Khomeini and the Islamic revolution -- Dual leadership and Constitutional development after Khomeini -- Thermidor at last: Hashemi-Rafsanjani's presidency and the economy -- Revolutionary ideology and its transformation into Islamic reformism -- The rise and fall of President Khatami and the reform movement -- Social and political consequences of the integrative revolution -- Iran's foreign policy: from the export of revolution to pragmatism -- Iran's new political class and the Ahmadinejad presidency -- Khomeini's successor: Ayatollah Khamenei ans the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran -- The hardliners, foreign policy and nuclear development.
