TY - BOOK AU - Saraswat, Deepika ED - Indian council of world affairs TI - Between survival and status: :The counter-hegemonic geopolitics of iran SN - 9789354550706 U1 - 327.1010954 PY - 2022/// CY - Chennai PB - Macmillan Publishers Indian Private Ltd KW - Diplomatic relation KW - Geopolitics KW - Iran N2 - Between Survival and Status: The Counter-Hegemonic Geopolitics of Iran explores how the Islamic and revolutionary identity of Iran has been (re)produced in the geopolitical discourse of Iranian state elites over forty years from the Islamic Revolution in 1979 to 2019. The point of departure for this book is that forty years since its foundation, the Islamic Republic of Iran has pursued a counter-hegemonic geopolitics steeped in the Islamic ideology articulated by its founder Ayatollah Khomeini ER -