1. Fred Halliday was Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the London School of Economics. A Middle East specialist, he authored many articles and books, including Arabia Without Sultans, Islam and the Myth of Confrontation, The Middle East in International Relations and Revolution and World Politics. 2. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is Senior Lecturer in the Modern History of the Middle East at the University of York and author of Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran.
<p>It is quite possible that before too long the Iranian people will chase the</p><p>Pahlavi dictator and his associates from power…</p><p>So wrote Fred Halliday mere months ahead of the Islamic Revolution of</p><p>1979, in the conclusion to this classic study. More than an incredibly timely</p><p>work, it is a deeply researched examination of the Pahlavi era – politically,</p><p>economically and socially. Halliday takes in the nation’s uneven capitalist</p><p>development, opposition movements, state repression, military apparatus</p><p>and foreign relations. Even decades later, it remains among the most</p><p>sophisticated analyses of this period in Iranian history.</p><p>This new edition features an extensive introduction from historian Eskandar</p><p>Sadeghi-Boroujerdi along with six of Halliday’s essays on Iran after the</p><p>revolution, which demonstrate how his thinking on Iran evolved over time.</p>
