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What is Iran?

Iran occupies a central place in academic study across political science, international relations, history, anthropology, and Middle Eastern studies courses. As a regional power with a distinctive political system that intertwines religious authority and state governance, Iran presents students with a rich set of questions about how government, ideology, and geopolitics interact. Its position in the Middle East, its relationships with neighboring countries including Iraq, and its influence on regional stability make it a recurring subject in courses that examine foreign policy, development, and comparative politics.

The papers archived on this topic reflect a wide range of approaches. Many take a foreign policy and diplomatic angle, examining U.S.-Iran relations before and after key turning points, the Iran-Contra affair, and responses to Iran's nuclear program. Others focus on regional dynamics, including Sino-Iranian relations and the broader international relations of the Middle East. Some papers adopt a case-study approach to domestic issues such as the construction industry and its obstacles, while others analyze specific political moments like Iran's opposition movement following the 2008 election. The role of Islam in the Iran-Iraq War appears as a focused analytical question about religion and armed conflict.

A strong essay on Iran requires a clearly bounded thesis — broad claims about the country as a whole rarely hold up under scrutiny. Evidence drawn from policy documents, scholarly journals, or ethnographies carries more weight than general summaries. Writers should match their sources to their angle: diplomatic topics demand policy and historical sources, while cultural or social topics benefit from ethnographic research. The most common pitfall is conflating Iran's government with its population, which leads to oversimplified arguments about motivation and agency.

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Iran's Intelligence Forces: IRGC, Quds, and Basij Capabilities

Iran has learned to specialize its military and intelligence forces amongst formal and populous contingents. The various elements are reviewed and demonstrate why Iran is probably well positioned to undertake other future conflicts even if it is not as powerful of a military force as it presents itself to be.

Research Paper Doctorate

America Through the Eyes of the World: Freedom and Power

America, without doubt the most powerful nation on earth and the sole super-power of the 21st century evokes vastly conflicting feelings in people around the world, depending on their individual paradigm: the lens…

Paper Undergraduate

Origins, Ideology, and Low Recruitment in Islamic Terrorism

¶ … Terrorism and the Low Numbers of Practicing Terrorists

Research Paper Doctorate

Alexander the Great: Military Genius and Conqueror of the Ancient World

¶ … military strategies employed by Alexander the Great and how he was able to skillfully use his political and military skills in conquering most of Europe and Asia in his time.

Research Paper Doctorate

Capital Punishment: Arguments For and Against the Death Penalty

The issue of the death penalty and capital crime has become one of the dominant issues debated in contemporary culture. The reason for this is firstly a moral questioning of the right to take a life, even when it is in…

Research Paper Doctorate

Selling U.S. Nuclear Technology: Pros and Cons Examined

The sale of United States nuclear technology to other countries has gained more criticism, especially in light of the September 11 attacks and the current war against Iraq. Despite these security concerns, however, many…

Paper Undergraduate

US Sanctions on Iran Analyzed Through a Realist Lens

¶ … United States has since 2005 imposed sanctions and built a multi-lateral coalition to do the same in response to the development of Iran's nuclear program. The sanctions have been further tightened in subsequent…

Paper Undergraduate

US Hegemony and the Continuity of Imperial Foreign Policy

To state that there are no fundamental differences between international politics in 1900-45 and afterwards would be to carry the argument to an extreme, even though the continuities are greater than the discontinuities. Above all else, the liberal, democratic states and empires in the U.S. and Western Europe were highly interventionist and aggressive in the developing world and Global South long before World War II, and this did not change in the Cold War and post-Cold War eras. Even governments that were democratically elected were sometimes overthrown and replaced by more pliable regimes, such as the ‘friendly' dictators of Central America and the Caribbean. At the same time, though, there has also been far more harmony and cooperation between the Great Powers since 1945 than in the previous fifty years, especially through NATO and the European Union. America's alliance with Japan, Britain, France and Germany has survived various stresses and strains over the decades, and even the collapse of the Soviet Union, and this requires an explanation. None of the imperial powers has fought a major war since the invention of nuclear weapons, even though they have intervened frequently against the non-nuclear states of the developing world. Perhaps this alliance is explained by political and ideological affinities, as liberals maintain, or by cultural affinities as opposed to Muslim and Orthodox civilizations, as Samuel Huntington explains—although admittedly Japan is left as quite an outlier here.

Thesis Undergraduate

Nixon's China Opening to Obama's Pivot to Asia Strategy

This essay discusses with regard to the history of China's importance to the U.S., from Nixon's visit to China in 1972 to the present. By concentrating on the visit's effects on both countries and on the world as a whole, the paper attempts to provide readers with a succint explanation of the visit's circumstances.

The Hajj: Islamic Pilgrimage to Mecca Explained

This paper examines in a general matter Islam and Pilgrimage. It beings by offering a summary of what Islam is and what pilgrimage means. Then, it examines the various aspects of pilgrimage, including the differentiations between different sects and different cities.

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