Constructivist Analysis of U.S. National Security Attitudes Facing Islamic Republic of Iran

Abstract

The present article has posed an analysis of confrontation of U.S. with Islamic Republic of Iran based on a conceptually constructivist framework and answered this question that “what role have security attitudes and imaginations of American political leaders towards Iran-America relations particularly after Revolution?” The article has hypothesized that type of attitude and perception of U.S. officials showing their ideological and supreme power has very largely influenced Iran-America relations. For constructivist concept, imaginative and mental system of people specifies how they behave and act; in fact, the hegemonic imagination that American leaders and American community have towards other people of the world and sense of responsibility and mission for rescuing other people in the world triggered materialization of hegemonic imagination and mission of democratizing the world and salvaging other people in the world by creating international climate security, kicking up horror and dismay, intervening in the affairs of other nations and attempting for subversion of established governments of those nations. The conceptual framework of this article is a constructivist idea and security attitudes of American statesmen vis-à-vis Iran have been analyzed by relying upon constructivist idea.

Keywords

• attitude
• constructivism
• national security
• security