activism from the early 1970s to Labour's landslide defeat in the 1983 general election, this book examines the conflict over the cost of Britain's commitment to the Cold War and asserts that the wider left presented a comprehensive and implementable alternative to the stark choice between making weapons and joining the dole queue. -- .
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• Introduction
• 1. The History of Resistance
• 2. The Ideology of Resistance: Adaptive Resistance
• 3. The Structure of Resistance: Designed Redundancy
• 4. Strategic Influence
• 5. How Iran Does Influence
• 6. Resistance in Iran's Near-Abroad
• 7. Lebanon: The Hizb'allah Model
• 8. Iraq
• 9. Syria
• 10. Conclusion Works Cited.
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Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the strategic culture of resistance has dominated Iran's strategic objective and foreign policy preference formation. Iran is a revisionist state that lacks overwhelming military and economic dominance in its near abroad, as such two pillars have emerged to support and export their strategic culture of resistance. These are Adaptive Resistance (pragmatism) and Designed Redundancy (deniability and insulation). These two themes of resistance provide content and structure to their strategic Influence campaigns, where "strategic Influence is the use of the elements of national power-diplomatic, military, economic, with and through information-to shape the information and operational environment in order to erode the will of the enemy.... This 'new' way of war is predicated on building narratives, activating identities, mobilizing proxies, and disorienting targets through the use of information in service of strategic goals." Strategic influence is the way in which elements of the strategic culture of resistance are executed in Iran's near abroad. To combat and defeat strategic influence campaigns, it is necessary to understand both the strategic cultural factors at play and the strategic influence campaigns that Iran deploys.
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""Le Royaume-Uni des années 1980. Les années Thatcher. Elles sortent toutes de là, les voix de ce livre, elles plongent au creux de plaies toujours béantes, tissent un récit social, la chronique d'un pays, mais plus que cela, elles laissent voir le commencement de l'époque dans laquelle nous vivons et dont nous ne savons plus comment sortir. C'est l'histoire d'un spasme idéologique, doublé d'une poussée technologique qui a bouleversé les vies. Ici s'achève ce que l'Occident avait tenté de créer pour panser les plaies de deux guerres mondiales. Ici commence aujourd'hui : les SOS des hôpitaux. La police devenue force paramilitaire. L'information tombée aux mains de magnats multimilliardaires. La suspicion sur la dépense publique quand l'individu est poussé à s'endetter jusqu'à rendre gorge. La stigmatisation de populations devenues ennemis de l'intérieur. Londres. Birmingham. Sheffield, Barnsley. Liverpool. Belfast. Ancien ministre. Leader d'opposition. Conseiller politique. Journaliste. Écrivain. Mineur. Activistes irlandais. Voici des paroles souvent brutes qui s'enchâssent, s'opposent et se croisent. Comment ne pas entendre ces quelques mots simples venus aux lèvres de l'ancien mineur Chris Kitchen comme de l'écrivain David Lodge : une société moins humaine était en gestation ? Comment ne pas constater que le capitalisme qui prétendait alors incarner le monde libre face au bloc soviétique en plein délitement, est aujourd'hui en train de tuer la démocratie ? Quand la mémoire prend forme, il est peut-être trop tard, mais il est toujours temps de comprendre.""--Page 4 of cover.

• Préface d’Agnès Alexandre-Collier
• Prémisses
• Angle d’approche et principaux questionnements
• 1. Une image politique prédéfinie
• La figure paternelle comme modèle
• Influence de prédécesseurs masculins
• Genre et origines sociales
• Premiers combats
• Féminité
• Masculinité
• 2. Construction et formation d’une image politique
• Habitus bourdieusien
• L’enfance : premier lieu de construction identitaire
• Un système de pensée conservateur
• Habitus et instinct
• Une perspective politique manichéenne
• Valeurs et convictions
• Sens de la justice
• Exigence et perfectionnisme
• Individualisme et conception matérialiste
• Valeurs atlantistes
• Patriotisme
• Valeurs victoriennes
• Vertus morales et religieuses
• Thatcher et thatchérisme
• Élaboration du thatchérisme
• Le thatchérisme et ses préceptes
• Le changement radical
• Des mesures pragmatiques et concrètes
• Le thatchérisme : une idéologie ?
• 3. Réception et reconfigurations de l’image politique thatchérienne
• Transmission et réception de l’image politique
• Valorisation
• Principaux garants de la valorisation
• Construction d’une "star" médiatique
• Valorisation de qualités morales
• Héroïne de guerre
• Valorisation des fonctions du Premier ministre
• Diabolisation des opposants
• Charme de l’apparence
• Une "star" internationale
• Une image valorisée à l’étranger
• Répercussions positives au Royaume-Uni
• Dévalorisation
• Principaux vecteurs de la dévalorisation
• Médias de gauche
• Intelligentsia et artistes
• Église anglicane
• Population britannique
• Parti conservateur
• Opposition et contestations
• Postures excessives
• Matérialisme et individualisme outré
• Condescendance et insensibilité
• Autoritarisme
• Obstination et agressivité
• Inadéquation
• Absence de cohérence et incompétence
• Austérité et manque de charisme
• Maladresses
• Doutes et déceptions
• Une mascarade politique
• Subordination atlantiste
• Contradictions
• Reconfigurations de l’image politique
• Margaret Thatcher et la réception de son image politique
• Des reconfigurations ponctuelles et contextuelles
• Avènement de la politique-spectacle
• Conditionnement par la propagande et la publicité
• Principaux acteurs de reconfiguration
• Techniques de modulation de l’image politique.

"Première femme Premier ministre de Sa Majesté, battant le record de longévité à ce poste, Margaret Thatcher - fille d'épicier méthodiste qui termina baronne à la Chambre des lords - fut une figure majeure de la scène politique occidentale dans le dernier tiers du XXe siècle. Une permanente impeccable, des déclarations sans appel, une volonté inébranlable, un nom associé à un ensemble doctrinal et une pratique gouvernementale qui déclenchèrent admiration et détestation, la mémoire de Margaret Thatcher reste vive au Royaume-Uni comme en dehors. "L'histoire passionnante que nous raconte Yves Golder et qui fourmille d'anecdotes méconnues, est celle d'une femme qui n'a cessé de lutter avec et contre son identité. C'est aussi l'histoire d'une entreprise permanente et éreintante de construction de son image, de déconstruction (par les médias) et de reconstruction a posteriori, qui révèle chez celle qui a pourtant été surnommée la "Dame de fer" une obsession du contrôle mais aussi une vulnérabilité insoupçonnée." (Agnès Alexandre-Collier, Préface)"--Page 4 of cover.

• 1. Social Policy in Iran: An Introduction Pooya Alaedini
• 2. Development of Iran's Social Welfare Institutions Pooya Alaedini and Reza Omidi
• 3. Iran's Health Policy and Healthcare System: Achievements and Challenges Ali Hassanzadeh
• 4. Education Policy in Iran: Developments Over the Past Four Decades Reza Omidi and Pooya Alaedini
• 5. Pension Funds in Iran: Challenges and Options Hessam Nikoupour and Narges Akbarpour-Roshan 6 Iran's Housing Policies for Low-income and Vulnerable Groups: A Critical Assessment Pooya Alaedini and Fardin Yazdani
• 7. Employment Challenges in Contemporary Iran: A Growing Social Policy Conundrum Behrouz Hady Zonooz
• 8. Poverty and Macroeconomic Policies in Iran: A Microsimulation Study Davood Souri.
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This book provides in-depth analyses of the main social policy components and institutions in Iran. Its focus is on the period since 1979, although many of the developments are inevitably traced back to their pre-revolutionary origins. The first part of the book investigates socioeconomic trends and institutional developments-including the significant role played by post-revolutionary para-governmental organizations in the delivery of social programs. The remaining chapters analyze the achievements and challenges of health, education, social insurance, housing, and employment policies as well as the macroeconomics of poverty.
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• Jild-i avval. Nukhustīn dahah-yi inqilāb
• jild-i duvvum. Āghāz dahah-yi duvvum-i inqilāb tā imrūz
• jild-i sivvum. Chihrahʹhā-yi iṭṭilāʻātī va amniyatī
• jild-i chahārum. Lājvardī: yārān va hamrāhānash
• jild-i panjum. Farāz va furūd-i Kānūn-i Vukalā-yi Dādgustarī-i Īrān

• جلد اول. نخستىن دهه‌ى انقلاب
• جلد دوم. آغاز دهه‌ى دوم انقلاب تا امروز
• جلد سوم. چهره‌هاى اطلاعاتى و امنىتى
• جلد چهارم. لاجوردى: ىاران و همراهانش
• جلد پنجم. فراز و فرود کانون وکلاى دادگسترى ايران

• Introduction Arang Keshavarzian and Ali Mirsepassi
• 1. A quiet revolution: in the shadow of the cold war Ali Mirsepassi
• 2. Globalizing the Iranian revolution: a multiscaler history Arang Keshavarzian
• Part I. Global Shadows: 3. Seeing the worlds from a humble corner: a political memoir Ali Mirsepassi
• 4. Iranian diasporic possibilities: tracing transnational feminist genealogies from the revolutionary margins Manijeh Moradian
• Part II. Militarized Cartographies: 5. 'In a forest of humans': the urban cartographies of theory and action in 1970s Iranian revolutionary socialism Rasmus Elling
• 6. Revolutionaries for life: the IRGC and the global guerrilla movement Maryam Alemzadeh
• Part III. Hidden Genealogies: 7. 'A sky drowning in stars': global '68, the death of Takhti, and the birth of the Iranian revolution Arash Davari and Naghmeh Sohrabi
• 8. 'We must have a defense build-up': the Iranian revolution, regional security, and American vulnerability Christopher Dietrich
• Part IV. Circulating Knowledge: 9. The criminal is the patient, the prison will be the cure: building the carceral imagination in Pahlavi Iran Golnar Nikpour
• 10. The cold war and education in science and engineering in Iran, 1953-1979 Hossein Kamali
• Part V. Aspirational Universalisms: 11. Between illusion and aspiration: Morteza Avini's cinema and theory of global revolution Hamed Yousefi
• 12. Planetarity: the anti-disciplinary object of Iranian studies Negar Mottahedeh.
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The Iranian revolution of 1979 not only had an impact on regional and international affairs, but was made possible by the world and time in which it unfolded. This multi-disciplinary volume presents this revolution within its transnational and global contexts. Moving deftly from the personal to the global and from the provincial to the national, it draws attention to the multiplicity of spaces of the revolution such as streets, schools, prisons, personal lives, and histories such as the Cold War and Global 1960s and 70s. With a broad range of approaches, Global 1979 conceives of the Iranian Revolution not as exceptional or anachronistic, but as an uprising constituted by multiple, interwoven geographies and histories, which disrupt static and bounded notions of the local, national, regional, and global.
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• Introduction
• 1. Conceptualising Cultures of Solidarity
• 2. 'We've always stood with anybody who wanted to fight': Mutual Solidarity in the Long 1970s
• 3. 'We're all in Thatcher's sinking ship': Class and Deindustrialisation
• 4. 'Like little soviets': Infrastructures of Solidarity
• 5. 'What it meant to us about equality': Gender, Race and Solidarity
• 6. Sexuality and Solidarity: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
• 7. 'Someone else's dubious battle': The Limits of Solidarity
• 8. 'The world doesn't end': After the Miners' Strike
• Conclusion.
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This book combines radical history, critical geography, and political theory in an innovative history of the solidarity campaign in London during the 1984-5 miners' strike. Thousands of people collected food and money, joined picket lines and demonstrations, organised meetings, travelled to mining areas, and hosted coalfield activists in their homes during the strike. The support campaign encompassed longstanding elements of the British labour movement as well as autonomously organised Black, lesbian and gay, and feminist support groups. This book shows how the solidarity of 1984-5 was rooted in the development of mutual relationships of support between the coalfields and the capital since the late 1960s. It argues that a culture of solidarity was developed through industrial and political struggles that brought together diverse activists from mining communities and London. The book also takes the story forward, exploring the aftermath of the miners' strike and the complex legacies of the support movement up to the present day. This rich history provides a compelling example of how solidarity can cross geographical and social boundaries. This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and activists with an interest in left-wing politics and history.
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