Prof Ali Ansari
Professor Ali Ansari
B.A., Ph.D. (London)
Contact Details
E-mail - aa51@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 463027
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914
Teaching and Research Interests
Development of the State in the modern Middle East; Ideology, myth and nation building; Social and Intellectual history; Islam and the West.
Main Publications
Single Authored Books
- The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran, (Cambridge University Press, 2012) [Details]
- Crisis of Authority: Iran's 2009 Presidential Election, (Chatham House, 2010)
- Iran Under Ahmadinejad (Adelphi Papers), (Routledge, 2008) [Details]
- Iran, Islam & Democracy - The Politics of Managing Change ( RIIA, London, 2000) Second edition, 2006.
[Details] - The History of Modern Iran Since 1921: the Pahlavis & After (Longman, Pearson Education, London, 2003)
[Details] - Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Roots of Mistrust, (C Hurst and co, 2006)
[Details]
Articles in Journals & Edited Volumes
- ' Iran under Ahmadinejad: populism and its malcontents' in International Affairs, 84: 4, 2008, pp 683-700
- Iran and the US since 9/11: Persia and the Persian Question revisited’,in Iranian Studies, Vol 39, No 2 June 2006 pp 155-170
- 'Continuous Regime Change from Within', in The Washington Quarterly, 26:4, Autumn 2003, pp 53-57
- 'Iran at the Crossroads: democratisation and the dialectics of the revolution', in Soundings, 23, Spring 2003, pp 25-36
- 'Cultural Transmutations: the Dialectics of Globalisation in Contemporary Iran', in T Dodge & R Higgot (eds) Globalisation and the Middle East: Economy, Society & Politics (RIIA, London, 2002), pp 132-150
- 'The Myth of the White Revolution: Mohammad Reza Shah, ‘modernisation’ and the consolidation of power' in Middle Eastern Studies, 37, 3, July 2001pp 1-24
- 'Iranian Foreign Policy under Khatami: Reform & Reintegration', in Iran & Eurasia ed A Ehteshami & A Mohammadi, (Ithaca Press, Reading, 2000), pp 35-58
- ‘Persia in the Western Imagination’ in Vanessa Martin (ed) Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800 Royal Asiatic Society Books, Routledge, London, pp8-20
- ‘Iranian Nationalism’ in Youssef Choueri (ed) Companion to the History of the Middle East Blackwell, London, 2005, pp 320-333
Administrative Duties
Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies
Director of Communications
Member of the School Research Committee
External Administrative Duties
Editor, Cambridge History of Iran Vol 8: The Islamic Republic
Council Member and Modern Iran Project Manager, British Institute for Persian Studies Committee
Member, British Academy, Middle East External Relations Panel
External Examiner, PG degree in Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, Edinburgh University
External Examiner, Middle East History, Manchester University
External Examiner Postgraduate Degree in History, SOAS
Associate Fellow of the Middle East Program with reference to Iran, Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House
Teaching Duties
At undergradate level, participates in the teaching of First and Second Level Modern History courses and offers the following Honours courses:
- The Eastern Question: Europe & the Middle East 1774-1921
- Reform & Revolution: the Middle East since 1921
- Persia in the 18th Century – 1722-1834 (The Age of the Warlords)
- Modern Iran since 1834: reform and revolution
- Ideology & Myth in the Modern Middle East
- Britain & Iran in the Modern Era
- Jihad, Community and Identity: Islamic political thought past and present
Research Students
- Kayhan Jafar-Shaghaghi, Waqf in the political economy of modern Iran
- Michael Pye, Iran-Russia relations
- Christopher LaRossa, Roots of Islamic thought
- David Stokes, Contact between Habsburg and Persian empires in the early modern era
