GOVT-318 Politics of Iran
This course offers a survey of Iranian politics. It covers a period that stretches from the Constitutional Revolution of 1905 until the Woman, Life, Freedom movement of 2022. The main objective of the course is to familiarize students with Iran's political development and its domestic and international consequences. To accomplish this objective, the course examines a range of topics including the rise of the modern state and the challenges of state-building in Iran, state-society relations with a particular focus on state-religion relations, the political economy of oil in Iran, the endurance and resilience of authoritarianism in Iran, political movements and revolutions in Iran's modern history and finally Iran's foreign relations with an extensive analysis of US-Iran relations.
Writing-Intensive (18)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
One 200-level course in international relations or comparative politics, or consent of the instructor.