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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Akbarzadeh, Shahram[Herausgeber]
• Conduit, Dara[Herausgeber]

Titel

Iran in the World : President Rouhani'’s Foreign Policy [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2016

Ort / Verlag

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.
• 1. Rouhani's first two years in office : opportunities and risks in contemporary Iran / Shahram Akbarzadeh & Dara Conduit -- 2. Iran and the changing regional strategic environment / Amin Saikal -- 3. Iran's Janus-Faced US Policy : the Rouhani Administration between Continuity and Change, Opportunity and Constraint / Morgane Colleau -- 4. Brothers or Comrades at Arms? : Iran's relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan / James Barry -- 5. The UAE and Iran : the different layers of a complex security issue / William Guéraiche -- 6. How foreign is the Kurdish issue in Iranian foreign policy? / Costas Laoutides -- 7. Mesopotamian nexus : Iran, Turkey and the Kurds / William Gourlay -- 8. Charting a new course? : testing Rouhani's foreign policy agency in the Iran-Syria relationship / Shahram Akbarzadeh & Dara Conduit -- 9. Bonyads as Agents and Vehicles of the Islamic Republic's Soft Power / William Bullock Jenkins -- 10. Future Prospects / Shahram Akbarzadeh & Dara Conduit.
• This book evaluates President Hassan Rouhani's foreign policy during his first two years in office, looking at the case studies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, the UAE, Turkey, and Syria, as well as the Iran-US relationship. President Rouhani came to power in Iran in 2013 promising to reform the country's long-contentious foreign policy. His top priorities were rehabilitating the Iranian economy, ending the nuclear dispute, rebuilding relations with the US, and mending ties with Iran's neighbors. It is argued here that while President Rouhani has made progress in the Iran-US relationship, in nuclear negotiations and some bilateral relationships, his broader success has been hampered by regional political developments and domestic competition. Further, it is contended that his future success will be guided by emerging regional tensions, including whether Iran's neighbors will accept the terms of the nuclear agreement.
• English