The Complexity Theory and Foreign Policy: Iran's Strategies in West Asia

پژوهش نامه ایرانی سیاست بین الملل

Article 5, Volume 7, Issue 1, April 2018, Pages 113-138   

Document Type: مقالات

DOI: 10.22067/jipr.v7i1.67730

Authors

farhad ghasemi^{* 1}; mohammadreza faraji²

¹tehran

²guilan

Abstract

With the complexity of the international system and its chaos, foreign policy of countries as part of this system no longer follow the linear logic of the past. Therefore, in the field of foreign policy, there is a need for a new analytical system based on the characteristics of such a system. The West Asian system is heavily influenced by the complexity of the international system. Considering of this point, the main qiestion of this research is what is  the principles and basics of Iran’s foreign polciy strtegy in the west asian regional system considering the complexity which are controlling this network ? The diversity of threats, the diversity of actors, dynamics interference, nonlinear behavior patterns, and the intense cluster of network is the characteristics that Iran faces with them in west Asian network, and according to it, the strategic diversity in west of Asia networking and the strategic system based on triangular _ network deterrence  is axis of Iran's foreign policy in West Asia.

Keywords

West Asia; Iran; nonlinear logic; complex system; strategic diversity; Chaotic environment

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