JIRA Vol. 20.2 November 2004

Table of Content

Articles:

Cyrus Bina, “The American Tragedy: The Quagmire of War, Rhetoric of Oil,

and the Conundrum of Hegemony” ……………………………………………………...    7

Hashem Dezhbakhsh, “Privatization in Iran: Past, Present, and Prospects” …………… 23

Misagh Parsa, “Conflict and Collective Active in the Iranian Revolution:

A Quantitative Analysis” ………………………………………………………………… 39

Nader Entessar, “The Tajik Conundrum” ……………………………………………… 58

Book Reviews:

Alan Eyre

Mehdi Moslem, Factional Politics in Post-Khomeini Iran ……………………………… 73

Hamid Rezaeiyazdi

Massoud Noghrekar, Listen, It’s the Voice of a Black Angel ……………………………. 75

Afshin Marashi

Mark J. Gasiorwski and Malcolm Byrne (eds.),

Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran ……………………………………… 79

Ahmad Khalili

Mohammadi, Ali (Ed.), Iran Encountering Globalization:

Problems and Prospects  ..................................................................................................... 83