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Understanding Iran: Attempts At Unravelling The Structures That Determine Iranian State Behaviour, Simran Gupta Jan 2019

Understanding Iran: Attempts At Unravelling The Structures That Determine Iranian State Behaviour, Simran Gupta

Senior Projects Spring 2019

The goal of this paper is to determine if Iran is a rational actor and to determine the basis of its rationality. If Iran is categorized as an unpredictable and unreliable state, more coercive and isolation based foreign policy decisions would make the most sense. However, if an effort is made to understand the state’s rationality there can be more effective policies that would be more likely to produce the behavior policymakers desire without causing more instability in the international community.


Iranian Islands?: Bahrain, Abu Masa, And The Tunbs In The Persian Gulf, Lucy Flamm Jan 2015

Iranian Islands?: Bahrain, Abu Masa, And The Tunbs In The Persian Gulf, Lucy Flamm

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Iran; Nicaragua; Cuba; An Analysis Of Revolutions, Neil Moynihan Jan 1981

Iran; Nicaragua; Cuba; An Analysis Of Revolutions, Neil Moynihan

Honors Theses

Can these revolutions be explained by the withdrawal of the United States? It seems not. Can all three revolutions fit under any one theory of revolution? The answer here will probably also be: no; each theory, however, gives valuable hints about what aspects of each revolution one should analyze.