Bibliography

The Complete Works

Upcoming Works

Forthcoming A Memoir of Louis Hjorslev

Forthcoming     From Troy to Jerusalem: Archaeology, Heritage and International Conflict (current research for a publication in the field for 2023, Silvio Zamorani, Torino, Italy)

Forthcoming     Italy and Mediterranean Security: Foreign Policy Challenges, (to be published in 2023 by Franco Angeli, Milano, Italy)

Books

2015                Dopo il Sionismo, le Radici Evangeliche dell’Alleanza Usa- Israele in Israele e il Libro, ed. by Lucio Caracciolo (Limes, Roma, Italy)

2013                Wading Through Conflict: American Foreign Policy & the Middle East, (Silvio Zamorani, Torino, Italy)

2011                Iran: The Legacy of the Islamic Revolution, (University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland), Rowan and Littlefield, New York.

2001                The Origins of the Gulf Wars, (University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland), Rowan and Littlefield, New York.

1995                Iran: The Political Sociology of the Islamic Revolution, (University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland), Rowan and Littlefield, New York.

1987                “Iran: The Political Sociology of the Islamic Revolution, Shiloah Institute, Tel Aviv University, Israel

1986                The Arms Build-Up in the Persian Gulf (University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland), Rowan and Littlefield, New York.

Journal, magazine articles, research findings, working papers, etc.

2022                “How Iran’s Clerics See the “West”, in Limes, January 2022

2021                “Europe, Immigration and Sustainability”, in Inter Security Forum, November 10th 2021. https://www.inter-security-forum.org/europe-immigration-and-sustainability/

2021                “Archaeology, Heritage and International Conflict” in Inter Security Forum, September 26th 2021. https://www.inter-security-forum.org/archaeology-heritage-and-international-conflict/    

2020                “Middle East: New Configuration of Power in the Post-Trump Era” in Inter Security Forum, December 23rd, 2020. https://www.inter-security-forum.org/middle-east-new-configuration-of-power-in-the-post-trump-era/

2020                “Eastern Mediterranean, the Return of History: Greece, Turkey, Italy and the Great Power Game” in Inter Security Forum, June 9th 2020. https://www.inter-security-forum.org/eastern-mediterranean-the-return-of-history-greece-turkey-italy-and-the-great-power-game/

2020                “The United States and China in the Mediterranean: New Great Power Conflicts in an Ancient World” in Inter Security Forum, May 28th 2020. https://www.inter-security-forum.org/the-united-states-and-china-in-the-mediterranean-new-great-power-conflicts-in-an-ancient-world/

2020                “Iran and Israel” in Limes

2019                “Erdogan’s Turkey as a Revisionist Power” in Babilon Italian Journal of Geopolitics January 2019.

2018                “The Wars within Islam: Shi’ites and Sunnis in the 21st Century” in H Fusion June 2018.

2017                “Politics of Ethnicity in North Africa” in H Fusion December 2017.

“Non si sciogliera a breve l’imbroglio mediorientale” in Harvard Business Review Italia October 2017.

“On Brexit” in The Franklin Gazette Spring 2017.

2016                “Hobbes, Machiavelli e la Guerra Cibernetica” in Limes June 6

                        Interview: Steinmann, Luca. “ Ecco perche’ gli Stati Uniti difendono Israele.” Gli occhi della guerra. April 29, 2016. http://www.occhidellaguerra.it/ecco-perche-gli-stati-uniti-difendono-israele/

2015                Interview: Steinmann, Luca. “L’Unione europea? È un prodotto americano”. Il Giornale. December 4, 2015. http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/economia/l-unione-europea-prodotto-americano-1201218.html

The Islamic Republic of Iran: The Genesis of its Foreign Policy since 1979” in American Diplomacy, November 2015.

 “Dopo il Sionismo, le radici evangleiche dell’alleanza USA – Israele” in Limes: Rivista Italiana di geopolitica. October 2015. English title: History, Religion, and Power Politics: Israel and the United States Today.

2014                “Marxist Theoretical Debates in Europe During the Cold War” in American Diplomacy February 2014.

                        “Saudi Arabia‘s Foreign Policy and its Security Challenges” in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs May 2014.

                        “The Middle East in 2014: A Guide for the Perplexed” in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs June 2014.

                        “Sunnis and Shiites: The Jihadi Spring in the Middle Eastin Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs June 2014.

                        “International Security and the Asian Pivot: The United States and Chinain Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs June 2014.

2013                “Leveraging American Security Policy in the Caribbean: Rafael Trujillo the Axis Threat and European Refugees in the 1930’s” in American Diplomacy November 2013.

“Iran and the Failure of American Sanctions” in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs Magazine, July 2013.

“68th UN General Assembly Agenda and Expectations” in the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Diplomatist, October 2013.

“Global Impact of the European Union” in the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Diplomatist, May 2013.

“Mediterranean Security and Italy’s Political Instability” in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs, November 2013.

“Oman: Tradition, Modernity, and Stability” in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs, September 2013.

“Iran and the Failure of American Sanctions” in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs, May 2013.

“The End of History and the Clash of Civilizations Revisited” in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs, April 2013.

2012                The following articles and other research work will be incorporated in a book on The New Configuration of Power in the International System: Readings in Global Affairs:

“Rio 2016: The City of Many Firsts” the Diplomatist, September 2012

“The Arab Spring & the Arab Israeli Conflict” the Diplomatist, August 2012

“Lessons from Los Cabos Looking Beyond the G20 Summit” the Diplomatist, July 2012

“National Images, Soft Power and Mass Media” the Diplomatist, June 2012

“Elections in Europe: Lessons for America” the Diplomatist, June 2012

“The Future of France after May 2012” the Diplomatist, May 2012

“Putin and the Future of Russia” the Diplomatist, May 2012.

“Cyprus: Confronting the New Configuration of Power in the Middle East” the Diplomatist, April 2012. 

“The Rise of China in the World” the Diplomatist, April 2012. 

                        “What Nelson Mandela means to Africa” in the Diplomatist, April 2012.

                        “The BRICS are Coming” in the Diplomatist, March 2012

                        “What does Iran Want?” in the Diplomatist and reprinted by Gateway House: the Indian Council on Global Relations. Feb. 2012.

2011                Iran’s Clerical Regime’s ‘Jewish Problem’” in Democracy and Security, Volume 7, 2011.

                        Marketing A Nation: An Economic Necessity” in Bizceos, July 2011.  Also published in Arabic in The Gulf Times, July 2011.

2010                “V.S. Naipaul and Islam” in Caribbean Quarterly, September 2010.

                        “The Birth of a New Class”in Al Jazeera, April 2010.

2006                “The Quest for Modernity in the Middle East and the Islamic World” in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Dec. 2006

2002                “The Politics of OPEC Pricing in the Middle East” in Marine Money, May 2002.

2001                “Oil and History in Marine Money, October 2001.

1993-1995       “Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East: A Prospective on the 1990`s”. Paper written in the Summer of 1993 for the Foundation for Middle East Studies, Toronto, Canada.

                       Presentation of paper on research findings at Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, and York Center for Strategic Studies in Toronto

1992                “The Middle East After the Second Gulf War”, Middle East Focus, pp. 16-18.

                        Presentation of paper on research findings at Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, and York Center for Strategic Studies in Toronto

1984                “The Politics of Transcendence: Some Notes on Khomeini`s Totalitarianism”, Archives of North American Society for Social Philosophy.

1983                “The Other War” Middle East Focus, Vol. 5. No. 6, pp. 12-17.

1982                Politics in Post-Revolution Iran”, Middle East Focus, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 17-21.

1979-81           Miscellaneous articles for the San Diego Union and the Toronto Star

Book Reviews

2019                David C. Hendrickson, Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal Tradition, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018, in The International History Review RINH

2016                Paolo Roberto Graziano, Europeanization and Domestic Policy Change: The Case of Italy, London,Routledge, 2013 in Canadian Journal of Political Science

2012                Andrew M. Dorman, Joyce P. Kaufman, The Future of Transatlantic Relations: Perceptions, Policy, and Practice, Stanford University Press, in Democracy and Dissent, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2012.

2010                Michael Curtis, Orientalism and Islam: European Thinkers on Oriental Despotism in the Middle East and India, Cambridge University Press, in Canadian Journal of Political Science, Volume 43, Issue 02, 2010.

2005                Reviewed two books for the December/Winter issue of the Canadian Journal of Political Science: Beverly Milton-Edwards, Islam and Politics in the Contemporary World, Polity Press: London 2004 and Larbi Sadiki, The Search for Arab Democracy, Columbia University Press: N.Y., 2004.

1996                Review of Shame, by Taslima Nasrin for the Italian Swiss Radio, Rete 2

1995                Fergus Millar, The Roman Near East, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1992 in Harvard Review of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.

1991                Miron Rezun, Ed., Iran at the Crossroads: Global Relations in a Turbulent Decade, Westview Press, Boulder, CO.,1990  p. 239 in Middle East Focus, Fall, 1991, pp. 13-15.

1991                Sohrab Sobhani, The Pragmatic Entente: Israeli-Iranian Relations 1948-1988, Praeger, New York, 1989, p. 173. and Henry Munson, Jr., Islam and Revolution in the Middle East, Yale University press,  New Haven,  1988 p. 188 in Middle East Focus, Summer 1991, pp. 16-19.

1987                Roy Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1985, p. 416 in Middle East Focus, Fall/Winter 1987, pp. 21-27.

1987                Anthony H. Cordesman, The Gulf and the Search for Strategic Stability, Boulder, CO., Westview Press, 1984, In Armed Forces and Society, Spring 1987, pp. 464-66.

1979-81           Miscellaneous articles for the San Diego Union and the Toronto Star

1981                Fereydoun Hoveyda, The Fall of the Shah, Trans. By Roger Liddell, New York, Wyndham Books, 1979, P. 166, and Amin Saikal, The Rise and Fall of the Shah, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1980, P. 279 in The Canadian Defense Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 3, Winter 1980-81, pp. 59-60.

1978                Jon D. Glassman, Arms for the Arabs: The Soviet Union and War in the Middle East, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973, p. 224. In The Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1978, pp. 913-14.