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Iranian Foreign Policy


# 66448
Iranian Foreign Policy
Questions whether the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been coherent.
1,753 words (approx. 7 pages) | 16 sources | MLA | 2005 United States


Paper Summary:

An international relations essay on Iranian foreign policy since the 1979 revolution. The paper argues that foreign policy became incoherent after Khomeini's death in 1989 but notes that Ahmadinejad's leadership has been leading the Islamic Republic back toward its revolutionary roots.

From the Paper:

"In February 1979, a two-day uprising led to the collapse of the Pahlevi monarchy in Iran. The state became the Islamic Republic of Iran, with Ruhollah Khomeini as the Supreme Leader until his death in 1989. After the revolution, the state was "defiant, fiercely independent, proactively religious, and nonaligned." This new stance was reflected in the state's foreign policy, which was, overall, coherent until 1988-9. The end of the Cold War, the Iran-Iraq ceasefire, and the death of the Ayatollah Khomeini led to reorientations of policy. In the late eighties and after, under the presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mohammad Khatami Iranian foreign policy became more self-contradictory. It unsuccessfully combined pragmatic diplomacy with revolutionary behaviour-seeking ties, for example, with states whose leadership it was trying to undermine. The result is that since 1989, the Islamic Republic of Iran has had an incoherent foreign policy, but the current president has been leading it back toward revolutionary behaviour and increased coherence."

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APA Citation:

Iranian Foreign Policy (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Iranian-Foreign-Policy/66448

MLA Citation:

"Iranian Foreign Policy" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Iranian-Foreign-Policy/66448>




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Bookish Ivan US
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Apr 15, 2005
I studied English Lit at Oxford then did a masters in Politics. Currently doing a second masters, once again in English Literature.
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