Independence without Freedom: Iran's Foreign Policy
Ruhi Ramazani is the expert’s expert on Iran. No one writes with greater authority or insight on Iran’s foreign policy under both the monarchy and the theocracy. Ramazani is also that rare scholar who knows Iran from both inside and out. This is a wonderfully rich, comprehensive, and invaluable work!(Robin Wright, author ofRock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World)[Ramazani] has written with sparkling clarity on a difficult subject and with both passion and objectivity on an issue which... is still laden with emotional baggage.(New York Review of Books)Ruhi Ramazani has been the teacher to several generations of Iran scholars and analysts, and the essays contained here take on all the biggest issues relating to Iran: ideology, religion, idealism, pragmatism, law. Ramazani was one of the first to look carefully at such phenomena as the role of Shiism in Persian Gulf politics and the growth of terrorism as an ideology. This is a Scholar's Progress, an odyssey of a life of scholarship and policy engagement.(Gary Sick, Columbia University)Independence without Freedomcomprises Rouhollah K. Ramazani’s most insightful book chapters and journal articles on Iranian foreign policy.... Ramazani is, without a doubt, the most eloquent and knowledgeable researcher of Iranian foreign policy, and he provides scholars and policymakers alike with thoroughly informative and highly analytical work, which is both personal and authoritative.Independence without Freedomshould be assigned reading in any course on Iranian foreign policy, and is a must-read for policy makers and journalists struggling to make sense of Iranian foreign policy behavior.(H-Net Reviews)