Volume 9 (2025)
Volume 8 (2024)
Volume 7 (2023)
Volume 6 (2022)
Volume 5 (2021)
Volume 4 (2020)
Volume 3 (2019)
Volume 2 (2018)
Volume 1 (2017)
Main Subjects = United States
Number of Articles: 32
Silencing Trauma: Depoliticization and the Concealment of the Political in American Veterans’ Fictional Narratives of the Korean and Vietnam Wars
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 20 June 2025
Abstract
This article adopts an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on trauma studies and critical discourse analysis, to demonstrate how trauma narratives can consciously or unconsciously align ... Read More
Political Obstacles to a Referendum in Palestine: The Case of Iran's Proposal
Volume 9, Issue 2 , April 2025, , Pages 329-369
Abstract
This study assesses the political challenges that hinder the implementation of a proposed referendum on Palestine, framed within Hegemonic Stability Theory (HST), which underscores ... Read More
Americans, Death, Politics
Volume 9, Issue 1 , January 2025, , Pages 1-44
Abstract
This study investigates the relationship between religious beliefs, particularly belief in life after death, and political inclinations among Americans. Utilizing data from the 2022 ... Read More
Cognitive Characteristic and Crisis Behaviour: An Analysis of Donald Trump’s Leadership Style and Operational Code in the Time of Crisis
Volume 9, Issue 1 , January 2025, , Pages 87-115
Abstract
Crisis conditions create ambiguous situations where individuals rely more on their understanding and previous experiences. In the context of politics, depending on a leader’s ... Read More
Conceptualization of the Hegemon Discourse of the Post-Revolutionary Iran in Septembers of Shiraz: A Cognitive-Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Volume 8, Issue 4 , October 2024, , Pages 653-805
Abstract
The 1979 Islamic Revolution marked a pivotal moment in the political relations between the U.S. and Iran, resulting in a “soft war” that primarily unfolded in the media, ... Read More
Adaptive Strategic Ambiguity: An American Response to the Evolving Balance of Power in the Taiwan Strait
Volume 8, Issue 4 , October 2024, , Pages 707-754
Abstract
The geopolitical significance of Taiwan has prompted the United States to remain vigilant about the island's security, even after recognizing the People's Republic of China in 1979. ... Read More
The Tea Party’s Influence on the Evolution of Conservative Republicanism in the United States
Volume 8, Issue 4 , October 2024, , Pages 755-787
Abstract
After the historic victory of Barack Obama, the first African American president, a movement emerged whose adherents regarded the American dream as no longer realizable and saw the ... Read More
Saudi Arabia’s Relations with China and Russia, Hedging and Increasing Relative Power amidst American Disengagement from West Asia: Implications, Change and Continuity
Volume 8, Issue 4 , October 2024, , Pages 877-916
Abstract
Saudi foreign policy was mostly affected by its strategic relations with the United States as its primary and sole security provider. However, since the rise of Mohammed Bin Salman, ... Read More
Presidents’ Conceptual Complexity and Unilateralism in US Foreign Policy
Volume 8, Issue 2 , April 2024, , Pages 209-256
Abstract
The US foreign policy in the post-World War II has been marked by periods of unilateralism, while in other periods, multilateralism has been more prevailing. The existing works, while ... Read More
The (Il)legality of U.S. Sanctions on Iran Post-JCPOA Withdrawal, Focusing on the ICJ's Provisional Measures Order
Volume 8, Issue 2 , April 2024, , Pages 257-295
Abstract
For over three decades, sanctions have been a consistent feature of United States policy towards Iran. Following the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions under the Joint Comprehensive ... Read More
U.S. Maximum Pressure and the Deterrence of Iranian Missiles
Volume 8, Issue 2 , April 2024, , Pages 335-385
Abstract
Following the Islamic revolution, Iran has consistently faced threats from neighboring countries and major global powers. In response to Iran's revolutionary stance and its challenging ... Read More
Geoeconomics of Global Energy Transformation: Exploring the Dynamic Linkages between Oil Prices, Polyethylene Costs, and Shale Gas in the United States
Volume 7, Issue 1 , January 2023, , Pages 55-87
Abstract
The Unconventional Gas Production Revolution in the US has ushered in new opportunities for American petrochemical companies, granting abundant access to gas resources and fostering ... Read More
Britain’s Mechanism of Tolerance in the AASR’s Role Sharing: Case Study of UK-US Conflict of Interests in Iran
Volume 6, Issue 4 , October 2022, , Pages 637-672
Abstract
WWII and its consequences served to bring a new era of extensive cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States, leading to the birth of the Anglo-American special relationship ... Read More
France-U.S. Negotiations on Iran Sanctions during the 1979 Hostage Crisis (Based on France’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs Declassified Archived Documents)
Volume 6, Issue 3 , July 2022, , Pages 411-437
Abstract
One of the most critical issues in Iran's foreign policy is European countries' foreign policy toward the Iran-US crisis. The hostage crisis in Tehran on November 4, 1979 (Aban 13, ... Read More
Institutional Hegemonic Resilience: Understanding the Dynamics of American Exceptionalism in the Institutional World Order
Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2022, , Pages 239-272
Abstract
The post-world war liberal order has been primarily based on the pillars of international institutions inspired from the idea of multilateral agreements and rooted in the ideological ... Read More
Nuclear Deal and Iran Unfreezing; the Case of the International Crisis Group
Volume 4, Issue 2 , April 2020, , Pages 281-318
Abstract
Negative socio-psychological repertoire about adversary exists in many societies plunged in conflicts. The challenge is how to make the structure of the society more flexible for a ... Read More
The Impossible Bargain: Iranian-American Relations in the Extended Framework of Putnam’s Two-Level Game Theory
Volume 4, Issue 1 , January 2020, , Pages 37-60
Abstract
Both in the U.S. and in Iran, foreign policy making is the result of a complex negotiation process between the different bodies of the government. In both countries, anti-Iranian and ... Read More
Diaspora Identity: A Profile of Iraqi Immigrants in the USA
Volume 4, Issue 1 , January 2020, , Pages 95-132
Abstract
Since the late 19th century, Iraqi immigrants have formed a community in the United States, which is widely known as a part of the Arab-Muslim diaspora in the country, while the reality ... Read More
Congressional Foreign Policy Actors on the Two Iran Banking Sanction Laws during the Obama Administration
Volume 3, Issue 4 , October 2019, , Pages 687-730
Abstract
The United States and Iran as former allies turned into adversaries after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Since then the United States has tried to contain Iran as a state ... Read More
Obama’s Counterterrorism Policy and the Washington Post’s Editorials: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Media-State Interaction
Volume 3, Issue 3 , July 2019, , Pages 445-481
Abstract
American mass media’s relation with the US government in foreign policydecision-making has been the subject of numerous studies in the interdisciplinaryfield of political communication. ... Read More
Fiction and Politics of Islamophobia: A Case Study of Greg Hrbek’s Not on Fire, but Burning
Volume 3, Issue 3 , July 2019, , Pages 483-516
Abstract
Islamophobia is defined as a closed-minded hatred, fear or prejudice toward Islam and Muslims that result in discrimination, marginalization, and oppression. This phenomenon was strengthened ... Read More
A Visual Framing Analysis of French and US Political Cartoons on Trump's Withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal
Volume 3, Issue 3 , July 2019, , Pages 605-647
Abstract
The present study examines how Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on May 8, 2018 was framed in political cartoons published in the ... Read More
Israel Advocacy in the Academic Field: The Case of Terrorism Studies
Volume 3, Issue 2 , April 2019, , Pages 409-444
Abstract
Research on the special relationship between the United States and Israel has usually been focused on strategic aspects, whilst fewer scholars have focused on non-material dimensions ... Read More
VoA Special English for Persian Learners from the Perspective of Persian Speakers: A Critical Analysis
Volume 3, Issue 1 , January 2019, , Pages 109-159
Abstract
Using modern, electronic technology to promote the culture and worldview of technology producers and to subjugate its consumers is the gist of what McPhail (2006) calls electronic colonialism ... Read More
Knowledge Politics of the American Academia on Women’s Citizenship in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Islamoromic vs. Islamoveritic Understandings
Volume 2, Issue 4 , October 2018, , Pages 573-603