the us foreign policy processes in the middle east, in the post world war ii period, have always brought about security challenge, danger and crisis, in the region. all us presidents have experienced grave security crisis in this geopolitical area. there also exists many indications of distrust of the current foreign us policy exercised in the middle east on the part of middle eastern citizens....

empowering of terrorist groups in the middle east is the product of numerous reasons. one of the most important of these reasons is the competition between regional powers and their use of the leverage of terrorist groups in order to put pressure on each other. furthermore, immature and wrong policies of great powers like: the united states in militarization of the region have provided new just...

the united states policy toward iran during 1985-7 is a significant issue. the us had followed a confrontationist policy toward iran after the 1979 revolution but a shift in the policy could be observed in the mid 1980's in the form of us attempts to make a rapprochement possible. this article explains this shift through the examination of the impact of this variable: solving us problems i...

In the modern world, government policy makers engage in the decision making process to pursue the interests of their countries. Think tanks play a significant role in this complicated process by giving advice to decision makers. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, think tanks increasingly emerged in the world, especially in Western European countries and the United States of America (...