From Ajax Operation to the Nuclear Deal: an introduction to contemporary Iran

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Relying on a multidisciplinary perspective, this seminar aims at providing students with theoretical and empirical tools to apprehend contemporary Iran. The study of decisive historical events, figures and ideologies will enable students to understand how Iran interacted and interacts with global powers. The analysis of the Iranian political and religious model will help understand continuities and discontinuities in Iranian domestic policies (institutional and political structure, state ideology) as well as the evolution of alliances and balances of powers (regionally and internationally). The objective of this class is to encourage students to read and be familiar with the global academic literature.