Volume 9 (2025)
Volume 8 (2024)
Volume 7 (2023)
Volume 6 (2022)
Volume 5 (2021)
Volume 4 (2020)
Volume 3 (2019)
Volume 2 (2018)
Volume 1 (2017)
Main Subjects = Foreign Policy
Number of Articles: 36
The Feeling of Ontological Insecurity: The United Kingdom's Conflict-Seeking Foreign Policy (1998–2003)
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 26 May 2025
Abstract
By the advent of the New Labour government in 1997, under Prime Minister Tony Blair, the UK became actively involved in various international conflicts, including the war in Kosovo ... Read More
De-escalating the India-Pakistan Conflict in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons: 27 Years on
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 19 June 2025
Abstract
The Indo-Pakistani conflict has been one of the longest running issues in International Politics since World War II. The two countries' nuclear weapon tests in May 1998, as a turning ... Read More
Mythical Thought and the Constitution of Israeli Foreign Policy
Volume 9, Issue 2 , April 2025, , Pages 257-291
Abstract
Israel’s foreign policy at times diverges from prevailing realist expectations, specifically rational considerations and prudence. This article argues that this is the result ... Read More
Iran as a Middle Power Balancer: (Time for a Paradigm Shift in Iranian Foreign Policy)
Volume 9, Issue 1 , January 2025, , Pages 193-226
Abstract
The international order is undergoing profound transformations, ushering in a transitional period marked by instability and redefined power structure. This global transition has created ... Read More
Constructivist Analysis of Russia's Military Invasion of Ukraine (2022); Investigating Putin’s Identity Model and Cognitive Actions
Volume 8, Issue 4 , October 2024, , Pages 841-876
Abstract
Constructivism theory believes that the power, security and survival of a nation are often shaped by the identity structures and perceptions of its agents, which in turn define the ... Read More
Saudi Arabia’s Relations with China and Russia, Hedging and Increasing Relative Power amidst American Disengagement from West Asia: Implications, Change and Continuity
Volume 8, Issue 4 , October 2024, , Pages 877-916
Abstract
Saudi foreign policy was mostly affected by its strategic relations with the United States as its primary and sole security provider. However, since the rise of Mohammed Bin Salman, ... Read More
Détente Dynamics: A Neoclassical Realist Perspective on EU Foreign Policy in the MENA Region
Volume 8, Issue 3 , July 2024, , Pages 559-588
Abstract
In the post-2020 security environment of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, marked by the easing of Iranian-Saudi tensions, intra-Sunni reconciliation, the resolution of ... Read More
A Difficult Friendship: Elements of Continuity and Change in Iran-Iraq Relations in Post-Saddam Era
Volume 8, Issue 3 , July 2024, , Pages 615-652
Abstract
Considering that the greatest threat to Iran in the past 400 years has emerged from the geography of Iraq (from the time of the Ottoman rule and onwards), it must be noted that Iraq ... Read More
Presidents’ Conceptual Complexity and Unilateralism in US Foreign Policy
Volume 8, Issue 2 , April 2024, , Pages 209-256
Abstract
The US foreign policy in the post-World War II has been marked by periods of unilateralism, while in other periods, multilateralism has been more prevailing. The existing works, while ... Read More
Britain’s Mechanism of Tolerance in the AASR’s Role Sharing: Case Study of UK-US Conflict of Interests in Iran
Volume 6, Issue 4 , October 2022, , Pages 637-672
Abstract
WWII and its consequences served to bring a new era of extensive cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States, leading to the birth of the Anglo-American special relationship ... Read More
France-U.S. Negotiations on Iran Sanctions during the 1979 Hostage Crisis (Based on France’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs Declassified Archived Documents)
Volume 6, Issue 3 , July 2022, , Pages 411-437
Abstract
One of the most critical issues in Iran's foreign policy is European countries' foreign policy toward the Iran-US crisis. The hostage crisis in Tehran on November 4, 1979 (Aban 13, ... Read More
Institutional Hegemonic Resilience: Understanding the Dynamics of American Exceptionalism in the Institutional World Order
Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2022, , Pages 239-272
Abstract
The post-world war liberal order has been primarily based on the pillars of international institutions inspired from the idea of multilateral agreements and rooted in the ideological ... Read More
Netanyahu’s Rhetoric on Iran: Securitization or Sincere Expression of Fear
Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2022, , Pages 305-341
Abstract
Studies on securitization theory have neglected the fact that securitization is in place only when it is proven that expression of fear is insincere. A number of indicators can be retrieved ... Read More
Iran's Position in Geopolitical Competition between China and India: Emphasizing the Role of Chabahar
Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2022, , Pages 343-369
Abstract
The geopolitical competition between India on one hand and the China-Pakistan axis, on the other hand, have made various researchers investigate the different, unknown, and influential ... Read More
Trump’s Cognition and His Unorthodox Foreign Policy Approach
Volume 5, Issue 3 , July 2021, , Pages 433-472
Abstract
In many aspects, U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy-making was in sharp contrast with that of his predecessors, particularly post-WWII presidents. His hostility ... Read More
A Key Principle or a Key Partner? The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Policy towards Africa
Volume 5, Issue 3 , July 2021, , Pages 473-506
Abstract
According to Iran's constitution, expanding relations with Africa has always been one of the strategic principles in the country’s foreign policy; all previous presidents have ... Read More
The Implications of “Strategic Loneliness” for Iran’s Geopolitics: Inevitable or Constructed?
Volume 5, Issue 3 , July 2021, , Pages 507-544
Abstract
This paper pays particular attention to three critical junctures in Iran’s contemporary history: The Russo-Persian wars of the 19th century, Iran’s occupation by the Allies ... Read More
A Spiral of Distrust: Contingencies of US Decisions in 1978–79 and the Emergence of an Anti-American Path in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Policy
Volume 5, Issue 1 , January 2021, , Pages 47-82
Abstract
The anti-American inclination of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign policy-making is well established, and the bitter aspects of the two nation’s history well known. ... Read More
Power from Revolution: The Configuration and Evolution of Iran’s Political Identity Reflected in the Supreme Leaders’ Hajj Messages
Volume 4, Issue 3 , July 2020, , Pages 437-470
Abstract
This research sheds light on what has constituted and defined Iran’s post-revolutionary political identity and provides insights into its development with important socio-political ... Read More
Exploring Reactions in Paris and Berlin to the US withdrawal from the JCPOA
Volume 4, Issue 2 , April 2020, , Pages 347-378
Abstract
Germany and France are often viewed as the EU pillars in their common European foreign policy. After Brexit, their role has become even more significant. Consequently, the Euro-Atlantic ... Read More
The Impossible Bargain: Iranian-American Relations in the Extended Framework of Putnam’s Two-Level Game Theory
Volume 4, Issue 1 , January 2020, , Pages 37-60
Abstract
Both in the U.S. and in Iran, foreign policy making is the result of a complex negotiation process between the different bodies of the government. In both countries, anti-Iranian and ... Read More
Diaspora Identity: A Profile of Iraqi Immigrants in the USA
Volume 4, Issue 1 , January 2020, , Pages 95-132
Abstract
Since the late 19th century, Iraqi immigrants have formed a community in the United States, which is widely known as a part of the Arab-Muslim diaspora in the country, while the reality ... Read More
U.S. Strategy toward Africa and Trump's Rivalry Competition: A Neo-Classical Approach
Volume 4, Issue 1 , January 2020, , Pages 177-212
Abstract
This article illustrates the fact that the U.S. administration's behavior toward Africa has always been shaped by the conception of rivalries' presence, rather than the potentials of ... Read More
Congressional Foreign Policy Actors on the Two Iran Banking Sanction Laws during the Obama Administration
Volume 3, Issue 4 , October 2019, , Pages 687-730
Abstract
The United States and Iran as former allies turned into adversaries after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Since then the United States has tried to contain Iran as a state ... Read More
Obama’s Counterterrorism Policy and the Washington Post’s Editorials: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Media-State Interaction
Volume 3, Issue 3 , July 2019, , Pages 445-481