Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat (May 2016)

Diversity of Discourse of Foreign Policy and Aspects of Iran's New Nuclear Diplomacy

  • Ali Akbar Jafari,
  • Dayan Janbaz

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 16
pp. 93 – 121

Abstract

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Foreign policy as the most important international behavior of states has always been the area of interaction between theory and practice. The analysis of the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran from internal and external sources has been interpreted from the traditional patterns of foreign policy and based on the mainstream assumptions of positivist and utilitarian international studies. But today it is seriously believed that a realistic analysis of the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran will not be possible except in the framework of our conceptual understanding of the Islamic Republic of Iran. On this basis, we can say that after the victory of the Islamic Revolution we had saw different effects of discursive constructs in the context of the totality of knowledge in the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Therefore, the question of this research is that how diversity discourse in foreign policy had influenced Iran's nuclear diplomacy in different periods of time? In response to this question, the hypnosis of this research is that the diversity of discourse on foreign policy leads to mobilization of resource and consequently, different diplomacy in foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to resolve the nuclear crisis in different periods of time.

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