جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « making theories » در نشریات گروه « علوم سیاسی »

Considering that politics is not anything more than a set of decision-making, foreign policy and international politics can be viewed as crystallization of decision-making by the actors of the international system. At this level, decision-making theories evaluate foreign policy by examining the general milieu and parameters of decision-making. This paper draws upon Rosenau's pre-theory model for analyzing the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, for it is a combination of micro- and macro-levels in studying foreign policy. Through this study, it became clear that in four significant decisions made in Iran's foreign policy the variable of international system has consistently played the major role in making of decisions and before the amendment of the constitution in 1989, the individual variable has been the second determining variable. After the constitution was amended, this variable was replaced with the variable of role. Furthermore, bureaucratic and community variables have been at next places.

The incidence of two widespread wars in the early 1980s and 1990s continue to affect the developments in the Middle East and international relations for many years to come. The main question of the article is why Iraq decided to go to war with its neighbors in the early 1980s and 1990s. According to the author, security considerations have played a crucial part in the decisions made by the Iraqi leaders and other interpretations such as aggressive realism or economic crises are incapable of exploring and explaining the causes of the aforementioned wars. In other words, the driving force behind Saddam Hussein’s decision to go to war with Iran and Kuwait involved his belief in the alien forces’ efforts to destabilize the Iraqi Ba’ath regime. Saddam maintained that despite such efforts, Iraq enjoyed a good chance and capability to win the wars.