By Reza Molavi

Reza Molavi explores the potential for the privatisation of some of Iran’s national institutions, in particular whether there is the political will to privatise the Iranian oil and gas industry.

Edited by Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Mahjoob Zweiri

This timely collection of papers by leading academics and prominent government officials sheds new light on the foreign policy of Iran under President Khatami and into the period of President Ahmadinejad.

By Anoushirvan Ehteshami and Steven Wright

Through articles by eminent academics and government officials, this book looks at issues surrounding reform in the Middle East oil monarchies and examines the drivers, progress and challenges for future change in this vitally strategic area of the world.

The European Azerbaijan Society

History / Politics The Armenian Question in the Caucasus, Russian Archive Documents and Publications is issued in a three-volume collection as a special topic of study for the first time in world historiography. The topic is presented as a complex based on rare documents and publications which were long stored as secret and top secret in Russian Archives.

Edited by Tugrul Keskin

Middle East Studies: The Sociology of Islam, employing sociological scholarship, argues that it would be difficult to understand Islam without first understanding the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the social structure of Muslim societies which are embedded in the relationship between religion, the economy, politics and society. This book will attempt to make a connection between the economic system and its social and political consequences within Muslim societies. To do this, it will examine the role of Islam within Muslim societies in the Middle East in the context of ongoing and increasingly powerful neoliberal economic processes in a globalized world.