JIRA, 18.1 APRIL 2002

TABLE OF CONTENT

Articles:

Mahmood Monshipouri: Iran’s New Balancing Act: Foreign Policy Blunder or Success?

Kazem Alamdari: Sept. 11 Tragedy: A Vertical Clash of Civilization

Misagh Parsa: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Clash of Civilization

Hamid Elyassi

Iran and Membership in the WTO: A Critical Discussion

Book Reviews:

Roksana Bahramitash

Zohreh Sullivan, Exiled Memories: Stories of Iranian Diaspora …      66   

Nader Entessar

Robert Olson, Turkey’s Relations with Iran, Syria, Israel, and Russia, 1991-2000: The Kurdish and Islamist Questions ………...            70

Nader Entessar

Dilip Hiro, Neighbors, Not Friends: Iraq and Iran after the Gulf Wars ……………………………………………………………….   74

Fatemeh Shafiei

Ali Mirsepassi, Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran ……………………   78

Mina N. Baliamoune

Parvin Alizadeh, ed., The Economy of Iran: Dilemmas of an Islamic State ………….................................................................................             83

Ervand Abrahamian

Homa Katouzian, State and Society in Iran: The Eclipse of the Oajars and the Emergence of the Pahlavis ………………………..              88

Mehrzad Boroujerdi

Fariba Adelkhah, Being Modern in Iran, translated from the French by Jonathan Derrick ……………………………………………….          90

Hamid Zangeneh