this paper deals with the importance of regionalism in iran's foreign policy. some of the existing outlooks view the characteristics of iran's power structure and politics in such a way that make any security-political, economic and cultural coalition and cooperation difficult in the region. but the author holds that political, security and geopolitical changes in the middle east regi...

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since 1962 and despite a lot of changes in american policies and international political system during these years, u.s foreign policy toward cuba was fixed and based on containment and pressuring on its government. power of cuban lobby is one of the most important reasons of this matter. sources of power and the way this lobby was formed, its political agenda and considerable successes in u.s ...

after collapse of the soviet :union:, russia is faced with strategic vaccum in its foreign policy for a time. thus, we were witnessing a period of unstable, inactive and reactionary policy- making in russian foreign policy while the us was expanding its influence on the russian periphery. but in putin's administration, the russian foreign policy has evolved dramatically. putin put the infl...

Under their initiative on Global Health and Foreign Policy, launched in September, 2006, in New York, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, France, Indonesia, Norway, Senegal, South Africa, and Thailand issued the following statement in Oslo on March 20, 2007-In today's era of globalisation and interdependence there is an urgent need to broaden the scope of foreign policy. Together, we fa...

in this paper, we will review the foreign exchange market and will try to extract an exchange market pressure and an intervention index for iran by following the weymark (1995) approach to evaluate the central bank of iran’s exchange rate policy during 1368:q1 to 1391:q3. the estimation method employed, is the econometric technique known in the literature as the two-stage least squares (2sls).t...

conduct and orientation of states in their foreign policy are affected by geopolitical constant and variable factors. the authors of the present paper try to study the impact of variable factors on determining the islamic republic of iran’s foreign policy in the 1979-2005 period, on the basis of holsti’s trilogy on foreign policy (orientations, national roles and goals). exploiting the concept ...