FYS 400 - The United States in the Middle East: Resources

1. What does it mean if a book is on course reserve?
2. How can you find out whether Bates has a book?
3. How do you make requests for books and other things not at Bates?
4. How can you find journal articles using the library website?

Take a look at the following sources:

1. Duncombe, Constance. 2016. "Representation, Recognition and Foreign Policy in the Iran–US Relationship." European Journal of International Relations 22 (3): 622-645.
2. Barak, Ehud, Solcyre Burga, Leslie Dickstein, Anisha Kohli, and Julia Zorthian. 2022. “Iran Is on the Cusp of a Bomb.” TIME Magazine, August 8, 2022.
3. Hamid, Shadi. 2015. “Why I’m Torn about the Iran Deal: Was It Worth It?” Brookings (blog). July 15, 2015. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2015/07/15/why-im-torn-about-the-iran-deal-was-it-worth-it/.
4. Parsi, Trita. 2012. A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Evaluate on:

• Who wrote the source? What can you find out about their credentials?
• What is the publication or publisher that published this article? Who do you think is its intended audience? Who might read it and why?
• What kinds of documentation/citation of evidence appear in the source?
• What kinds of images appear in the source?

Discussion

• Which fits the category of "academic source"?
• Any of these sources could have a use. In what ways is the source you looked at useful? Why would you read one or the other?