Posted in Iran, Jacqueline Newmyer, Philip Carl Salzman, Stephen Peter Rosen on Jul 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
From Jacqueline Newmyer and Stephen Peter Rosen Seymour Hersh has recently alleged that the United States government is engaged in clandestine activities to destabilize Iran through appeals to ethnic and religious minorities. We hope that he is mistaken, not because we oppose regime change in Iran but because the history of Iran teaches that governments […]
Posted in Iran, Maps on Jul 11th, 2008 Comments Off on Media mapping of Iran’s missile range
From MESH Admin This week, Iranian television showed missile test launches that included a new version of the Shahab-3 missile, which Tehran claims can travel 2,000 kilometers, or 1,250 miles. Various media outlets accompanied this news with maps showing the range of the Shahab-3. An interesting variation in these maps involves just how much of […]
Posted in Andrew Exum, Chuck Freilich, Diplomacy, Iran, Nuclear on Jul 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
From Chuck Freilich Thirty years ago, in his magnificent book on Perception and Misperception, Robert Jervis argued that people’s views are self-reinforcing. Once we believe something to be the case, we further develop an array of arguments to discount those pesky doubts that we may harbor and to fully convince ourselves that our initial position […]
Posted in Chuck Freilich, Iran, Israel, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Mark T. Clark, Martin Kramer, Nuclear, Robert O. Freedman, Stephen Peter Rosen on Jun 26th, 2008 7 Comments »
Earlier this month, Israel sent more than 100 warplanes on military maneuvers across the Eastern Mediterranean. An unnamed U.S. official described the exercise as practice toward honing the skills for a long-range strike. The assumption is that the maneuvers signal an Israeli willingness and capability to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, if all other measures to […]
Posted in Arab Gulf, Books, Geopolitics, Iran, Iraq on Jun 23rd, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Unexceptional: America’s Empire in the Persian Gulf’
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Marc J. O’Reilly is assistant professor of political science at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. His new book is Unexceptional: America’s Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007.
Posted in Announcements, Iran, Philip Carl Salzman on Jun 20th, 2008 Comments Off on Politics and Change among the Baluch in Iran
From Stephen Peter Rosen and Martin Kramer We are pleased to announce a new paper, the second in our Middle East Papers series. Philip Carl Salzman, professor of anthropology at McGill University and a member of MESH, offers an interpretation of what he calls “Islamic intensification” among the Baluch of southeastern Iran. Often it is […]
Posted in Geopolitics, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Jon Alterman, Lebanon, Steven A. Cook, Syria, Turkey on Jun 6th, 2008 4 Comments »
From Jon Alterman A funny thing has happened in the Middle East: virtually all of the government opposition to the United States has gone away. After almost a half-century of Cold War battles to protect oil fields, deny Soviet access to warm-water ports, and commit hundreds of billions of dollars in aid, the number of […]
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