Iran in an Emerging New World Order: From Ahmadinejad to Rouhani

Iran in an Emerging New World Order is a critical analysis of Irans foreign policy in the post-unipolar world, exploring its geopolitical imaginations and foreign-policy schools of thought. The book covers Iran's foreign policy and international relations from 9/11 to Rouhanis rise in late 2014, accounting for the domestic and international balance of power. It theorizes the post-unipolar world order of the 2000s, examines Iran's relations with non-Western great-powers, and offers a critique of the Rouhani doctrine.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 465 pages
Publication date: 24 May 2022
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This book critically develops and discusses Iran's geopolitical imaginations and explores its various foreign-policy schools of thought and their controversies. In doing so, the book covers Iran's foreign policy and international relations from 9/11 all the way to Rouhanis rise (late 2014). Accounting for both domestic and the international balance of power, the book theorizes the post-unipolar world order of the 2000s, dubbed "imperial interpolarity," examines Iran's relations with non-Western great-powers in that era, and offers a critique of the "Rouhani doctrine" and its economic and foreign-policy visions.

Forged in the fires and intense deliberations of a PhD, undertaken at a most unique institution of higher learning in the world, Ali Fathollah-Nejad has produced one of the most informative and evocative studies of Iran's foreign policy and international relations to date. Framed in a highly original theoretical approach, Ali's nuanced analysis, drawing on a lorry load of primary and secondary sources, details the process and context of policy in the Islamic Republic, thus producing an unrivalled and lasting account of modern Iran's worldview and the behaviour of this revolutionary state in a fast-changing world.

"Iran in an Emerging New World Order flashes out the key drivers behind Iran's international relations since the mid-2000s. Providing evidence for the material and geopolitical significance of Iran's identity constructions, the book enriches the debate on the Islamic Republic's foreign policy and bridges the divide."

—Anoush Ehteshami, Professor of International Relations & Director of the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University (UK)

Weight: 640g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811560767
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021