Mullahs, guards, and bonyads an exploration of Iranian leadership dynamics
The Islamic Republic of Iran poses serious challenges to U.S. interests in the Middle East, and its nuclear program continues to worry, and bring condemnation and sanction from, the international community. Yet the U.S. ability to "read" the regime in Tehran and formulate appropriate polic...
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Santa Monica, CA
RAND, National Defense Research Institute
©2010©2010, 2010
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : leadership dynamics in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Assertiveness and caution in Iranian strategic culture
- Formal structures of the Islamic Republic
- Factionalism and the primacy of informal networks
- The nexus of domestic politics and policymaking in Iran
- Conclusion : power and politics in the Islamic Republic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-144)