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Assignment:
Please provide brief responses to the following questions, based on your own reading of the Learning Resources:
- According to Parchami, what is the "duality" at the heart of modern Iranian strategic culture?
- According to Wege, how do Iran's regional political and religious aspirations shape its intelligence organization and priorities?
Readings:
Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture, Chapter 24, Ali Parchami, "An Iranian Worldview: The Strategic Culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran," pp. 341-354.
Carl Anthony Wege, "Iranian Intelligence Organizations," Chapter 8 in Davies and Gustafson, eds., Intelligence Elsewhere (2013), pp. 141-156.
Iran's Revolutions: Crash Course World History 226, 13:40,
"Iran's Military Strategy & Power Projection - Drones, Proxies & Production under Sanctions."
Willis Stanley, "The Strategic Culture of Iran and Its Persian Origins," in Johnson, Kartchner, Larsen, Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction, pp. 137-156.
Pages 1-5, and 30-33 from Michael Eisenstadt, "The Strategic Culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran: Religion, Expediency, and Soft Power in an Era of Disruptive Change," MES Monographs, No. 7 (November 2015).
Nima Gerami, "Iran's Strategic Culture: Implications for Nuclear Policy," Chapter 3 in Johnson, et al, Crossing Nuclear Thresholds, pp. 61-108.
Euan Findlater, "Islamic Republic of Iran's Strategic Culture and National Security Analysis," Small Wars Journal, 18 January 2020.
Andrew Campbell, "Iran and Deception Modalities: The Reach of Taqiyya, Kitman, Khod'eh and Taarof," National Observer 70 (Spring 2006), 25-48.