Iran’s foreign policy making: consensus building or power struggle?

Bazoobandi, Sara; Heibach, Jens; Richter, Thomas

doi:10.1080/13530194.2023.2189572

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“…58 Iran's supreme leader, who exerts a strong influence over the country's strategic policy making, has frequently emphasized maintaining and expanding "strategic depth" as one of the country's fundamental strategies. 59 Moreover, he has expressed his anticipation of a "new world order" and accentuated the significance of "Geography of Resistance." 60 This ideology reflects Tehran's desire for influence in global and regional systems and has played a crucial role in driving the country's power-projection aspirations.…”

Section: The Us-china Rivalry and Iran's Power Projectionmentioning

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Iran's Strategies in Response To Changes in US‐China Relations

Bazoobandi

2024

Middle East Policy

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The dynamics of the relationship between the United States and China have been shifting. This has prompted changes in strategic calculus and policy adoption by the friends and foes of each side. Iran, given its decades‐long links with China, has made several. First, it has deepened its ties with the Asian power beyond collaboration in business and trade. Second, it has revised its policies in the Gulf region to be a part of what it sees as China's network of influence, hoping to better position itself in a multilateral global order. Third, it has been seeking opportunities to project power through showing off its military capabilities in Ukraine. This article examines these strategic responses and concludes that Iran has been pursuing an agenda in line with the world vision of its senior leaders. The end goal for Tehran is to gain more power and relevance in the global strategic calculus. This analysis is part of a special issue examining the responses of Gulf countries to rising Sino‐American competition, edited by Andrea Ghiselli, Anoushiravan Ehteshami, and Enrico Fardella.

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Section: The Us-china Rivalry and Iran's Power Projectionmentioning

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Iran's Strategies in Response To Changes in US‐China Relations

Bazoobandi

2024

Middle East Policy

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“…Of those studies, only Koliev and Lundgren's study investigates the motivations of other countries in visiting the U.S. Studies approaching leader visits as an independent variable are much more diverse. Despite the dominance of the U.S. (Simon and Ostrom, 1989;Brace and Hinckley, 1993;Smith, 1997;Nitsch, 2007;Goldsmith and Horiuchi, 2009;Malis and Smith, 2021;Goldsmith et al, 2021;Eichenauer et al, 2021;Cohen, 2022) and China cases (Fuchs and Klann, 2013;Lin, Yan, and Wang, 2017;Hoshiro, 2020;Chen, 2023;Stone et al, 2022), other countries such as Turkey (Kuşku-Sönmez, 2019;Tepeciklioğlu, Tepeciklioğlu, and Karabıyık, 2023), Brazil, South Africa (Mesquita andChien, 2021), Slovakia (Šandor, Gurňák, andBilka, 2023), Croatia (Peternel, and Grešš, 2021), Russia (Papageorgiou and Vieira, 2023) and Iran (Bazoobandi, Heibach, and Richter, 2023) have been investigated to understand the influence of foreign visits on trade, foreign investment, and legitimacy. Although studies taking leader visits as an independent variable do not provide global visit data of countries in question, they clearly prove the possibility of collecting data for smaller countries.…”

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Determinants of Leader Visits: A Review and Future Directions in Scholarship

Balcı

2024

Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi

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A recent surge in studies on high-level leader diplomacy has the potential to evolve into a fruitful research field. While the current literature predominantly focuses on the leader visits of two great powers, the U.S. and China, this emerging field requires both broadening and deepening in its scope. We lack data on leader visits from the vast majority of countries, and many existing hypotheses do not adequately explain the determinants in various cases. The more countries that are covered and the more refined our hypotheses become, the more insightful this field will be in understanding interactions among states and international organizations. This article aims to present the current state of the literature on leader visits and suggests potential areas of interest for future research.

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Drivers of Iran’s Africa Engagement: An Analysis of High-Level Leadership Visits

Balci

2024

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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The nuanced dynamics of Iran’s engagement with Africa have captivated the attention of a broad spectrum of analysts and academicians. Endeavoring to elucidate the underpinnings of Tehran’s involvement on the continent, these scholars have posited a variety of determinants, yet the empirical validation of these factors remains largely unexplored. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset of Iran’s high-level diplomatic visits to African nations, this study seeks to critically assess the relevance and explanatory capacity of the determinants in the literature. Our findings indicate that ideological imperatives, market needs and access to strategic resources predominantly fuel Iran’s interests in Africa.

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Iran’s foreign policy making: consensus building or power struggle?

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Iran's Strategies in Response To Changes in US‐China Relations

Iran's Strategies in Response To Changes in US‐China Relations

Determinants of Leader Visits: A Review and Future Directions in Scholarship

Drivers of Iran’s Africa Engagement: An Analysis of High-Level Leadership Visits

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