The Deadlock in Iran: Pressures from Below

Issue Date January 2003
Volume 14
Issue 1
Page Numbers 126-131
file Print
arrow-down-thin Download from Project MUSE
external View Citation

Read the full essay here.

Despite today’s gridlock, there are grounds for hope in the widespread embrace of democratic ideals by young people.

About the Author

Ramin Jahanbegloo is head of the Department of Research on Contemporary Thought at the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran. His books include Conversations with Isaiah Berlin (1991), Gandhi: Aux sources de la nonviolence (1998), and Iran and Modernity (2000). During 2001–2002 he was a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington, D.C.

View all work by Ramin Jahanbegloo

Further Reading

Volume 11, Issue 4

Is Iran Democratizing? Observations on Election Day

In hotly contested parliamentary elections, candidates supportive of President Khatami’s reforms won an overwhelming victory.

Volume 27, Issue 1

The Authoritarian Threat: The Hijacking of “Soft Power”

Although the leading authoritarian regimes are today integrated in many ways into the global system, they have not become more like the democracies; instead, they have been devising policies and…

Volume 19, Issue 3

Islamist Parties and Democracy: Why They Can’t be Democratic

Read the full essay here. This article makes a case of the basic distinction between Islam and Islamism and presents three central arguments: 1. through religious reforms and a rethinking…