The study begins with a puzzle in historical state formation outcomes: Why did Kuwait survive while its Arab neighbor in southwest Iran--the forgotten shaykhdom of Muhammarah--did not? Despite starting from roughly similar positions in 1899, Kuwait survived but Muhammarah disapp…
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This dissertation considers the impact of international organizations on the security of weak states through an analysis of the effects of NATO on two member states: Greece and Turkey. The dissertation argues that both the realist and institutionalist schools in international re…
This study focuses on the primacy of the national interest in determining foreign policy. This topic is analyzed through the prism of U.S.-Iranian relations from 1989 to 2002, as the U.S.-Iranian example is one where historical determinants and divergent ideology led to the brea…
This study rests on one major contention, namely, that in the seven years from the end of the Second World War to Turkey's entry into the Atlantic Alliance in 1952, there was a major reformulation of Turkey's national interests and a resultant reorientation of her foreign relati…
This thesis examines the historical development of Turkey's foreign policy up to the period immediately following World War II, and its decision to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The study begins with a survey of Turkey's geopolitical importance. The narrati…
This thesis covers diplomatic events prior to the 4 November 1979 hostage crisis in Iran. It discusses communications from the Carter administration to the government of Iran at the peak of the Monarch's downfall and how the Shah came to believe that the Western world and Presid…
Terrorism has been claimed to be a major problem by hundreds of thousands of people in the international arena for years. Either it has been very difficult to determine and understand the reasons for terrorism, or those reasons have never been studied because of the immediate th…
In recent decades, many developing countries have launched trade reforms aimed at an export-oriented strategy. While most of these countries have experienced a reversal of these reforms, only a few have managed to sustain them. What explains these two different paths? Why is a s…
This study examines why industrialization from above succeeded in South Korea, but failed in Iran. The primary focus is on the strategic role of the state within the context of Dieter Senghaas' Listian development model. Each chapter covers a decade in the history of both countr…
In recent years, the attention is being increasingly drawn to the role of the European Union on the development of minority rights in the candidate countries. The adoption of the Copenhagen political criteria, which also require "respect for and protection of minorities," as pre…
In this dissertation, the objective has been to explain the variance in trade policy and trade-related institutional outcomes across countries and over time. First, the study of ten episodes during which trade policy came to the Spanish and Turkish governments' agenda between la…
The current dispute over Iran's nuclear programme has triggered, and indeed been aggravated by, reports of planned military strikes against both its nuclear and military installations. This paper considers the legality of an armed attack. It examines whether military interventio…
The objective of this dissertation is a theoretical study of the interactions of three components of security policy in which core value, threat, and strategy are respectively independent, intervening and dependent variables. Considering scholars' disagreements as to whether or …
This dissertation seeks to compare Iran's foreign policy during the nationalization movement of the Mosaddegh era and the resulting conflict with Britain (1951-1953) with the hostage crisis of the Khomeini era and the subsequent conflict with the United States (1979-1981). It wi…
The title of this thesis is "Iran's Foreign Policy Decision-Making under the Shah: 1968-79". The thesis is based on an analytical framework drawn from Brecher's model. His model consists of input, process and output. From Brecher's perspective, input comprises operational and ps…