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Essay on the Saudi–Sunni union
In mid-December 2015, exactly on December 14, Saudi Arabia announced the creation of a broad anti-ISIS alliance including 34 Gulf, Middle East, African and...
Unbalanced Balancing: Domestic Support in Iran for the JCPOA
Even before an official announcement was made that an agreement had been reached on the JCPOA, it was evident that any negotiation would inevitably...
Putting Teeth into Peace: Making the JCPOA Legitimate
Since the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed on July 14, 2015, a fierce debate has ensued within the United States. While...
Future Foreign Policies: Possibilities Facing Iran
Iran’s foreign policy continues to be driven by a series of complex and often times overlapping and contradictory factors, involving its own ideological pursuits,...
A Strange New World of War: China’s ‘Pivot’ to the Greater Caspian
Due to changes in recent geopolitical events, Russia and China cooperate and coordinate politically, militarily, and economically to an extraordinary degree. This new teamwork...
Additional considerations on the Iranian nuclear power
The document issued on December 2, 2015 by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - the Vienna organization which is composed of representatives from...
Wishful Thinking: The Conservative Hold on Power in Post-JCPOA Iran
Within the Iranian domestic political scene the use of the nuclear program to affect elections has been in place for the past decade or...
Trust, but Verify: Countering the Critics of the JCPOA
The real question on everyone’s mind with regard to the JCPOA is whether or not Iran will honor its commitments. There are two differing...
The Ivory Tower and the JCPOA: Experts Sound Off with Guarded Optimism
Just as the early scientists in the 1930s and 40s spoke about the threat that nuclear weapons posed, today’s scholars and experts have spoken...
A Disturbing Double-Standard:A Human Rights Criticism of the JCPOA
Critics of capital punishment have long claimed that the utilization of such measures are inhumane and disregard certain human rights. One state at the...