DAFF 25A36 - From Ajax Operation to the Nuclear Deal: an introduction to contemporary Iran

DAFF 25A36 · Semestre de printemps 2025-2026

Langue d'enseignement
English
Type d'enseignement
Cours séminaire
Nombre d'heures
24
Crédits
5

Informations

Descriptif

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 goal 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.

Pré-requis

Aucun

Mode de validation

Oral presentation40%
Written essay in class50%
In-Class participation and assiduousness10%

Lectures

Lectures principales 4

  1. - Ervand ABRAHAMIAN (2021), Oil Crisis in Iran. From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat, Cambridge University Press.

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  2. - Mohiaddin MESBAHI (Spring 2011), “Free and Confined: Iran and the International System”, Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 9-34.

  3. - Vali NASR (2025), Iran’s Grand Strategy. A Political History, Princeton University Press

  4. - Yann RICHARD (2019), Iran. A Social and Political History since the Qajars, Cambridge University Press.

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Lectures secondaires 3

  1. - FRONTLINE, PBS Documentary (2018), BITTER RIVALS. Iran and Saudi Arabia, Part I and II.

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  2. - PBS America documentary (2021), The Iran-Iraq War: A Tragedy that changed History.

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  3. - The Iran Podcast, with Negar Mortezavi

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Unités pédagogiques

N° d'UPType d'UP Unités pédagogiquesEnseignants Nombre d'heuresCrédits
59184Cours séminaire From Ajax Operation to the Nuclear Deal: an introduction to contemporary Iran Eva ZAHIRI245

Enseignants

  • Eva ZAHIRI

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Contacts et ressources

Contact pédagogique
NICOULEAU Svetlana