Geopolitical location of Iraq and its impact on its foreign policy

Abstract

The study presents a geopolitical analysis of Iraq's location and its impact on its foreign policy. This required a definition of the concept of foreign policy according to a geopolitical perspective. To prove validity of hypotheses, study focused on analyzing material foundations on which Iraq's foreign policy is based: economic and demographic focus. In addition to researching political history of Iraq’s foreign relations, and determining trends of Iraqi foreign policy after 2003 by presenting applied models of Iraq’s foreign political behavior towards geopolitical conflicts in surrounding geographical area. Iraq’s new trends in international and regional environment, which have long suffered and are still suffering from harbingers affecting its security and stability, based on theory of negative rebound effect. The policy of seizing control and seeking initiative and mediation in a region that was and still is rife with crises, one after other.

Keywords

• foreign policy
• geopolitic
• iraq