چکیده:
Realism and Neorealism, as dominant approaches to international relations and foreign policy studies, emphasize state-centrism and prioritize structural elements over actors in the international system. They do not recognize a role for ethnicity and ethnic groups in influencing the foreign policy of states. However, with the end of the Cold War, we have witnessed the expansion of the influence of ethnic groups on the security arrangements of dependent systems and regional orders, especially in the Middle East. This article, by examining the inadequacy of the traditional balance of power theory in explaining this expanding trend, presents the "Comprehensive Balance" theory as an alternative model for analyzing the role and influence of ethnicity and ethnic groups on foreign policy, with emphasis on the Middle East.
خلاصه ماشینی:
This article, by examining the inadequacy of explaining the traditional balance of power theory in explaining this growing trend, presents the "Comprehensive Balance" theory as an alternative model for analyzing the role and influence of ethnicity and ethnic groups on foreign policy with emphasis on the Middle East.
The above foundations provide a theoretical possibility for revising the classic balance of power in light of the specific conditions of regions in the post-Cold War era, considering which, David brings together internal and external components and the opportunities and threats of the internal and external environment, and analyzes the foreign policy of Third World governments.
He rightly emphasizes that it is not possible to reduce all of the foreign policy of these two countries regarding the Kurdish issue to comprehensive balance and the existence of internal threats to the two governments and the understanding of the leaders of Tehran and Ankara of internal challenges )44.
His criticism of Olson can be a critique of the conceptual framing of comprehensive balance, which reduces the security considerations of countries solely to internal threats and ignores other areas and factors that influence the foreign policy of governments, especially in the Middle East.
Thus, based on the theory of comprehensive balance, it can be said that the continuation and intensification of this trend, given the challenges faced by some Middle Eastern countries such as Syria and Iran with the international system, as well as the hegemony of the United States and the possibility of the United States using the Kurdish issue to interfere in the internal and foreign security sphere of these two countries, will increasingly influence their foreign and security policy towards developments in the Kurdish regions of the Middle East.
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