Investigating the evolution of the concept of security in China's foreign policy in the Middle East region

Subject Areas : Iranian Political Research

mahdi salami ¹ , mashallah heidarpour ² , davod kiani ³

1 - PhD student, Department of Political Science (International Relations), Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran
2 - Member of the academic staff of the Department of Political Science (International Relations), Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran
3 - Member of the academic staff of the Department of Political Science (International Relations), Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran

Received: 2023-09-19 Accepted : 2023-09-17 Published : 2024-12-18

Keywords: the Middle East region, the Belt and Road Initiative, Neorealism, The evolution of the concept of security, Foreign policy,

Abstract :

After the collapse of the bipolar system, many concepts of international relations underwent a transformation of meaning. Meanwhile, one of the concepts of international relations that underwent a change in meaning is the concept of security, in such a way that security changed from a one-dimensional military state to a multi-dimensional state. The evolution of the concept of security has transformed the foreign policy of many powers, including China, in the Middle East. Based on the title of the article, an attempt has been made to answer the question that the evolution of the concept of security has left an impact on China's foreign policy in the Middle East region. In response, this hypothesis has been considered that the evolution of the concept of security on China's foreign policy in the form of a transition from one-dimensional military security to multi-dimensional security has caused China to pay attention to multiple components of security such as political, economic, military and cultural in the region. Middle East has become. In order to infer the transformation of China's foreign policy in the region, four issues of the role and importance of energy in China's relations with the countries of the Middle East region, China's trade exchanges with the countries of the Middle East region, the examination of China's political strategy in the Middle East region and the importance of the Middle East region based on the Belt and Road Initiative, Has been studied. The research method in this article is descriptive-analytical