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Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Iran at the Crossroads Pending Trump’s Return(2024-12-01) Karimi, SirvanGiven the prevailing perception of Iran’s Islamic regime as the most immediate threat to American national security, Trump’s return to the presidency in January 2025 may have profound consequences for the ruling clerical regime. Despite its reckless and disruptive behavior and military maneuvers intended to showcase its military power and impress its perceived enemies, it can be argued that the Islamic regime is prone to acting rationally when it perceives a threat to its political survival. The political pragmatism of the regime, as manifested in its inclination to make temporary political concessions, is conducive to forestalling and deflecting any planned US menace on its political existence.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Afghanistan Shows the U.S. Folly of Trying to Implant Democratic Institutions in Abroad(Academic Journalism Society, 2021-09-29) Karimi, SirvanThe rapid conquest of Kabul in Afghanistan and the triumphant seizure of power by the Taliban triggered shock waves throughout the world.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , The Appeals and the Limits of Digital Education in the Post-Covid Era(2021-06-28) Karimi, SirvanThough shifting to online teaching and learning has been a persistent trend for the last two decades, remotely delivered teaching has become a pervasive and ubiquitous worldwide phenomenon during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no misgiving that the staggering impact of COVID-19 on education sector will cement e-learning as an indispensable ingredient of the traditional teaching and learning system. The intensification of the shift to digital teaching and learning is alleged to have the potential to reduce educational costs, diminish bargaining leverage of faculty and teachers’ unions in the education sector, and enhance learning capacity of students. Contrary to the views of ardent exponents of online teaching and learning, it can be demonstrated that e-learning neither reduces educational costs nor can it undermine the bargaining leverage of faculty and teachers’ unions.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Comparing the Politicization of COVID-19 and the Great Depression(2020-06-28) Karimi, SirvanThe COVID-19 pandemic has set in motion a seismic wave of consternation, anxiety, and trepidation. The crisis has provided a fertile ground for the proliferation of books, articles, and case studies across different academic disciplines. While most attention has concentrated on the analysis of the economic, social and psychological impacts of the pandemic, less attention has been paid to the emergence of an environment within which responses to the crisis are politicized by governments, political parties and politicians in order to enhance their electability. Furthermore, the politicization of the response to COVID-19 is to a great extent shaped by political expediency, not ideological orientation. Some have already attempted to compare the COVID-19 crisis and the Great Depression of the 1930s (see Fishback 2020; Gumede 2020; and Smith, 2020). Though the forces behind the economic crash of the 1930s and the recent economic shutdowns emanated from different sources, the politicization of responses to both crises emerges as a common trend.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Canada could benefit from Trump challenges(Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2017-07-17) Karimi, SirvanCanada has an opportunity to bring in, through immigration, the best and brightest students and academics who are alienated by Trump’s policies.