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In the first of a regular series on The Iran Primer, Helia Ighani explores the wide diversity of opinion in Iran’s media about economic conditions and Iranian policies. |
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Read about USIP’s on-the-ground and region-specific work aimed at the prevention of conflict in North Africa, the Middle East, South and Northeast Asia, and our special project on atrocity prevention. Countries: Iran, Korean Peninsula, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Syria
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention
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Although each revolution is different, each successful case of democratic breakthrough shares common domestic and international influences. This report examines 11 cases of past successes at removing autocratic regimes and establishing elections. It then applies its findings to the emerging revolutions of the Arab Spring. Countries: Algeria, Azerbaijan, China, Ghana, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Mediation and Facilitation, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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A group of Iran analysts previewed their latest research findings in a discussion at the U.S. Institute of Peace co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on June 27, 2012. Drawn from USIP’s Iran Internal Politics Study Group, six scholars looked at the recent dramatic changes in Iran’s political system and offered their take on what these changes mean for the country, its reform movement, and the United States. Countries: Iran
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Human Rights, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Political Reform
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The Olive Branch is the U.S. Institute of Peace blog. It features analysis and in the field reporting from USIP experts and guest bloggers highlighting the Institute's commitment to stability and security. Countries: Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Korean Peninsula, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, The Two Sudans
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Following a report by Russian experts, Iran confirmed on May 28 that a new cyber virus codenamed “Flame” had penetrated Iran’s computer system. The new virus is unlike earlier worms because it was designed to steal information rather than to destroy systems, according to the first report issued by Russia’s Kaspersky Lab. Countries: Iran
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding
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Read about USIP’s on-the-ground and region-specific work aimed at the prevention of conflict in North Africa, the Middle East, South and Northeast Asia, and our special project on atrocity prevention. Countries: Iran, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Korean Peninsula, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Human Rights
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Daniel Brumberg looks at the outcomes of the April 14 "P5+1" talks with Iran in Istanbul. |
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Talks between Iran and a group known as the P5 plus 1 (the five United Nations Security Council permanent members plus Germany) on Iran’s nuclear programs are expected to begin on April 14 in Istanbul, Turkey. The resumption of negotiations might represent an important juncture in the long saga of international efforts to restrain and verify the nature of Iran’s nuclear efforts, which Tehran contends is intended to develop energy sources and conduct research but which the United States and other key international players suspect is a bid to develop the capability to produce nuclear weapons. Countries: Iran, Turkey
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Mediation and Facilitation, Negotiation and Diplomacy, WMD, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control
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On April 6, USIP's South Asia Adviser Moeed Yusuf; Abubakar Siddique, senior news correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, associate researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and professor MPA at Sciences Po in Paris; and Alireza Nader, senior international policy analyst at the RAND Corporation discussed the various problems and potential solutions to improving cooperation and collaboration from Afghanistan's neighbors with the ultimate objective of promoting stability in the country.to discuss how Afghanistan's immediate neighbors - Pakistan, Iran, and the bordering Central Asian Republics - view the present situation and impending security transition in Afghanistan, and what their role and policies are likely to be between now and 2014, and beyond. |