The Iranian Revolution in International Affairs: Program and Practice

Year 1977, Issue: 17, 48 - 70, 01.05.1977

Fred Halliday

https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000083

Abstract

The Iranian Revolution in International Affairs: Program and Practice

Abstract

The problem of assessing the international impact of the
Iranian revolution, whether in the fields of oil or geopolitical
strategy, can be divided into two parts: first, the problem of
identifying what the policies of the new govermnent are and the
degree to which it is capable of putting them into practice;
secondly, the problem of identifying \vhat the unintended or at
least unofifcial consequences of the revolution have been, the
shock waves and enthusiasms that such an event has generated
elsewhere, and the counter-measures that its opponents are taking.
In neither case it is yet possible to draw up more than a very
preliminary balance-sheet. 

Keywords

Iranian Revolution, International Affairs, Program and Practice