The Point of No Return: Iran's Path to Democracy

A Washington Institute monograph. He argues that since 1979 urbanisation, literacy, industry, international contact and women's participation have pushed Iranian society toward democracy, and that a liberal-democratic paradigm has replaced revolutionary ideas. He sets the revolution in two centuries of conflict between modernity and tradition, democracy and despotism, and examines what these changes mean for Iran's political future.

Summary written with AI. The full article belongs to The Washington Institute (Policy Focus 54).