DAFF 25A36 - From Operation Ajax To The Nuclear Deal: introduction to contemporary Iran

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 regional and 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. Through the reading and discussion of articles, students will be encouraged to develop their critical thinking and methodological skills.
Eva ZAHIRI
Séminaire
English
Spring 2023-2024
Oral presentation (35%) Written essay (45%) In-Class participation and assiduousness (20%)
- Yann RICHARD (2019), Iran. A Social and Political History since the Qajars, Cambridge University Press.
- Ervand ABRAHAMIAN (2021), Oil Crisis in Iran. From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat, Cambridge University Press.
- Mohiaddin MESBAHI (Spring 2011), Free and Confined: Iran and the International System, Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 9-34.
- The Iran Podcast, with Negar Mortezavi
- PBS America documentary (2021), The Iran-Iraq War: A Tragedy that changed History.
- FRONTLINE, PBS Documentary (2018), BITTER RIVALS. Iran and Saudi Arabia, Part I and II.