Iran's Foreign Policy Since 1990: Pragmatism Supersedes Islamic Ideology

This book deals with the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1990. Iran is a pivotal country in the world as much for its oil wealth as for its leadership of the Islamic block. The primary focus of the book is Iran's relations with the Persian Gulf states and the Islamic world in general, Western Europe, the United States, Russia, Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia. These are the areas where Iran's foreign policy has been most active and where it has faced the greatest difficulties in the past two decades. The Islamic radicalism of the 1980s has given way to a moderate and rational foreign policy in the 1990s. There are many examples of this gradual shift delineated in this superb book.