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Professor Ali Ansari
Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme
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Expertise
- Politics and history of Iran
- International relations of Iran, especially with the West
- Political ideologies of the Middle East
Projects
- Iran and the Iranian Question
- The Politics of nationalism in Modern Iran (CUP)
Recent Publications
Single Authored Books
- Confronting Iran: The Failure of US Foreign Policy and the Roots of Mistrust, Hurst/Basic, London, pp 280, 2006 (Pb, 2nd edition 2007)
- Iran, Islam & Democracy - The Politics of Managing Change, RIIA, London, 2000 pp 240 (2nd edition fully updated published, 2006)
- The History of Modern Iran 1921: The Pahlavis & After, Longman, Pearson Education, London, 2003, pp 272 (2nd edition 2007)
Articles in Journals, Edited Volumes and Papers
- 'Iran Elections: Monumental Miscalculation', The World Today, July 2009
- 'Iranian Presidential Elections: Ghost at the Election Banquet', The World Today, May 2009
- 'Iran Under Ahmadinejad: Populism and its Malcontents', International Affairs, July 2008
- 'Iran Under Ahmadinejad', Adelphi paper, IISS, 2007
- 'Iran and the US in the Shadow of 9/11: Persia and the Persian Question Revisited', Iranian Studies, Vol 39, No 2, June 2006, pp 155-170
- 'Peacekeeping in the Middle East' in Peacekeeping ed Rachel Utley, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, pp 135-146
- 'Persia in the Western Imagination' in Vanessa Martin (ed) Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800, Royal Asiatic Society Books, Routledge, London, 2005, pp8-20
- 'Iranian Nationalism' in Youssef Choueri (ed) Companion to the History of the Middle East, Blackwell, London, 2005, pp 320-333
- 'Continuous Regime Change from Within', The Washington Quarterly, 26:4, Autumn 2003, pp 53-57
- 'Iran at the Crossroads: Democratisation and the Dialectics of the Revolution', 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 2001, pp 1-24
- 'Iranian Foreign Policy Under Khatami: Reform & Reintegration', in Iran & Eurasia ed A Ehteshami & A Mohammadi, Ithaca Press, Reading, 2000, pp 35-58
- 'The Iranian Revolution 20 Years On', in Politique Etrangère, IFRI, Paris, May 2000 pp 81-93
Experience
| 2007 - Present | Professor of Iranian History, University of St Andrews |
| 2006 - Present | Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies |
| 2004 - 2007 | Reader in Modern History, University of St Andrews |
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