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: 20
Netanyahu’s Rhetoric on Iran: Securitization or Sincere Expression of Fear
Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2022
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
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
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
Abstract
American mass media’s relation with the US government in foreign policydecision-making has been the subject of numerous studies in the interdisciplinaryfield of political communication. ... Read More
Saudi Arabia’s Aggressive Oil Policy against Iran (2011-2016)
Volume 3, Issue 1 , January 2019, , Pages 199-232
Abstract
Iran and Saudi Arabia have long been engaged in heated rivalry and conflict in the Middle East. These two regional powers are both major oil-exporting countries; in major foreign policy ... Read More
The Prospect of the United States and Saudi Arabia Relations in Light of Khashoggi Murder
Volume 2, Issue 4 , October 2018, , Pages 605-632
Abstract
A decade after the establishment of the Saudi regime Riyadh and Washington constructed a strategic alliance between themselves in 1945. On the other hand, given the “Pivot to ... Read More
Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” Policy (2011- 2016): the Case of China
Volume 2, Issue 4 , October 2018, , Pages 633-674
Abstract
It has been argued and stated that the 21st century is America's Pacific Century, the century or millennium of Asia, and century or era of China, the inevitable superpower. This paper ... Read More
A Qualitative Content Analysis of US Foreign Policy towards Cuba during Barack Obama’s Administration: Hegemony or Leadership?
Volume 2, Issue 3 , July 2018, , Pages 445-481
Abstract
The United States’ relations with Cuba are rooted in the US intervention in the process of Cuba’s independence from Spain in the 1890s. The US preserved its interest-based ... Read More
Iran and Egypt: Emotionally Constructed Identities and the Failure to Rebuild Relations
Volume 2, Issue 3 , July 2018, , Pages 483-506
Abstract
Nearly four decades after Iranian-Egyptian diplomatic relations were severed, the two countries are yet to restore them. This is a result of the predominance of certain negative emotional ... Read More
Political Culture and Iran`s Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of Iran`s Foreign Policy during Ahmadinejad and Rouhani
Volume 2, Issue 2 , April 2018, , Pages 225-245
Abstract
Political culture represents a society`s widely held, traditional values and its fundamental practices; foreign policy decision makers tend to make policies that are compatible with ... Read More
The Impact of Israeli Think Tanks on Israel's Foreign Policy (2006-2017)
Volume 2, Issue 2 , April 2018, , Pages 247-285
Abstract
In the modern world, government policy makers engage in the decision making process to pursue the interests of their countries. Think tanks play a significant role in this complicated ... Read More
A Security Effective Structure for National Defense in the 21st Century
Volume 2, Issue 2 , April 2018, , Pages 355-381
Abstract
In accordance with human necessities and deep attention into security, research studies have today became an irrefutable necessity in this area. It is noted that traditional concepts ... Read More
Iran’s Foreign Policy Approaches toward International Organizations
Volume 2, Issue 1 , January 2018, , Pages 35-68
Abstract
Iran’s foreign policy toward international organizations has always oscillated between divergence and convergence, depending on the status of the country in question and the statesmen's ... Read More
The United States National Security Strategy under Bush and Obama: Continuity and Change
Volume 1, Issue 2 , October 2017, , Pages 175-197