Contemporary Iran - Gheissari, Ali (Professor of History and Adjunct, Senior Associate Member and Visiting Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford Professor of Political Science, Professor of History and Adjunct, Senior Associate Member and Visiting Fellow of St. Antony's Col

In this volume, an imposing roster of both internationally renowned Iranian scholars and rising young Iranian academics offer essays - many based on recent fieldwork - on the nature and evolution of Iran's economy, significant aspects of Iran's changing society, and the dynamics of its domestic and international politics since the 1979 revolution, focusing particularly on the post-Khomeini period.