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Dr. Mehran Kamrava is Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He is the author of a number of books, including Revolution in Iran: The Roots of Turmoil (1990),Democracy in the Balance: Culture and Society in the Middle East (1998), The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War (2005), and Iran’s Intellectual Revolution (2008). He has also edited The New Voices of Islam:Rethinking Politics and Modernity (2006).
Some three decades into the life of the Islamic Republic, the Iranian regime has yet to devise and implement a coherent national security policy or even a set of guidelines on which its regional and international security policies are based. In relation to the Persian Gulf region and the country’s immediate neighbors, this has resulted in the articulation of regional foreign and security policies that at times have seemed fluid and changeable.
