The repercussions of Rouhani’s foreign policy for Iran’s International Relations

Subject Areas : International Relations

mohammadreza saremi ¹ , alireza rezaei ^{2 *} , ghasem torabi ³

1 - دانشجوی دکتری تخصصی روابط بین الملل. واحد همدان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، همدان، ایران
2 - Department of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Humanities - Hamadan Islamic Azad University - Hamedan Ci
3 - دانشیار روابط بین الملل، واحد همدان،دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، همدان، ایران

Received: 2020-05-26 Accepted : 2021-06-07 Published : 2021-05-22

Keywords: Foreign policy, Constructivism, constructive interaction, Security Dilemma, The 11th administration,

Abstract :

A constructive interaction with the world was introduced by Rouhani’s administration as the main focus, for its foreign policy. This policy was adopted in response to the diplomacy of the ninth and tenth administrations. The constructive policy of the new administration has some principles and constituents. In this study, much effort is consumed to both address the features of a constructive interaction and introduce the 11th and 12th administrations’ foreign policy and to analyze the repercussions of these administrations’ foreign policy for Iran’s international relations.Concerning the topic under study, in this argument the following question is answered: what repercussions will be brought for Iran’s international relations by Rouhani’s approach to constructive interaction in his foreign policy? The findings suggest that the outcomes of Rouhani’s constructive interaction model of foreign policy have been averse to its international relations.Donald Trump’s move into the white House, his definition of a hostile policy toward Iran and launching a maximum pressure campaign on Iran, the US’s unilateral departure from the JCPOA ( the joint comprehensive Plan of Action or “ Iran nuclear deai “ ), regional favoritistic policies of Tramp’s administration were all disadvantageous to Iran. These disadvantages include Hebro – Arabic trends, imposition of sanction regimes as secondary sanctions, the European pendulous treatment of its obligations toward the JCPOA and no comprehensive policy on the part of Russia and China as the non-European signatories to the Iran nuclear deal. In this study, a constructivist approach is a dopted as it’s theoretical framework.