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"Modernity and Nationalism" published on by Oxford University Press.

Contemporary explanations of revolution privilege material power & the interests of 'rational' actors over ideas. Drawing on Max Weber's seminal insights & recent work by social constructivists, I argue that agents & ideas were important in both the revolutionary situation & outcome of the Iranian Revolution. The revolutionary outcome in particular was the result of the combination of the charismatic leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, the 'agent,' with the normative content of political Islam, the 'structure.' Given the relative explanatory power of this method, the emergence of a 'fourth school' in the literature on revolutions is warranted. Adapted from the source document.

The 'generation' has been largely forgotten in the fields of sociology and political science, especially regarding global politics. This volume re-engages the concept of a 'generation,' utilizing it to explore how it can help us understand a variety of processes and patterns in International Relations and Comparative Politics.

Introduction -- Intelligence history -- Intelligence and security institutions: organizations and processes -- Comparative intelligence systems -- Intelligence operations -- Counterintelligence -- Covert operations -- Cyberspace operations and the information environment -- Intelligence regulation and governance -- Inter-agency communications -- Intelligence analysis -- Analytic methods -- The ethics of intelligence -- Threats to the United States and its interests.