...Kaveh Ehsani This essay presents three snapshots of the historical politics of pipelines (oil, natural gas, and water) in Iran since the turn of the twentieth century in order to juxtapose the variegated power struggles around seemingly similar pieces of materials transport technology. Pipelines...

...John Shelton Curtiss Russia and the West in Iran, 1918-1948: A Study in Big-Power Rivalry . By Lenczowski George . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1949 . Pp. xv , 383 . $4.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 407 on this war written from...

...Bruce R. Kuniholm Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience and Iran . By Rubin Barry . New York, Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1980 . Pp. xii , 426 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 BOOKS Paved with Good Intentions: The American...

... and religious forces in defense of “democratic freedoms” against the threat of clerical domination in the 1979 revolution's aftermath. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Iran Antonio Gramsci Jalal Al-e Ahmad Manūchehr Hezārkhānī In this article, I...

..., the period of the 1980s and the decision by the United States to intervene directly in the closing stages of the Iran-Iraq war marked a new era in which energy and conflict have become permanently entangled. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 oil war oil flow Persian Gulf energy security...

..., Sadequain Naqqash in Pakistan, Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi in Iran, Shakir Hassan Al Sa'id in Iraq, and many others created a new aesthetic language of calligraphic figuration and abstraction. Their groundbreaking artistic projects can be understood in a variety of ways: as individual and subjective...

...) is unsettled, and in some ways, cannot be settled. It is an open problematic for us. This interregnum entails two theoretical developments of note: first, intense forms of intervention around Marx’s thought outside France (specifically in Brazil, Italy, Japan, and Iran). Second, a wager on new, affirmative...

... and the political turmoil rooted in an inability to construct a new power bloc turned Caesarism in the person of Erdoğan into a process of political transition similar to those in Russia, Iran, and Egypt. Hence, the structural crises of the Kemalist Republic, merged with the historical crisis of Islamism, became...

... to pass judgment. Theodore Ropp. Russia and the West in Iran, 1918-1948: A Study in Big-Power Rivalry. By George Lenczowski. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1949. Pp. xv, 383. $4.50. This indictment of Soviet actions in Iran over the last thirty years indicates that the dynamism has been supplied...

... Conditions in Iran deteriorated rapidly, with inflation and the apparent Soviet ascendancy demoralizing many of the population, while the proSoviet Tudeh party grew apace. Finally, we are told the familiar story of the Soviet attempt to stay on in Iran after the evacuation date and of the role of the United...

... writings, Foucault takes as a starting point what people are already doing and, on the basis of their struggles, articulates elements that could form part of a future political project. 372 The South Atlantic Quarterly • Spring 2012 Biopolitical Struggle in Iran Foucault interpreted the 1978...

... . Taussig Michael . 2015 . “The Mastery of Non-Mastery.” Public Seminar , August 7 . www.publicseminar.org/2015/08/the-mastery-of-non-mastery/ . Vali Abbas . Forthcoming . Modernity and the Stateless: The Kurdish Question in Iran . I. B. Tauris . AGAINST...

... trade and infra- structure deal) and Iran (a billion nuclear reactor program), and the continuation of military hardware sales to China all have raised questions 7 about the future direction of Russia. Turkey’s Real Choice Turkey, in thinking about its place...

... mission has not been realized. A highly significant section of the book deals with the author s visit to Soviet Central Asia and his comparison of what he saw there with the neighboring lands of Iran and India. His admiration for the progress made and his belief in the inevitable infectiousness...

... against Iran and Hizbullah. The ambivalence over these labels and their corresponding dis- courses that can coexist or compete, usually depending on the regional or international dynamics grew over time to the point that when COVID-19 locked the country down during spring 2020, the political divide rather...

... Minister to Iran and Major General Con­ nolly, commanding United States Army forces in Iran. Ten years ago some of this may have been news, but Commander Whitehill (now director and librarian of the Boston Athenaeum) should have been allowed to replace this chitchat with fuller details of other mat­ ters...

... at an airport outside Teheran, the President was met by the Hon. Louis G. Dreyfus, United States Minister to Iran and Major General Con­ nolly, commanding United States Army forces in Iran. Ten years ago some of this may have been news, but Commander Whitehill (now director and librarian of the Boston...

...; acted for several fabulous years during the twenties as financial adviser to the government of Iran; and during the last war served first as a staff officer with the Combined Chiefs of Staff and later as Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2, of the U. S. Ninth Air Force (which, incidentally, he refers...

.... The year 1944 was also of significance with regard to American policy in Iran, and forms the background of the cold war crisis in that nation two years later. Several important documents show the extent to which Russia was already putting a great deal of economic pressure on the Iranian government...