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EMPOWERED IRAN IN A COMPLEX REGION MIDDLE EAST TEHRANS FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGES AND DIMENSIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).26      10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).26      Published : Mar 2020

'Empowered Iran' in a Complex Region (Middle East): Tehran's Foreign Policy Challenges and Dimensions in the 21st Century

Abstract

    Foreign policy is a serious module in the lives, behaviour, of all nation-states. Recently foreign policy study has acquired new dimensions as a result of a paradigm shift in Iranian foreign policy. Iran has moved away from began camp follower of the United States to an independent political actor with its independent foreign policy. Tehran, from a loyal U.S. collaborator, turned out to be a stalwart opponent. In this backdrop, the study investigates the geo-strategic importance of Iran in the Middle East and Asia as a whole. In fact, because of Tehran's natural resources like natural gas and oil, etc., this region has always been the centre of attraction for major actors. But since Iran has changed her foreign policy roles, from western to Islamic, the region has confronted numerous security issues because of its strong Islamic history. Besides, the data for the study has incorporated from primary source taken from the official website of the foreign office of Iran, and Overall, the study examines why this alteration of the conceptual, political framework in Iran, from nationalism to Islam, has led to assume Iranian foreign policy conferring to Islamic vision.

    Iran, Paradigm, Middle East, Foreign, Strategy

    (1) Muhammad Munib Khalid
    Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Minhaj University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Uzma Naz
    Assistant Professor, Department of IR, Minhaj University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Sajida Begum
    Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Minhaj University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Khalid, M. M., Naz, U., & Begum, S. (2020). 'Empowered Iran' in a Complex Region (Middle East): Tehran's Foreign Policy Challenges and Dimensions in the 21st Century. Global Political Review, V(I), 234-240. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).26

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Khalid, Muhammad Munib, Uzma Naz, and Sajida Begum. 2020. "'Empowered Iran' in a Complex Region (Middle East): Tehran's Foreign Policy Challenges and Dimensions in the 21st Century." Global Political Review, V (I): 234-240 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).26

HARVARD

    HARVARD : KHALID, M. M., NAZ, U. & BEGUM, S. 2020. 'Empowered Iran' in a Complex Region (Middle East): Tehran's Foreign Policy Challenges and Dimensions in the 21st Century. Global Political Review, V, 234-240.

MHRA

    MHRA : Khalid, Muhammad Munib, Uzma Naz, and Sajida Begum. 2020. "'Empowered Iran' in a Complex Region (Middle East): Tehran's Foreign Policy Challenges and Dimensions in the 21st Century." Global Political Review, V: 234-240

MLA

    MLA : Khalid, Muhammad Munib, Uzma Naz, and Sajida Begum. "'Empowered Iran' in a Complex Region (Middle East): Tehran's Foreign Policy Challenges and Dimensions in the 21st Century." Global Political Review, V.I (2020): 234-240 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Khalid, Muhammad Munib, Naz, Uzma, and Begum, Sajida (2020), "'Empowered Iran' in a Complex Region (Middle East): Tehran's Foreign Policy Challenges and Dimensions in the 21st Century", Global Political Review, V (I), 234-240

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Khalid, Muhammad Munib, Uzma Naz, and Sajida Begum. "'Empowered Iran' in a Complex Region (Middle East): Tehran's Foreign Policy Challenges and Dimensions in the 21st Century." Global Political Review V, no. I (2020): 234-240. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).26