abstract: Time magazine called 1976 "the year of the evangelical" partly in response to the rapid political ascent of the previously little-known Georgia governor Jimmy Carter. A Sunday school teacher and deacon in his local church, Carter emphasized the important role of faith in his life in a way that no presidential candidate had done in recent memory. However, scholarly assessments of Carter's foreign policy have primarily focused on his management style or the bureaucratic politics in his administration. This study adds to the growing literature in American diplomatic history analyzing religion and foreign policy by focusing on how Carter's Christian beliefs and worldview shaped his policymaking and how his religious convictions affected his advisors. To better demonstrate this connection, this dissertation primarily discusses Carter's foreign policy vis-à-vis religious nationalist groups of the three Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). By drawing on archival materials from the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Carter's own voluminous writings, and memoirs of other administration officials, this dissertation argues that Carter's religious values factored into policymaking decisions, although sometimes in a subtle fashion due to his strong Baptist doctrinal commitment to the separation of church and state. Moreover, Carter's initial success in using his religious beliefs in the Camp David negotiations raised expectations among administration officials and others when crises arose, such as the hostage taking in Iran and the electoral threat of the Christian Right. Despite his success at Camp David, invoking religious values can complicate situations already fraught with sacred symbolism. Ultimately, this dissertation points to the benefits and limits of foreign policy shaped by a president with strong public religious convictions as well as the advantages and pitfalls of scholars examining the impact of religion on presidential decision making. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. History 2013

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo a análise estética da Trilogia de Koker, de Abbas Kiarostami, em especial do filme Através das Oliveiras, investigando os efeitos da tematização que o cinema faz de si próprio ao apresentar um filme dentro de outro, intencionalmente quebrando a ficção em prol de uma suposta comunicação mais direta com o espectador, o que gera neste a sensação de diferentes níveis de realidade. Essa discussão passa pelo tema da morte ou diluição da autoria a partir de autores como Derrida, Barthes e Foucault. Lança-se no encalço do Autor moderno, constituído segundo Adorno desde o Dom Quixote, de Cervantes, autor não absoluto, desinformado do destino de seus personagens e que, por isso, inclui no relato romanesco recursos (inclusive a metalinguagem) que passem a evidenciar aspectos de verossimilhança para se fazer crível ao novo leitor. Nessa discussão, emergem questões relacionadas ao fim da narrativa e da arte, a recepção do cinema iraniano, e o embaralhamento dos registros documental e ficcional. Por fim, problematiza as possibilidades de se contar uma história na contemporaneidade. / This work aims to build an aesthetic analysis of Koker Trilogy, by Abbas Kiarostami, specially the film Through the Olive Trees. It investigates the effects of meta-language procedures in cinema, when a film inside another one breaks the linear sequence in order to produce a relational aesthetic communication with the spectators. This opens space for the perception of different levels of reality. This discussion is also related to the topic of the death or dissolution of the authorship, as it is understood in the works of Derrida, Foucault and Barthes. By extension, the ideas of end of narrative are also considered in the analysis. In this sense, it looks after the modern author, created, according to Adorno, since Cervantes Don Quixote: the absolute author, who does not know the destiny of his/her characters and, because of it, includes resources (even meta-linguistic) that put in evidence aspects of verisimilitude to make it believable. In this discussion, some questions related to the end of narrative and of art, the reception of Iranian cinema and the puzzlement of documental and fictitious registers appear. At end, it discusses the possibilities of telling a history in contemporaneity.

Dans cette thèse est présentée la poésie de Forough Farrokhzâd, poétesse iranienne du XXe siècle. Notre étude part du fait que les poètes contemporains iraniens ont été des lecteurs attentifs de la poésie française des XIXe et XXe siècles qui a joué un rôle décisif dans leur ouverture à la modernité. C’est par l’entremise d’une lecture de la poésie Farrokhzâd que nous nous proposons d’analyser ces rapports catalysés ici par la métaphore. Cette figure de style, très ancienne et très située dans la poésie iranienne, définit ainsi une présentation renouvelée des images chez cette poétesse précurseur. Ce travail de recherche évoque aussi, autour de Forough, la poésie féminine dans la littérature iranienne, dans ses créations anciennes et contemporaines. / This thesis presents the poetry of Forough Farrokhzad, an Iranian poet of 20th century. Our research indicates the fact that the contemporary Iranian poets have been attentive readers of the 19th and 20th century’s French poetry which played a crucial role in their openness to modernity. Through the study of Forough Farrokhzad’s poetry we analyze these relationships via metaphor. This figure of speech, very ancient and prevalent in Iranian poetry, defines a new presentation of the images in this precursor poet. This study about Forough also evokes the feminine poetry in Iranian literature whether in its ancient or contemporary creations.

This research tested a conceptual model predicting the propensity to engage in two distinct forms of conspicuous consumption (bandwagon and snob consumption) that was developed by Kastanakis and Balabanis (2014) in a collectivistic Iranian context. This study found that this conceptual model was more successful in accounting for the variance in bandwagon consumption (i.e., conformity seeking conspicuous luxury consumption) than snob consumption (i.e., uniqueness seeking conspicuous luxury consumption) in the Iranian context. In addition to status seeking, it was found that consumer susceptibility to normative influence (CSNI) and consumer need for uniqueness (CNFU) mediates the influence of self-concept on bandwagon consumption. This finding suggests that the relationship between snob consumption and CNFU may differ in the Iranian context. Results also show that the relationships between CSNI, unpopular counter choice conformity (a sub-construct of CNFU) and status seeking with bandwagon consumption were all negatively moderated by consumer knowledge for fashion luxury goods. These findings extend the original conspicuous consumption model and provide some insight for the development of marketing strategies in Iran.

The aim of this master thesis is to analyse the evolution of US-Israeli and US-Iranian relations and to compare the influence of Iranian nuclear program negotiations on the nature of bilateral relations. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter includes theoretical background; the second chapter focuses on US-Israeli relations while the third chapter on US-Iranian relations, from their inception to the present. The final chapter deals with the Iranian nuclear program and negotiations initiated after the Iranian presidential election in 2013, including the impact of these negotiations on the current Iran-US-Israeli relations.

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The aim of the thesis is to reflect on selected modernization reforms of Reza Shah in the first period of the Pahlaví dynasty (1925-1941) from the point of view of women who studied, started families and tried to work in this period. The basic source is women's memoirs published in 2018 in Iran, by Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani. The thesis examines the reaction of women to the Shah's reforms, the consequences of social changes and, more generally, a role these women played in the process of modernization of Iran. The reforms that the work focuses on are related to the position of women in society and have had an immediate impact on their lives: for example, amendments to family laws, education, job opportunities, social activities and the type of clothing. The work is divided into two parts. The theoretical part examines the political and economic background of Iran in the second half of the 19th century and in the early 20th century until the 1940s. It also discusses Reza Shah's government and its plans and reforms for modernizing Iran, and finally the living conditions of Iranian women during this period. It describes the conditions in which they lived, what limitations they faced and what activities they engaged in. In the practical part, it examines in detail the reforms of Reza Shah in the field of...

The aim of the thesis is to reflect on selected modernization reforms of Reza Shah in the first period of the Pahlaví dynasty (1925-1941) from the point of view of women who studied, started families and tried to work in this period. The basic source is women's memoirs published in 2018 in Iran, by Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani. The thesis examines the reaction of women to the Shah's reforms, the consequences of social changes and, more generally, a role these women played in the process of modernization of Iran. The reforms that the work focuses on are related to the position of women in society and have had an immediate impact on their lives: for example, amendments to family laws, education, job opportunities, social activities and the type of clothing. The work is divided into two parts. The theoretical part examines the political and economic background of Iran in the second half of the 19th century and in the early 20th century until the 1940s. It also discusses Reza Shah's government and its plans and reforms for modernizing Iran, and finally the living conditions of Iranian women during this period. It describes the conditions in which they lived, what limitations they faced and what activities they engaged in. In the practical part, it examines in detail the reforms of Reza Shah in the field of...

Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, a distinct female voice has emerged in Persian fictional literature which has ventured beyond the established feminine stereotype of male literary tradition, and remarkably valorized female identities through focusing on interests and concerns of Iranian women, from feminist issues to social and political problems to cultural and moral dilemmas. This body of literature that has been gradually developed, tries to reflect realistic depictions of female protagonists with emotional, intellectual, and moral complexity. To study this progressive process, this research has focused on characterization of seven female protagonists that have been created by different generations of Iranian female authors in the genre of novel.