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Nothing in the annals of New Internationalism prepared the Carter team for its historic encounter with the first Islamist theocracy in the twentieth century. In fact, the Western political vocabulary was barely adequate to describe the emerging political system.
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Seliktar, O. (2012). The Carter Administration and the Uncharted Territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In: Navigating Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010889_3
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