The 'Arab Spring': The view from Tehran

Contemporary Politics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-52

  Parchami, Ali ^a  

^a Royal Military Academy Sandhurst   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arab Spring; geostrategic; Iran; Islamic; Shia Crescent; uprising

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858591289     PISSN: 13569775     EISSN: 14693631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2012.651272     Document Type: Article

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