regularity turned to the Middle East as an avenue of conceptual inquiry. Moreover, Iran has increasingly attracted the attention … authoritarian state could manage elite divisions and hyper-factionalism when all current indicators of authoritarian robustness …

nuclear weapons by Iran, while seventy-four percent of those surveyed support the development of exclusively peaceful nuclear … the elite discourse on the legitimacy of nuclear weapons within a nation will play a very large role in shaping public … attitudes on the development of such weapons. In post-revolution Iran, ruling elites have invoked Islam to shape the discourse …

national and provincial governments in tutelary regimes. The research uses the case of Iran; the database covers 330 …