Arab-Iranian Relations - Hunter, Shireen T.

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Résumé :
Preface / Introduction / Part I / 1. Historical, Ethnic, Sectarian and Cultural Background to Arab-Iranian Relations / 2. Modernization, the Rise of Nation States and Ethno-Centric Nationalism in Iran and the Arab World: Impact on Arab-Iranian Relations / 3. Intra-Arab Politics: Impact on Arab-Iranian Relations / 4. The Israel Question in Arab-Iranian Relations / 5. The Evolving Character of International Politics and System: Impact on Arab-Iranian Relations / Part II / 6. Iran's Relations with Egypt: From Hostility to Friendship to Hostility / 7. Iran's Relations with Iraq: From Hostility to Friendship to What? / 8. Iran's Relation with Syria and Lebanon / 9. Iran's Relations with Saudi Arabia: Rivals for Supremacy in the Persian Gulf and Beyond / 10. Iran's Relations with the Persian Gulf Arab States: Uniformity and Difference / Conclusion / Selected Bibliography...

Biographie:
Shireen Hunter is a Research Professor at the School of Foreign Service and affiliated with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. From 2007 to 2014 she was a Visiting Professor at the Center and from 2005 to 2007 a visiting scholar working on a project on Reformist Islam funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Before joining the Center she was the director of the Islam Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies with which she had been affiliated since 1983. She has also had appointments at the Harvard Center for International Affairs (Research Fellow, January to August 1979) and Brookings Institution (Visiting Fellow, August 1979-January 1980.) From 1965 to 1979 she was with the Iranian foreign service serving in London, Geneva and Tehran. She attained the rank of Counselor. Hunter is the author of 10 books and 5 monographs and the editor of 6 books and 4 monographs. Her latest publications include: God On Our Side: Religion and International Affairs , Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming December 2016...

Sommaire:
By highlighting the complex set of factors and their interactions that have shaped Arab-Iranian relations, the book hopes to be a corrective to the simplistic and reductionist interpretations of these relations....