State and Society in Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook State and Society in Iran write by Homa Katouzian. This book was released on 2000-07-28. State and Society in Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seeking to explain the background to Iran's almost continuous adherence to one party rule, Homa Katouzian offers a theoretical framework for the study of the country's history. His approach provides insights into the present situation in the country.
Iranian History and Politics
Iranian History and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iranian History and Politics write by Homa Katouzian. This book was released on 2012-11-12. Iranian History and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contains the most detailed and comprehensive statement of Homa Katouzian's theory of arbitrary state and society in Iran, and its applications to Iranian history and politics, both modern and traditional. Every chapter is a study of its own specific topics while being firmly a part of the whole argument. The discussions include close comparisons with the history of Europe to demonstrate the diversities of the logic and sociology of Iranian history from their European counterparts. Being the first modern theory of Iranian history, it is highly regarded by Iranian historians and social scientists, especially as it has helped to resolve many of the anomalies resulting from the application of traditional theories.
Iran's Influence
Iran's Influence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iran's Influence write by Elaheh Rostami-Povey. This book was released on 2013-07-04. Iran's Influence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is a saying in Arabic, me and my brother against my cousin, and me and my cousin against the outsider. Iran's Influence is the first comprehensive analysis of the role that Iran plays both in Middle Eastern and global politics. Expert Iranian author Elaheh Rostami Povey provides a much-needed account of one of the Middle East's most controversial and misunderstood countries. Based on several years of original research carried out in Iran and across the Middle East, this insightful guide presents not only a fascinating introduction to the country, but also essential new ideas to help the reader understand the Middle East.
Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran
Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran write by H. Enayat. This book was released on 2013-07-17. Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using a 'Historical Institutionalist' approach, this book sheds light on a relatively understudied dimension of state-building in early twentieth century Iran, namely the quest for judicial reform and the rule of law from the 1906 Constitutional Revolution to the end of Reza Shah's rule in 1941.
Torture And Modernity
Torture And Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Torture And Modernity write by Darius M Rejali. This book was released on 1994. Torture And Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does the practice of torture presuppose about human beings and human society? How does one explain a society in which institutional torture persists despite massive changes in government and class structure? What, indeed, are the social foundations of modern torture? In Culture and Modernity, Darius M. Rejali investigates torture in Iran in order to understand and critically reconsider the politics and psychology of modern torture. In a world in which one out of every three governments uses torture, Rejali points to a common past, one shared by Iranians and non-Iranians alike, that supports this practice.“My aim,” Rejali writes, “is to use the study of torture, and of punishment more generally, to unearth deep and important assumptions about society, history, politics, and the ‘good life' that I believe underpin the life of a torturer.”Exploring the four principle explanations of modern torture—those offered by human rights activists, modernization theorists, state terrorist theorists such as Noam Chomsky, and post-structuralists, especially Michel Foucault—Rejali asks, “Do the accounts of political violence that we have developed over the past century have any real… explanatory or even moral significance… in today's world, or are they just consolations in the face of events we cannot fully understand?” His answers lead him to reconsider how Middle Eastern and European history are written and move him to question cherished assumptions about state formation, modernization, and postmodernism. Torture and Modernity is a deeply unsettling book—it contains not only graphic verbal passages, but an extensive photographic essay—yet it is intended to serve as a guide to rethinking current attitudes and reshaping political policies. How people are punished necessarily invokes conceptions of what human beings are and what they might become. A work such as this offers an understanding of what it means to “become modern,” and it is only when this notion of modernity is made manifest and analyzed that one can firmly grasp the prospects for a world without torture.
