Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Rouhani's First Two Years in Office: Opportunities and Risks in Contemporary Iran; 2 Iran and the Changing Regional Strategic Environment; 3 Iran's Janus-Faced US Policy: The Rouhani Administration Between Continuity and Change, Opportunity and Constraint; 4 Brothers or Comrades at Arms? Iran's Relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan; 5 The UAE and Iran: The Different Layers of a Complex Security Issue; 6 How Foreign Is the Kurdish Issue in Iran's Foreign Policy?; 7 Mesopotamian Nexus: Iran, Turkey, and the Kurds

8 Charting a New Course? Testing Rouhani's Foreign Policy Agency in the Iran-Syria Relationship9 Bonyads as Agents and Vehicles of the Islamic Republic's Soft Power; 10 Future Prospects; Selected Bibliography; Notes on Contributors