Iran's Strategic Thinking: The Evolution of Iran's Foreign Policy, 1979-2018

Nikolay Kozhanov

doi:10.1017/9783959940399

Iran's Strategic Thinking

The Evolution of Iran's Foreign Policy, 1979-2018

- Get access
  
  Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
  
  Log in Register

Nikolay Kozhanov

Publisher:: Gerlach Books
Online publication date:: August 2025
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9783959940399
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9783959940399

Subjects:: Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History, Politics and International Relations, Middle East Government,Politics and Policy
Series:: Gulf Studies

Export citation

Information

Contents

Metrics

Accessibility

What are the ideological motives behind Iran's foreign policy? This new study examines Tehran's twin desires to protect national interests and to project real power.

Factors determining Iran's foreign policy include: Potential economic leader of the Middle East Region; Key player in the oil and gas market; Centre of resistance against global Western domination; US and Israel policy; and Syria as the bridge to Lebanon and Palestine.

There is a strong focus on primary sources, as well as interviews with EU, Russian and Middle East experts, supported by field trips to Iran, Turkey and GCC countries. Political, economic, religious and cultural aspects of Iran's influence abroad are covered. The final chapter covers most recent events and implications of Trump's rejection of the JCPOA.

- Aa Reduce text
- Aa Enlarge text

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge-org.demo.remotlog.com is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Metrics

Total number of HTML views: 0

Total number of PDF views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

Total views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.

Iran's Strategic Thinking

The Evolution of Iran's Foreign Policy, 1979-2018

Book description

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Introduction
pp 1-2

1 - Preconditions for the Evolution of Iran’s Foreign Policy Thinking in the Wake of the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79
pp 3-18

2 - The Formation of Iran’s Foreign Policy Doctrine, 1979-1989
pp 19-38

3 - Iran between Western Scylla and Soviet Charybdis
pp 39-56

4 - Reassessing Foreign Policy Priorities during the Hashemi- Rafsanjani and Khatami Era (1989-2005)
pp 57-84

5 - International Sanctions as the Main Driver of Iran’s Foreign Policy under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-2013)
pp 85-110

6 - From Ahmadinejad to Rouhani and Beyond
pp 111-150

Conclusion
pp 151-156

Notes
pp 157-180

Bibliography
pp 181-190

Metrics

Full text views

Book summary page views

Accessibility standard: Unknown

Iran's Strategic Thinking

The Evolution of Iran's Foreign Policy, 1979-2018

Book description

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Contents

Metrics

Full text views

Book summary page views

Accessibility standard: Unknown