Center for International and Regional Studies

Mehran Kamrava, Director, Center for International and Regional Studies.

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Latest Books:
Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic (Greewood Press, 2008).
Iran's Intellectual Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Understanding Comparative Politics: A Framework for Analysis (Routledge, 2008).

Recent Articles:
Royal Factionalism and Political Liberalization in Qatar, Middle East Journal, Vol. 63, No. 3, Summer 2009.
The United States and Iran: A Dangerous but Contained Rivalry, The Middle East Institute Policy Brief, No. 9, March 2008.
Iranian National-Security Debates: Factionalism and Lost Opportunities, Middle East Policy, Vol. XIV, No. 2, Summer 2007.
The Middle East's Democracy Defecit in Comparative Perspective, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, No. 6, 2007.

Katja Niethammer, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2008-2009), Center for International and Regional Studies.

Books:
Political Reform in Bahrain: Institutional Transformation, Identity Conflict and Democracy (Forthcoming, Routledge).

Recent Articles:
Die Staaten Des Golfkooperationsrats, Deutsche Nah-, Mittelost - Und Nordafrikapolitik, No. 15, May 2009.

James Onley, Senior Fellow (2008-2009), Center for International and Regional Studies.

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Books:
The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf (Oxford University Press, 2007).