When:
Monday, May 4, 2015
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, 107, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free
Contact:
Katie Rashid
(847) 467-5314
Group: Middle East and North African Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Said Arjomand, SUNY Stony Brook
Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology
Harris Hall, 107
1881 Sheridan Road
7:30 pm
Title: “The End of the Islamic Revolution and Iran-US Relations”
Abstract: When and how do revolutions end, and when did the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran end? It ended, or so it will be argued, with the election of Hasan Rouhani as Iran's President in 2013. The ending of a revolution frees foreign policy from revolutionary ideology, and from dependence on revolutionary power struggle, to engage with the rules of international realpolitik. This process will be examined in the context of the Iran-US relations in the last four decades.