A Difficult Friendship: Elements of Continuity and Change in Iran-Iraq Relations in Post-Saddam Era
A Difficult Friendship: Elements of Continuity and Change in Iran-Iraq Relations in Post-Saddam Era

Mahdi Ahouie; Mohammad Tefagh

Volume 8, Issue 3 , July 2024, , Pages 615-652

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2024.380095.1453

Abstract
  Considering that the greatest threat to Iran in the past 400 years has emerged from the geography of Iraq (from the time of the Ottoman rule and onwards), it must be noted that Iraq ...  Read More
The Implications of “Strategic Loneliness” for Iran’s Geopolitics: Inevitable or Constructed?
The Implications of “Strategic Loneliness” for Iran’s Geopolitics: Inevitable or Constructed?

Mahdi Ahouie

Volume 5, Issue 3 , July 2021, , Pages 507-544

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2022.335019.1252

Abstract
  This paper pays particular attention to three critical junctures in Iran’s contemporary history: The Russo-Persian wars of the 19th century, Iran’s occupation by the Allies ...  Read More