Comparison of Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia with respect to Iraq after the fall of Saddam

Subject Areas : Political and International Researches Quarterly

Received: 2011-12-28 Accepted : 2012-03-10 Published : 2012-06-19

Keywords: Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Power, Religion, Geopolitics, comparison, similarities, differences, Interests, James Rosenau,

Abstract :

Following the fall of the dictator Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, the Republic of Iraq has turned into a new emerging political power in the Middle East with the Shiite government approach, and due to the new geopolitical situation and regional and international geo-economics (oil resources) for both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the extra-regional powers have come to political competition field to exert their influences and gain strategic alliances with Iraq in order to protect national and regional interests.This paper is based on a comparative foreign policy analysis of Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia with regard to Post-Saddam Iraq and then analyzes the importance of Iraq in adopting those policies from political point of view, international relations concepts and Rosenau’s model as well