University of Tehran Published jointly with Iranian World Studies Association Journal of World Sociopolitical Studies 2588-3119 4 4 2020 10 01 Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic, by Amin Saikal. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. 326 pp. ISBN: 9780691175478 841 844 85118 10.22059/wsps.2021.334669.1250 EN Janice Webster PhD Candidate of Iranian Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 0000-0003-3217-5190 Journal Article 2020 04 15 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Distinguished Professor Amin Saikal is a prominent Australian Middle Eastern politics scholar and media commentator, so his views on the Islamic Republic of Iran reach a wide audience. His view of Iran is one of an outsider, which entails certain limitations in terms of lived experience and cultural knowledge, but he is a native Persian speaker as well as an experienced researcher with first-hand experience of Iran. Saikal’s writing style and choice of content bridges his academic specialisation and extensive media and political commentary experience. <em>Iran Rising</em> thus has less theoretically sophisticated aims and a wider scope than a purely academic work, but seeks to offer a credible and well-informed portrait of the last four decades of Iranian politics, especially foreign policy.</span> https://wsps.ut.ac.ir/article_85118_537d6b881268453f74d286c0f8efefd4.pdf