PUBLICATIONS
ECONOMY
Challenges in Online Education in Iran
These challenges, including the provision of online education tools such as laptops, smartphones, Wi-Fi and the Internet, have made online education impossible in many remote areas in Iran.
SOCIETY / CULTURE
Iran’s Cultural Hegemony in Western Balkans
The main Iranian activities in Western Balkan were the opening of colleges, institutes of study, translation and publication of books and magazines.
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PKK in Iran’s Perspective: The Attitudes and The Possibility of a Joint Struggle
The regional equation, along with Iran’s and the PKK’s positioning in this equation, shapes the general characteristic of the Iran-PKK relationship.
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China’s Deepening Strategic Engagement in the Middle East
In terms of energy (both fossil-based and green), geopolitics, geoeconomics, trade, finance, health and digital security, and media and soft power, China’s influence in the region has been growing in the past two decades.
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Iran’s Cyber Power
The National Internet Network project which the Iranian government has begun to build since the 2000s, has been an important step for the isolation in Iran’s cyber domain.
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Iran between the US and China
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (The JCPOA) should be understood in the geopolitical context of Obama’s Pivot to Asia. Obama’s Pivot to Asia was meant to contain China and reduce the American involvement in the MENA region.
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The Terrorist Organization Behind the Curtain: The Madkhali Salafists
First employed by Saudi Arabia against the Al-Sahwa Movement and later expanded for further use, the Madkhali Salafists have become a military organization, as seen in Yemen and Libya.
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The Increasing Role of Geoeconomics: Competition between the Chabahar and the Gwadar Ports
In the global contest for obtaining political and economic power, there are newly emerging trends; geoeconomics and regionalization processes are among those new trends.
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Economic and Socioeconomic Consequences of US Sanctions on Iran
Murat AslanH. Kürşad AslanYasir Rashid
US sanctions affect economic, social, cultural, and political domains.
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Saudi Investment in the East: Implications for Gwadar-Chabahar Rivalry
Ali Haider SaleemArhama SiddiqaMuhammad Abbas Hassan
Notwithstanding their strong position against Iran, the US views Indian investment in Chabahar as a positive sign because it counters China.
