User:Rab22

Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies (University of St Andrews)

Chatham House Associate Fellow 

Academic and Professional Experience
2004 - Date Reader in Modern History, University of St Andrews 2004 Lecturer in Middle East History, University of Exeter

1998 - Date Associate Fellow, Middle East Programme, The Royal Institute of International Affairs 1998 - 2003 Lecturer in the Political History of the Middle East, University of Durham

1997 - 1998 Lecturer in the History of the Middle East and Central Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

Teaching and Research Interests
Development of the State in the modern Middle East; Ideology, myth and nation building; Social and Intellectual history; Islam and the West.

Main Publications:
Iran, Islam & Democracy - The Politics of Managing Change ( RIIA, London, 2000) Second edition fully updated to be published 2006.

The History of Modern Iran Since 1921: the Pahlavis & After (Longman, Pearson Education, London, 2003) Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Roots of Mistrust, (C Hurst and co, 2006)

Articles in Journals & Edited Volumes
'Continuous Regime Change from Within', in The Washington Quarterly, 26:4, Autumn 2003, pp 53-57

'Iran at the Crossroads: democratisation and the dialectics of the revolution', in Soundings, 23, Spring 2003, pp 25-36

'Cultural Transmutations: the Dialectics of Globalisation in Contemporary Iran', in T Dodge & R Higgot (eds) Globalisation and the Middle East: Economy, Society & Politics (RIIA, London, 2002), pp 132-150

'The Myth of the White Revolution: Mohammad Reza Shah, ‘modernisation’ and the consolidation of power' in Middle Eastern Studies, 37, 3, July 2001pp 1-24

'Iranian Foreign Policy under Khatami: Reform & Reintegration', in Iran & Eurasia ed A Ehteshami & A Mohammadi, (Ithaca Press, Reading, 2000), pp 35-58

‘Persia in the Western Imagination’ in Vanessa Martin (ed) Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800 Royal Asiatic Society Books, Routledge, London, pp8-20

‘Iranian Nationalism’ in Youssef Choueri (ed) Companion to the History of the Middle East Blackwell, London, 2005, pp 320-333