چکیده:
One of the major manifestations of the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran under the Principlists is its significant changes، particularly in comparison to the eras of reconstruction and reform. This paper seeks to analyze the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in this period، utilizing the explanatory capacities of the social identity theory and the analytical concept of status-seeking. The main question of the paper concerns the main reasons behind the change in the foreign policy of Ahmadinejad’s government when compared to the governments in the reconstruction and reform eras. There are also some secondary questions: Can we consider a common ground for Iranian foreign policy in all these periods? What is the main difference between the foreign policy in the Principlist period and that of Ayatollah Hashemi and former President Khatami’s governments? The first secondary hypothesis argues that Iran has always been a status-seeking state in the regional and international systems. The second secondary hypothesis states that Ahmadinejad’s government’s foreign policy differed from the two preceding governments simply in its search for status-seeking strategy. The main hypothesis is that the perception of the policy-makers of this period concerning the failure of former governments to attain status goals، political purposes، and U.S. containment policy has been the main reason accounting for the revision of status-seeking strategy in the Principlist period.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Status-Seeking and Iranian Foreign Policy: The Speeches of the President at the United Nations Vahid Noori Abstract One of the major manifestations of the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran under the Principlists is its significant changes, particularly in comparison to the eras of reconstruction and reform.
This paper seeks to analyze the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in this period, utilizing the explanatory capacities of the social identity theory and the analytical concept of status-seeking.
Keywords: Foreign Policy, Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmadinejad’s Government, Status-Seeking, Identity Management Strategies PhD Candidate of International Relations, AllamehTabatabai University (vahidnoori.
The first secondary hypothesis is that Iran has always been a status-seeking state in the regional and international systems, which provides the common ground of Iranian foreign policy in different periods.
The tentative hypothesis in answering the question regarding the causes of this change in strategy is that the perception held by the Principlist policy-makers on the outcomes of the social mobility strategy pursued by the reconstruction and reformist governments in seeking regional status and political goals on the one hand, and a response to U.
They believed that "in spite of, for 16 years, pursuing"5 the social mobility strategy and norms acceptable to Western states, not only had the Islamic Republic failed to attain its status goals and political purposes, but this trend also caused prestige and status costs for Iran among the Muslim and oppressed nations.