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Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course presents an interdisciplinary overview of politics and security in contemporary Iran. It discusses the geopolitical, geostrategic and geographical importance of Iran for the region. Key domestic security challenges to the state are outlined and studied. Taking a knowledge-based and experiential approach, the course explores six core interconnected divisions most relevant to Iran and the region. These divisions are social (class division), societal (identity-based division), national (people-state division), political (division within the political system), regional (regional rivalry) and international divisions (great power politics and the region). The course provides an intellectual and analytical framework for engagement with the issues facing the region and Iran's linkages to them.
Tutorial Participation
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Midterm Exam
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
End of Semester Exam
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 24 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 2 hours of seminars per week; and b) 106 hours of independent student research, reading and writing. Other Information Middle Eastern Politics and Security Major - ANU Middle Eastern Politics and Security Minor - ANU Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies Minor - ANU Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies Major - ANU Persian Major - ANU Persian Minor - ANU
Not applicable Preliminary Reading Arshin Adib-Moghaddam: Iran in World Politics. The Question of the Islamic Republic (London: Hurst 2007) Abbas Amanat: Iran, A Modern History (Part IV). (New Haven & London: Yale University Press 2017) Mahan Abedin: Iran Resurgent, the Rise and Rise of the Shia State (London: Hurst 2019) Daniel Brumberg and Farideh Farhi, (eds.) Power and Change in Iran, Politics of Contention and Conciliation (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 2016) Alam Saleh: Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran (New York: Palgrave 2013)