The Islamist Challenge: The Failure of Reform in Tunisia

Issue Date October 1992
Volume 3
Issue 4
Page Numbers 85-97
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About the Author

Mark J. Gasiorowski is associate professor of political science at Louisiana State University. He is the author of U.S. Foreign Policy and the Shah: Building a Client State in Iran (1991), and coauthor (with Nikki Keddie) of Neither East nor West: Iran, the Soviet Union, and the United States (1990).

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