Squandered opportunity : neoclassical realism and Iranian foreign policy
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic Books
| Utgitt | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press , [2015]
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Neoclassical realism -- From power to foreign policy : the causal chain -- Power -- Domestic pathologies -- Iran's policy in Iraq -- Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict -- Iran's nuclear program.. - The Islamic Republic of Iran faced a favorable strategic environment following the US invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. Its leadership attempted to exploit this window of opportunity by assertively seeking to expand Iran's interests throughout the Middle East. It fell far short, however, of fulfilling its long-standing ambition of becoming the dominant power in the Persian Gulf and a leading regional power in the broader Middle East.In Squandered Opportunity, Thomas Juneau develops a variant of neoclassical realism, a theory of foreign policy mistakes, to explore the causes an
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| ISBN | 0-8047-9508-8
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