Arman Abrishamchian is a fourth-year History major and Asian Languages minor. His thesis analyzes the diplomatic relationship between the United States and Afghanistan during World War II (1941-1945). His research explores the reasoning behind the United States government’s feet-dragging in the region, as well as the strategies of both sides’ important actors to leverage benefits from the other. Looking at relevant administrations’ state department archives and the limited past scholarship on the time period, Arman describes the beginnings of a relationship that has dominated the last twenty years of news headlines. Arman rows for UCLA and edits the campus satire magazine, The Westwood Enabler. He intends to study law and work as a speechwriter and comedy writer.