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Balancing Ends, Ways, and Means: The Case for Reviving Support for “Regime Change from Within” in Iran

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Balancing Ends, Ways, and Means: The Case
for Reviving Support for “Regime Change from
Within” in Iran
Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan
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The
Center of Gravity Concept: Informed by the Information Environment
 

 
 

 



The Guardian,
Tortured Confessions
 

 On War
 
 the U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Issues,
Volume I: Theory of War and Strategy
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


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Ends






Means
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Ways
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Annual Country Report on Terrorism, 
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 
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 
The Washington Times,
 
The Guardian, 
 The Telegraph
 Al Arabiya News,
 The Washington Post, 
 
 HRW,
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 
The Guardian,
 
Mediterranean Quarterly
International Studies Quarterly,

International Studies Quarterly
 
International Politics
 
Managing Global Chaos

 
Sheppard, eds., Research on Negotiation in Organizations 

 Taking on Iran: Strength, Diplomacy and the Iranian Threat

 Council on Foreign Relations,
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Rethinking Strategy

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
The Guardian
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
 The
American Journal of International Law
 
 International Law and the Third World:
Reshaping Justice
 
 The Question of Intervention: Statements by the Secretary General.

 
 
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
Management in AfricaThe Responsibility
to Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty





Responsibility to Protect: The Global Effort to End Mass Atrocities
Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect: From Words to Deeds


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Human Rights Law Review
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