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...Vasileios Karagiannopoulos Abstract This article focuses on the internet-facilitated revolutions of the Green Movement in Iran in 2009 and the recent 2011 events in Egypt that led to the ousting of Mubarak. In both cases of political unrest, the internet and mainly social media were considered...

... newspaper editors, journalists, and secular intellectuals. They have even harassed and jailed parliamentarians. Khatami's government, however, has succeeded in improving Iran's relations with the West, Russia, China, and the Persian Gulf states. In Iran a central issue is how to increase the constitutional...

...Atallah S. Al Sarhan Abstract This study aims to explain the role of the economic dimension of Iran’s foreign policy toward Iraq between 2003 and 2020. The study shows that after the U.S. occupation of Iraq in 2003, there were fundamental shifts in the structure of Iraqi power and identity...

...Mohsen M. Milani Mohsen M. Milani IRAN'S ACTIVE NEUTRALITY DURING THE KUWAITI CRISIS: REASONS AND RAMIFICATIONS Abstract Since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, Iranian foreign policy has become increasingly moderate. Iran's active neutrality during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait...

... to better appreciate the challenges resistance movements in the MENA region have been facing. To that end, the persisting threat of fascism in Turkey, the Arab world, and Iran are examined critically. While the article applies the ideology form theory, a new critical theory of fascism, the soundness...

...Chalmers Johnson Abstract “Blowback” is a CIA term first used in March 1954 in a report on the 1953 operation to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran. It is a metaphor for the unintended consequences of covert operations against foreign nations and governments. The suicidal...

... of this paper is to examine the relationship between dcfensc spending and budgetary allocations in twelve Middle Eastern and North African/Mediterranean countries: Malta, Cyprus, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Bahrain, Iran, Pakistan, Israel. In recent years, many of these countries have been...

... with creating a democracy). As we've seen from all the economic laws imposed by the occupation, the United States sought to create a radically free-market client state. A client state would check the regional power of Iran. Transforming Iraq would wipe out the heart of Arab nationalism and improve Israel's long...

... Arab client. The search turned even more urgent by the events which had taken place in Iran one month earlier. Complacent that the Shah of Iran would remain in power indefmitely,the US was blind to the growing signs of popular disaffection. 1978, however, had been debilitating year for the durability...

..." should Egypt sign a treaty with Israel. l9 At 168 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE Tunis, the summit was visited by representatives from the new revolutionary regime in Iran, looking for Arab support of the Iranian takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran. The Iranians were barred from the conference hall while inside...

... at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has published numerous articles on the Middle East and Central Asia in academic journals. He is also the author of The Superpowers' Involvement in the Iran-Iraq War (1998) and Iran's Foreign Policy Since 1990: Pragmatism Supersedes Islamic Ideology (1999...

...Howard L. Reiter Howard L. Reiter Unmobilized Constituencies: U.S. Public Opinion of the Nicaraguan War The revelations of the Iran-Contra hearings underscored the high priority that the Reagan administration gave to its armed conflict with the government of Nicaragua. No other part of the world...

..., and recounts its creation by League of Nations mandate, in accord with British imperial interests, in the wake of World War I. The third chapter traces the establishment of the Ba'athist regime in the years between 1945 and 1979. Chapter 4 outlines the history of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, and relates...

..." and the "Free World"; movements towards the former represented "bolshevizing," a deviation from the normal course of development.11 US Foreign Policy Makers and Modernization Scholars Meet In 1953 and 1954, US intervention in Iran and Guatemala led to the respective overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh and Jacobo...

..., and the NSC itself. 42 Michael Parenti numbers of their citizens because of their dissenting political views, as in Turkey, Zaire, Chad, Pakistan, Morocco, Indonesia, Honduras, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, the Philippines, Cuba (under Batista), Nicaragua (under Somoza), Iran...

... presents several case studies involving the debate over withdrawal from Iraq, the politics of genocide and human rights in US foreign policy, and the characterization of Iran's nuclear program. DiMaggio's research of press coverage of prospects for withdrawal in Iraq finds that "The bounds of media...

... wages war on Moslem fundamentalism and secular states that show even a modicum of opposition to corporate domination of world markets and resources. Today Iraq is under attack, and tomorrow it may be North Korea or Iran. Further down the list of countries now targeted with US nuclear weapons are Libya...

... of security threats. He has expressed willingness to negotiate with regimes like Iran, Syria, and Cuba and greater support for agreements on nuclear weapons reduction and climate change. In these ways Obama's "realism" represents a departure from the crusading fantasies of his predecessor. Indeed Obama's...

..., as challenges to Anglo-American control over petroleum resources and transit routes multiplied. Covert attempts to subvert the Syrian regime began even before Eisenhower came to power and were vigorously pursued by the Dulles brothers through the 1950s, while in Iran, Egypt, and Iraq, nationalist forces...

... fluke, I alone had citizenship status (because, as the song goes, I was “born in the USA”). In Guatemala and Iran, my grandparents and many of my other older relatives had been active in the politics of their home countries as political journalists, party activists, elected legislators, and so forth...