Iran’s Permanent Quest for Regional Power Status

Zaccara, Luciano

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“…Studies of Iran's foreign policy have generally concurred with the characterization that it is a very important actor in the Persian Gulf and Middle East region. But, beyond definitions based on actual or potential capabilities, scholars note that a fundamental element for the categorization of a state as a regional power is the acceptance of its status by the states with which it shares a regional system or subsystem, and, as well, on the part of the great powers that control or determine the rules of the game of the international system [Zaccara 2016a]. Thus, it is evident that a regional power is such because it can exercise its greatest capacity to influence at the regional level, although it may intend to project power also on the international level.…”

Section: A Regional Power Aspirationmentioning

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Iran’s Foreign Policy and Evolving Role of South-South Cooperation

Zaccara

2018

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Teor. âzyka semiot. semant

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The Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the most active players in the framework of South-South cooperation. During the Cold War period Iran treated South-South cooperation as an instrument for providing an independent foreign policy and defending the rights of "oppressed" peoples from the influence of colonizers and imperialists. Nowadays this vector of cooperation is used by Iran as tool for gaining regional superiority in the Middle East and the Muslim world in general. This article describes the Iranian foreign policy strategy and determinants from the Shah Pahlavi period until Hassan Rouhani presidency in order to assess whether the tools used to foster South-South cooperation for becoming regional power and achieving international recognition by the international community were useful. The author uses qualitative methodology in order to answer the following research questions: to analyze the Iran's foreign policy literature, to identify the SSC initiatives in the post-bipolar era during the presidency of Hashemi Rafsanjani, Khatami, Ahmadinejad and Rouhani, to explain the essence of "non-aligned strategy" and third-worldism. The article also covers the participation of Iran in the international institutions of the Global South, including Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), G77, etc.

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Section: A Regional Power Aspirationmentioning

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Iran’s Foreign Policy and Evolving Role of South-South Cooperation

Zaccara

2018

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Teor. âzyka semiot. semant

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“…Crucially, these populist discourses are grounded in the particular social, intellectual and historical context of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Consequently, the article provides a novel approach to examining Iran’s construction of the international contributing to other studies that highlight the complexity of its relationship with the international (see Akbarzadeh and Barry, 2016; Warnaar, 2013; Wastnidge, 2015; Zaccara, 2016) and the relational nature of domestic and international politics (Haji-Yousefi and Mohamadyan, [1375] 2017 2 ; Halliday, 2001; Matin, 2007, 2013).…”

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Populism, the International and Methodological Nationalism: Global Order and the Iran–Israel Nexus

Holliday

2019

Political Studies

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This article contends that the international is integral to populism. Thus, it calls for populism scholarship to embrace the interconnectivity between the domestic/internal and international/external. By borrowing from Global Historical Sociology, Global International Relations and Ernesto Laclau’s notion of populist discourse, the article puts forward a new conceptual framework for the study of populism that bridges the gap between Comparative Politics and International Relations. It shows how populist discourse simultaneously constructs several aspects of the social world: the actor who is articulating it and its relationship with its own population, that actor’s relationship with others in the international system, and global order. To illustrate its case, it examines populist discourses of Islamic Republic of Iran elites. Their discourses articulate the need to maintain the Islamic Republic’s legitimacy and populist credentials inside and outside Iran, delegitimise Israel, and construct global order. These discourses are grounded in a historical trajectory: the 1979 Revolution.

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Iran’s Changing Strategic Position in the South Caucasus

Avdaliani¹

2022

New World Order and Small Regions

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Iran’s Permanent Quest for Regional Power Status

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Iran’s Foreign Policy and Evolving Role of South-South Cooperation

Iran’s Foreign Policy and Evolving Role of South-South Cooperation

Populism, the International and Methodological Nationalism: Global Order and the Iran–Israel Nexus

Iran’s Changing Strategic Position in the South Caucasus

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