Internal Factors and its Impact on Iranian Foreign Policy

• Authors: Radosław FIEDLER
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Islamic Republic of Iran has a political structure with co-shared and competitive activity in the field of foreign policy. There are two power centres the president and the supreme leader. Iranian political elite is composed of factions of the conservatives, moderates, pragmatists, and reformers. Each faction has influence on the course of Iranian foreign policy. The dominant faction, conservatives, has caused isolation and imposition of severe sanctions on Iran during Ahmadinejad’s presidency Although domestic sources of foreign policy reveals competition among different factions there is consensus in principal goals of Iranian foreign policy. 

Keywords

EN

Iran; Foreign Policy; Supreme Leader

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Strategiczny
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 211-220

Dates

published

2018-11-30

Contributors

author

Radosław FIEDLER

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/ps.2018.1.15