چکیده:
Vacuum of power was one of the most important consequences of USSR Collapse. Regional and Trans-Regional countries have been pulled to south Caucasus to extend their influence on this region. Turkey and Israel thought alliance with Azerbaijan Constitute East-West Pivot. This cooperation threatens common interests of Russia and Iran. Reaction of Tehran and Moscow creates North-South axis thought alliance with Armenia and attempts to affect influence of East-west axis. But interaction between Tehran and Moscow does not seem so sustainable. Thus، this question can be raised: What is the nature of Iran and Russia’s cooperation in South Caucasus? What is the level of Iran and Russia’s foreign policy interaction to deal with the East- west axis? “With the passing of more than two decades of Soviet Union dismantlement، Tehran and Moscow cooperation has not reached strategic level. Regional interactions of Iran and Russia has defensive nature with tactical function.” This hypothesis will be tested by alliances and coalitions in realism theory.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The Interaction of Iran and Russia’s Foreign Policy in Confrontation with The East-West Axis in the South Caucasus * Enayatollah Yazdani Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences, Isfahan University Ehsan Fallahi PhD Student, International Relations, Isfahan University (Received: 2015/08/18 - Approved: 2016/05/10) Abstract One of the most prominent consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union was the creation of a power vacuum in the newly independent republics.
At what level is the scope of interaction between Iran and Russia’s foreign policy aimed at confronting the East-West axis?” “With more than two decades having passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, cooperation between Tehran and Moscow in the South Caucasus has not reached a strategic level.
Table 1 shows a set of 420 Central Eurasian Studies, Volume 9, Number 2, Autumn and Winter 1395 factors that have brought Russia-Iran and Turkey-Israel closer together are shown in three levels: domestic, regional, and international.
Interaction of Iranian and Russian Foreign Policy in Confrontation with the East-West Axis in the South Caucasus 423 c) The Caspian Sea Tehran and Moscow initially insisted that, based on the agreements of 1920-1941, the Caspian Sea should be treated as an inland lake; but the position of the three coastal republics, and especially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is that the lake should be divided among the five coastal states, like a free sea.
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