MMW 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Iranian Revolution, Structural Adjustment

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 15
• Professor: Prestholdt

Document Summary

There are outlets where international policy can be negotiated, but there isn"t equal representation so poorer nations are still disadvantaged. Around the world we see the popularization of the idea that societies should adhere to an absolute, incontrovertible set of values. In the middle east, north africa, and elsewhere, the notion that religion and politics should not be separate spheres becomes mainstream political ideology. There is a rejection of both socialism and western capitalism/democracy. 1979 iranian revolution overthrows the shah and clerics gain significant power. State and religion become basically one and the same. Part of a wider rejection of the political forms that came about in the post colonial era. Strict adherence to religious tenets of shi"ah islam. They were looking for a third way between western capitalism and communism. British companies dominated the oil sector in the country and iranian/persian oil was very important to them.