Mahmood Monshipouri
Biographic Data
| ID | 306550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahmood Monshipouri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahmood |
| FAMILY NAME | Monshipouri |
| SIGNATURE | MONSHIPOURI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Quinnipiac University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7993-4361 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Gaza War and the Future Of the Abraham Accords
The Abraham Accords of 2020 represented new political dynamics in Middle Eastern diplomacy, as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan normalized relations with Israel without demanding a path toward Palestinian statehood. In the short term, the accords increased trade and cooperation on technology, but the larger security project of containing Iran remained a mission unaccomplished. Still, President Joe Biden, until his last days i…
The World Powers and Iran: Before, During, and After the Nuclear Deal By BanafshehKeynoush. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 196 pages. $54.99, hardcover
Lessons for Israel's Gaza War In America's Strategic Blunders
Lessons learned from counterterrorism operations indicate that purely military solutions are doomed to fail, and Israel is primed to repeat many of these mistakes. The comparison between America's post‐9/11 wars and the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict is not perfect: Al‐Qaeda was in Afghanistan but was not native to the country, and the transnational ISIS emerged out of the chaos in Iraq and Syria. Hamas, by contrast, represents a resistance movemen…
Woman, Life, Freedom, One Year Later: Will the Iran Protests Succeed
This essay argues that the recent protests in Iran, ostensibly driven by the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, are a symbol of a far greater dissatisfaction with arbitrary rule, corruption, and incompetence. While compulsory veiling was the immediate cause, the main drivers are the ailing economy and the decline in public services. Given the depth and breadth of street protests and the ongoing civil disobedience, the Islamic Republic simply cannot r…
Raisi and Iran's Foreign Policy Toward the South Caucasus
In the aftermath of the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020, Iran's president, Ebrahim Raisi, has faced new geopolitical constraints in the South Caucasus. The overlapping strategic and material interests of Russia and Turkey have seriously constrained the maneuverability of Iran. The collaboration between Moscow and Ankara following the second Karabakh war is likely to significantly diminish Iran's interests in the region. As a NATO member, Turkey can …
Sanctions, Deterrence, Regime Change: A New Look at US‐Iran Relations
Over the past four decades, the United States has managed its foreign policy toward Iran through a combination of sanctions, diplomatic incentives, and threats of military intervention. This approach has come down to two choices: war or sanctions. Clearly, sanctions have deprived Iran of access to foreign investment in its oil and energy sectors, caused many oil companies to withdraw from Iran, and dramatically reduced Iran's oil revenue. However…
Iran’s Security Interests and Policies in the South Caucasus
The aim of this essay is to demonstrate that cooperation and competition between Russia, Iran, and Turkey requires ongoing regional political recalibrations regarding oil and gas pipelines and transportation routes. We argue that while much has changed in regional politics, Russian domination of the region remains intact, with Tehran and Ankara finding themselves in constant competition with each other while also balancing their interests versus …
The Resilience of Populism in Iranian Politics: A Closer Look at the Nexus between Internal and External Factors
This article seeks to demonstrate that the resiliency of populism in Iran cannot be fully explained by internal variables alone. In contrast to many existing approaches, we argue that a combination of internal and external factors have contributed to the longevity and the resilience of Islamic populism in the country. The United States' hostile policies toward Iran—especially under Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump—have contributed to th…
The Levant Express: The Arab Uprisings and the Future of the Middle East, written by Micheline R. Ishay
Micheline R. Ishay. The Levant Express: The Arab Uprisings and the Future of the Middle East. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. 338 p. $30.00 hardback.Contrary to those who have predicted the end times of human rights in the face of the collapse of the global liberal order and the rise of right-wing populism and virulent nationalism, Ishay strikes an optimistic tone evoked by the metaphor of a moving “peace train,” the so-called “Levant…
Why Human Rights Still Matter in Contemporary Global Affairs
Managing the Refugee Crisis in the Era of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This essay seeks to demonstrate that there are both ethical and practical considerations for enabling refugees to manage the coronavirus disease (COVID-19 pandemic). Given that a majority of refugees live in highly congested environments, particularly urban areas, an outbreak would swiftly spread through their local communities. Our argument is twofold: (i) That a new approach is needed to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic –one that recognizes moun…
China's Iran Strategy: What Is at Stake
This paper seeks to unpack China's grand energy policy in the Middle East. It examines the proposed Iran‐China deal, to which China's great game in Iran presents new challenges. Beijing sees Iran as a key potential asset in Western Asia. Regional experts argue that, given Iran's extensive natural resources and human capital, as well as a relatively untapped market, the country is seen by the Chinese ruling class as a potentially valuable ally. Un…
Middle East Politics: Changing Dynamics
Aimed at undergraduate level courses, this brand-new textbook provides an overview of Middle Eastern politics, offering in-depth examination of the forces of stability, change, uncertainty, and progress in the region. Building on both historical and contemporary analysis, the chapters are timely, engaging and provocative, covering topics such as: - Turmoil and transition in Middle Eastern politics - The Arab-Israeli conflict - The Persian Gulf an…
The Middle East Post‐Petroleum: Averting the Storm
Re-evaluating Iran-Egypt Relations: A Look at the Evolving Geopolitical Context
Egypt under President Abdel Fatteh el-Sisi appears committed to avoid falling into the contentious Sunni-Shia divide by reconfiguring its security considerations based on the recognition of new circumstances that prioritize stability above sectarian and ethnic identity concerns.While Egypt is unlikely to fundamentally alter its foreign policy anytime soon, largely due to its economic dependency on rich Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, its reca…
Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi engages with Michel Foucault’s essays on the Iranian Revolution by examining his works with an eye toward opening a window through which one can observe the revolutionary events in Iran from an exogenous discursive framing that renders their meaning understandable. Foucault described the Iranian Revolution as a singular experience that was unlikely to follow the model of other modern revolutions. This revolution, according…
Human Rights in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Constraints
This article seeks to demonstrate the ways in which the growing digital diffusion of ideas and visions can help shape the political and social landscape at the local, national, regional, and global levels. While the context is varied, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the Arab Spring to other social movements across the world, it is fair to argue that the new technologies have precipitated social change technologically and from a normative …
Protecting human rights in the era of uncertainty: How not to lose the war against Isis
As the brutal and violent attacks on civilian populations multiply throughout the world perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL, or the Islamic State, also known as Daesh), the need for an effective response to terrorism has grown in intensity. The ISIS attacks in Paris have in particular introduced a wave of nationalist, securitized alarm, reinforcing a general concern about the influx of immigrants and asylum seekers wh…
Democratic Uprisings in the New Middle East: Youth, Technology, Human Rights, and US Foreign Policy
Iran's Foreign Policy: A Shifting Strategic Landscape
HIV/Aids, Religion, and Human Rights: A Comparative Analysis of Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Iran
China's Rising Power: Economic Growth vs. Freedom Deficit
Our analysis sets out to explain the relationship between economic growth and political freedoms within the context of Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy. The images of China as a rising military power with a growing economy have drawn attention away from the degree to which democratic values and norms have been marginalized in China. The existing literature has typically focused on an increasingly competitive economic globalization tha…
T he I slamic R epublic and the “G reen M ovement ”: C oming F ull C ircle
A Review of Dominic McGoldrick's Human Rights and Religion: The Islamic Headscarf Debate in Europe
This is a book review of Dominic McGoldrick's Human Rights and Religion: The Islamic Headscarf Debate in Europe, Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2006, pp. 309, Plus Index
Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimaging the Umma ‐ by Peter Mandaville
Human rights, culture and context: Anthropological perspectives
Journal Article Human rights, culture and context: anthropological perspectives Get access Human rights, culture and context: anthropological perspectives. Edited by Richard A. Wilson. London: Pluto. 1997. 216pp. Index. £40.00; ISBN 0 7453 1143 1. Pb.: £13.99; ISBN 0 7433 1142 3. Mahmood Monshipouri Mahmood Monshipouri 1Alma College, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73…
Iran's Foreign Policy: A Shifting Strategic Landscape
The West's Modern Encounter with Islam: From Discourse to Reality
The West's Modern Encounter with Islam: From Discourse to Reality Mahmood Monshipouri Mahmood Monshipouri chairman and associate professor of political science Alma College, Alma, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 40, Issue 1, Winter 1998, Pages 25–56, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/40.1.25 Published: 01 January 1998
Raisi and Iran's Foreign Policy Toward the South Caucasus
In the aftermath of the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020, Iran's president, Ebrahim Raisi, has faced new geopolitical constraints in the South Caucasus. The overlapping strategic and material interests of Russia and Turkey have seriously constrained the maneuverability of Iran. The collaboration between Moscow and Ankara following the second Karabakh war is likely to significantly diminish Iran's interests in the region. As a NATO member, Turkey can …
Human Rights in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Constraints
This article seeks to demonstrate the ways in which the growing digital diffusion of ideas and visions can help shape the political and social landscape at the local, national, regional, and global levels. While the context is varied, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the Arab Spring to other social movements across the world, it is fair to argue that the new technologies have precipitated social change technologically and from a normative …
Protecting human rights in the era of uncertainty: How not to lose the war against Isis
As the brutal and violent attacks on civilian populations multiply throughout the world perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL, or the Islamic State, also known as Daesh), the need for an effective response to terrorism has grown in intensity. The ISIS attacks in Paris have in particular introduced a wave of nationalist, securitized alarm, reinforcing a general concern about the influx of immigrants and asylum seekers wh…
China's Rising Power: Economic Growth vs. Freedom Deficit
Our analysis sets out to explain the relationship between economic growth and political freedoms within the context of Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy. The images of China as a rising military power with a growing economy have drawn attention away from the degree to which democratic values and norms have been marginalized in China. The existing literature has typically focused on an increasingly competitive economic globalization tha…
Shaping Cultural Politics in the Muslim World: Women's Empowerment as an Alternative to Militarism, Terror, and War
NGOs and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
(2003). NGOs and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan. International Peacekeeping: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 138-155
State Prerogatives, Civil Society, and Liberalization: The Paradoxes of the Late Twentieth Century in the Third World
The end of the Cold War has left the international system in a state of paradox, most prominently in the growing conflict between the legal-political global order and the growth of civil society. Monshipouri identifies and discusses three paradoxes that exemplify this central conflict: state-building versus democratization; economic liberalization versus political liberalization; and human rights versus state sovereignty. In discussing each of th…
Islamic Thinking and the Internationalization of Human Rights
The Gaza War and the Future Of the Abraham Accords
The Abraham Accords of 2020 represented new political dynamics in Middle Eastern diplomacy, as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan normalized relations with Israel without demanding a path toward Palestinian statehood. In the short term, the accords increased trade and cooperation on technology, but the larger security project of containing Iran remained a mission unaccomplished. Still, President Joe Biden, until his last days i…
Lessons for Israel's Gaza War In America's Strategic Blunders
Lessons learned from counterterrorism operations indicate that purely military solutions are doomed to fail, and Israel is primed to repeat many of these mistakes. The comparison between America's post‐9/11 wars and the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict is not perfect: Al‐Qaeda was in Afghanistan but was not native to the country, and the transnational ISIS emerged out of the chaos in Iraq and Syria. Hamas, by contrast, represents a resistance movemen…
Iran’s Security Interests and Policies in the South Caucasus
The aim of this essay is to demonstrate that cooperation and competition between Russia, Iran, and Turkey requires ongoing regional political recalibrations regarding oil and gas pipelines and transportation routes. We argue that while much has changed in regional politics, Russian domination of the region remains intact, with Tehran and Ankara finding themselves in constant competition with each other while also balancing their interests versus …
HIV/Aids, Religion, and Human Rights: A Comparative Analysis of Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Iran
T he I slamic R epublic and the “G reen M ovement ”: C oming F ull C ircle
The Paradoxes of U.S. Policy in the Middle East
The Muslim World Half a Century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Progress and Obstacles
Fifty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the Muslim world shows signs of divergence from and convergence toward that declaration. There obviously exist some fundamental disagreements between the Muslim world and the West regarding the separation of religion from politics. Other differences centre particularly on the nature of universality of human rights, women's rights, and the rights of minorities. Islamists are faced…
The Christians in Socialism--and after: The Church in East Germany
Mahmood Monshipouri, John W. Arnold; The Christians in Socialism—and after: The Church in East Germany, Journal of Church and State, Volume 38, Issue 4, 1
Constructing the Enemy in the Post-Cold War Era: The Flaws of the "Islamic Conspiracy" Theory
Mahmood Monshipouri, Gina Petonito; Constructing the Enemy in the Post-Cold War Era: The Flaws of the “Islamic Conspiracy” Theory, Journal of Church and St
Shaping the New World Order: America's Post-Gulf War Agenda in the Middle East
In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, the U.S. postwar agenda entails some predictable elements of the Gulf area's changed political landscape. While pressure on the United States to address the problems which distributed the status-quo ante will be undeniably high, a drastic departure from conventional policy postures does not seem in the offing. In addition, the revival of Pax Americana is likely to bring along new difficulties at a time wh…
Backlash to the Destruction at Ayodhya: A View from Pakistan
Hindus believe that the Lord Ram was born on the sacred site in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya where the Babri Mosque stood prior to its demolition in December 1992. They also believe that the founder of the Mughul dynasty in India, Zahiruddin Mohammed Babur (1483-1530), ordered the construction of the mosque in 1528 after demolishing a temple to Ram that had stood on the same spot. The old belief grew into a festering dispute in modern time…
Islam, Democracy and Human Rights: The Continuing Debate in the West
Minorities at Risk: A Global View of Ethnopolitical Conflicts
Ethics, American Foreign Policy, and the Third World
Islamic Thinking and the Internationalization of Human Rights
Ideology, Economics, and Social Transformation: The Iranian Revolution in Perspective
Development and Democracy in Pakistan: Tenuous or Plausible Nexus
Research Article| November 01 1995 Development and Democracy in Pakistan: Tenuous or Plausible Nexus? Mahmood Monshipouri, Mahmood Monshipouri Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Amjad Samuel Amjad Samuel Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1995) 35 (11): 973–989. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645722 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio …
Constructing the Enemy in the Post-Cold War Era: The Flaws of the "Islamic Conspiracy" Theory
Mahmood Monshipouri, Gina Petonito; Constructing the Enemy in the Post-Cold War Era: The Flaws of the “Islamic Conspiracy” Theory, Journal of Church and St
The Plo Rivalry With Hamas: The Challenge Of Peace, Democratization And Islamic Radicalism
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The Christians in Socialism--and after: The Church in East Germany
Mahmood Monshipouri, John W. Arnold; The Christians in Socialism—and after: The Church in East Germany, Journal of Church and State, Volume 38, Issue 4, 1
State Prerogatives, Civil Society, and Liberalization: The Paradoxes of the Late Twentieth Century in the Third World
The end of the Cold War has left the international system in a state of paradox, most prominently in the growing conflict between the legal-political global order and the growth of civil society. Monshipouri identifies and discusses three paradoxes that exemplify this central conflict: state-building versus democratization; economic liberalization versus political liberalization; and human rights versus state sovereignty. In discussing each of th…
Human rights, culture and context: Anthropological perspectives
Journal Article Human rights, culture and context: anthropological perspectives Get access Human rights, culture and context: anthropological perspectives. Edited by Richard A. Wilson. London: Pluto. 1997. 216pp. Index. £40.00; ISBN 0 7453 1143 1. Pb.: £13.99; ISBN 0 7433 1142 3. Mahmood Monshipouri Mahmood Monshipouri 1Alma College, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73…
Islamism, Secularism, and Human Rights in the Middle East
I ran's S earch for the N ew P ragmatism
The Muslim World Half a Century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Progress and Obstacles
Fifty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the Muslim world shows signs of divergence from and convergence toward that declaration. There obviously exist some fundamental disagreements between the Muslim world and the West regarding the separation of religion from politics. Other differences centre particularly on the nature of universality of human rights, women's rights, and the rights of minorities. Islamists are faced…
The West's Modern Encounter with Islam: From Discourse to Reality
The West's Modern Encounter with Islam: From Discourse to Reality Mahmood Monshipouri Mahmood Monshipouri chairman and associate professor of political science Alma College, Alma, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 40, Issue 1, Winter 1998, Pages 25–56, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/40.1.25 Published: 01 January 1998
Reform and the Human Rights Quandary: Islamists vs. Secularists
Journal Article Reform and the Human Rights Quandary: Islamists vs. Secularists Get access Mahmood Monshipouri Mahmood Monshipouri professor and chair of political science Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 41, Issue 3, Summer 1999, Pages 445–474, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/41.3.445 Published: 01 July 1999
Democratization, Liberalization and Human Rights in the Third World
Globalization, Sacred Beliefs, and Defiance: Is Human Rights Discourse Relevant in the Muslim World
Mahmood Monshipouri, Reza Motameni; Globalization, Sacred Beliefs, and Defiance: Is Human Rights Discourse Relevant in the Muslim World?, Journal of Church
The Paradoxes of U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Shaping Cultural Politics in the Muslim World: Women's Empowerment as an Alternative to Militarism, Terror, and War
NGOs and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
(2003). NGOs and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan. International Peacekeeping: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 138-155
The Priest and the King: An Eyewitness Account of the Iranian Revolution
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