Due to its inherent geopolitical Specification and new Geo-economic components, Africa has become a strategic area for emerging powers to compete. As many analysts have called this century as the century of Africa. From this perspective, international activists (such as More
Due to its inherent geopolitical Specification and new Geo-economic components, Africa has become a strategic area for emerging powers to compete. As many analysts have called this century as the century of Africa. From this perspective, international activists (such as governments, multinational corporations, transnational corporations) are revising and designing their strategic policies and strategies with Africa.In the same framework, one of the main orientations and fundamental attitudes of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the international arena is the issue of developing relations and expanding relations with Africa and promoting the level of cooperation in various aspects of political, economic and cultural affairs with African actors.The question now is that Iran, which, according to its 1404 vision document, is seeking to play an effective role in acting as an active inspiration in the field of international relations, does have a pattern in its relationship with Africa? And what are the characteristics of Islamic-Iranian Patterns to Islamic relations with Africa?The research method is descriptive-analytic and based on qualitative method and data collection, written and online sources.
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As IR scholars have long recognized, the alignment with foreign actors has been particularly relevant for regional balance in the West Asian power relations and in the same way, France is among the powers that has always been taken into consideration in the West Asian e More
As IR scholars have long recognized, the alignment with foreign actors has been particularly relevant for regional balance in the West Asian power relations and in the same way, France is among the powers that has always been taken into consideration in the West Asian extra-regional alliance strategies. Besides that, over the past two decades, economic leverages has gained momentum in IR including in cross-regional Geostrategic alignments and are employed as an important foreign policy tool. So the main question of this article is how the Geo-economics have shaped French foreign policy within the context of West Asian geopolitical rivalry and what have been the consequences for Iran? Supposing that the region's vast commercial, financial and arms market have been evolved into Geo-economic leverages, ready to influence the foreign policy behavior of major trans-regional powers, this paper examines the use of these leverages in the context of Saudi-Iranian cold war and demonstrates that how this trend has paved the way for Franco-Iranian foreign policy confrontation on multiple regional issues.Current studies suggest that, in addition to the bipolar atmosphere surged from Saudi- Iranian conflicts, the Spillover of the region's crises into Europe and the US “Pivot to Asia” strategy, among others, are major contextual components determining France interventions in West Asia. The results of this study indicate that the aggregation of economic levers in the camp of Iran's regional rivals has conferred certain competitive geopolitical advantages and has affected French foreign policy options while adding to the fragility of Franco-Iranian relations.
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Post-Cold War logic of Strategic competitions does not follow the Logic of war anymore except in unfortunate regions of the globe. Geopolitical Competitions have gained an economic-commercial feature with declining position of militant confrontations. Eurasian Economic More
Post-Cold War logic of Strategic competitions does not follow the Logic of war anymore except in unfortunate regions of the globe. Geopolitical Competitions have gained an economic-commercial feature with declining position of militant confrontations. Eurasian Economic Union provides a set of economic instruments to serve Competitively Geopolitical Goals in only few years whereas European Union passed it in decades. The logic of Conflict predominates over actions of the Union and traces commercial goals of Eurasian member states in confrontations to other Unions and Political units. Geo economically, Iran will face new occasions after this Union formation and if those are not noticed, competitive strengths of Iranian Geopolitics will be lost. In this Article those Geo-Economic occasions are studied.
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