Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure,
trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily …

For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and
West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they …

This book is an interdisciplinary research work designed to be of interest to a broad range of
academics. The book examines the relationship between democracy and the (trans) …

Despite continuing to be a strong tendency in international relations today,“state
revisionism” has been theoretically and empirically understudied. This article attempts to fill …

Abstract In the Middle East today, there are strong tensions between global and local
aspirations in landscape architectural projects. Modernism, introduced to major cities in the …

ABSTRACT On 27 September 2020, Azerbaijan went to war with Armenia on a scale not
seen since the ceasefire of 1994. The conflict ended in another ceasefire on 10 November …

While contests and conflicts are well recognized in heritage research, analysis of the specific
circumstances and dilemmas that individuals and groups face when pursuing heritage goals …

This paper examines the activities of a group of heritage enthusiasts in Iran. Grass roots
heritage activism is a relatively recent phenomenon that appeared in Iran since the late …

Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a
subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism and memory studies. While the …

Iranian identity cannot be conceived of as a uniform monolithic concept. But, thanks to
certain upheavals in the history of the country, it has turned into the triple concept of …