United States-Iran

International education served a dual function in the American-Iranian relationship during the thirty-seven-year reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. On the one hand, education was the most important component to the shah's project of authoritarian development - a model of rapid…

Complex global challenges--including environmental, economic, diplomatic, and health-related--span national boundaries and increasingly necessitate international cooperation. As a result, diplomacy has broadened from government-to-government relations to include government-to-pu…

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…

In an image from Robert Putnam's two-level-game metaphor, "national political leaders" from nation-states engaged in international negotiations, sit astride two game boards to balance the requirements of playing the international and domestic games simultaneously and effectively…