Ansari, Ali. “Nationalism, Myth, and History in Modern Iran”, in Iran and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century, edited by H.E. Chehabi, Farhad Khosrokhavar and Clément Therme. Mazda Publishers, 2013, pp. 129-143.
*Arjomand, Sa?d Amir. After Khomeini: Iran under his Successors. Oxford University Press, 2009, 216p.
Chehabi, H.E. “The political regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Comparative Perspective”,Government and Opposition, 36 (Winter) 2001, pp. 48-70.
*Gheissari, Ali and Vali Nasr. Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty. Oxford University Press, 2006, 158p.
Golkar, Saeid. “Organization of the Oppressed or Organization for Oppressing: Analysing the Role of the Basij Militia of Iran”, Politics, Religion & Ideology, 13: 4, 2012, pp. 455-471.
*Kamrava, Mehran. Iran’s Intellectual Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 226p.
Keshavarzian, Arang. “Contestation without Democracy: Elite Fragmentation in Iran” inAuthoritarianism in the Middle East: Regimes and Resistance, edited by Marsha Pripstein Posusney and Michele Penner Angrist, Lynne Rienner, 2005, pp. 63-88.
Levitsky, Steven and Lucan Way: “The Durability of Revolutionary Regimes”, Journal of Democracy, 24:3, 2013, pp. 5-17.
*Negin Nabavi (ed). Iran: From Theocracy to the Green Movement, Palgrave Macmillan 2012, 162p.
Posch, Walter. “The End of a Beautiful Friendship? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Principalists”, in Iran and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century, edited by H.E. Chehabi, Farhad Khosrokhavar and Clément Therme. Mazda Publishers, 2013, pp. 50-78.
Safshekan, Roozbeh and Farzan Sabet. "The Ayatollah's Praetorians: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the 2009 Election Crisis", The Middle East Journal, 64:4, 2010, pp. 543–558.
Tohidi, Nayere. “Ethnicity and Religious Minority Politics in Iran”, in Contemporary Iran: Economy, Society, Politics: Economy, Society, Politics, edited by Ali Gheissari, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 299-323.
Curriculum for each seminar
01 Situating the Iranian political system
Chehabi, H.E. “The political regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Comparative Perspective”,Government and Opposition, 36 (Winter) 2001, pp. 48-70.
Keshavarzian, Arang. “Contestation without Democracy: Elite Fragmentation in Iran” inAuthoritarianism in the Middle East: Regimes and Resistance, edited by Marsha Pripstein Posusney and Michele Penner Angrist, Lynne Rienner, 2005, pp. 63-88.
Levitsky, Steven and Lucan Way: “The Durability of Revolutionary Regimes”
02 Legacies of Pahlavi rule and the constitutional revolution
Ansari, Ali. “Nationalism, Myth, and History in Modern Iran”,
Gheissari, Ali and Vali Nasr. Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty. Oxford University Press, 2006, Chapters 1 and 2.
03 The Islamic Revolution
Arjomand, Sa?d Amir. “Iran’s Islamic Revolution in Comparative Perspective”, World Politics, 38: 3, 1986: 383-414.
Gheissari, Ali and Vali Nasr. Democracy in Iran, Chapter 3.
04 Insiders and outsiders in the Islamic Republic
Arjomand, Sa?d Amir. After Khomeini, Introduction, Chapter 1 and 2
Tohidi, Nayere. “Ethnicity and Religious Minority Politics in Iran”,
05 Social and economic cleavages
Arjomand, Sa?d Amir. After Khomeini, Chapter 6
Gheissari, Ali and Vali Nasr. Democracy in Iran, Chapter 4
Negin Nabavi (ed). Iran: From Theocracy to the Green Movement, Chapters 4, 5, 6 & 8.
Tohidi, Nayere. “Ethnicity and Religious Minority Politics in Iran”
06 Intellectual trends
Arjomand, Sa?d Amir. After Khomeini, Chapter 4
Kamrava, Mehran. Iran’s Intellectual Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Chapters 1-7.
07 Factional politics
Arjomand, Sa?d Amir. After Khomeini, Chapters 3, 5 and 8
Posch, Walter. “The End of a Beautiful Friendship?”
08 The structure of power under Khamenei
Arjomand, Sa?d Amir. After Khomeini, Chapter 9
Golkar, Saeid. “Organization of the Oppressed or Organization for Oppressing: Analysing the Role of the Basij Militia of Iran”, Politics, Religion & Ideology, 13: 4, 2012, pp. 455-471.
Safshekan, Roozbeh and Farzan Sabet. "The Ayatollah's Praetorians…”
09 The Green Movement and the regime
Negin Nabavi (ed). Iran: From Theocracy to the Green Movement, Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 7.
Posch, Walter. “The End of a Beautiful Friendship?”
Safshekan, Roozbeh and Farzan Sabet. "The Ayatollah's Praetorians…”
10 Foreign policy and domestic tensions under Rouhani
Arjomand, Sa?d Amir. After Khomeini, Chapters 7 and 10.