Technological Diplomacy of Iran with Emphasis on Defensive and Security Technologies

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Nozar Shafiee ¹ (استادیار گروه علوم سیاسی دانشگاه اصفهان)
Asghar Shokri Moghadam ² ()

Received: 2014-09-23 Accepted : 2014-09-23 Published : 2014-09-01

Keywords: regionalism, Islamic Republic of Iran, Diplomacy, D&eacute, tente, technological diplomacy,

Abstract :

Abstract In today’s world one of the main elements constituting the power is high technologies. High technology is behind political, economic, military, cultural and information power. The developments of high technologies have led to change in dimension, sphere, forms and mechanism of power in international scene. These developments have confronted the countries with new problems and one of these problems is technology diplomacy. Taking into consideration West’s technological sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran; the present article wants to answer this question that how technological diplomacy of Iran can provide the security and defense needs of the country? It seems that for obtaining defense related technologies; the country has to know the international limitations on the way of procuring technical needs. Iran has to find institutional and technical ways of technology diplomacy to bypass sanctions and legal and political limitations and this can be possible by relying on regionalism and policy of détente. The methodology used in the article is descriptive and secondary analysis and the theoretical framework is regionalism.