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Why does the rift between the US and Iran persist? A new book by CIS scholars sheds new light on this longstanding conflict.

About the speakers/authors:

Hussein Banai is associate professor of international studies at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He is a research affiliate of CIS.

Malcolm Byrne is deputy director and director of research for the non-governmental National Security Archive, based at George Washington University. He is a research affiliate of CIS.

John Tirman is executive director of and a principal research scientist at the MIT Center for International Studies.

About the book

Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict was published April 12, 2022, by Johns Hopkins University Press. It can be purchased here.

Audience members can use the promo code HTWN for 30% off Republics of Myth.

Co-sponsors:  MIT Center for International Studies (CIS)

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