Jalil Bayat
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This research has endeavored to explain Barack Obama's approach to the Iranian nuclear crisis based on the image theory in international relations. While competing theories point to issues such as the structure of the international system or comprehensive international sanctions as key factors in reaching ...
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This research has endeavored to explain Barack Obama's approach to the Iranian nuclear crisis based on the image theory in international relations. While competing theories point to issues such as the structure of the international system or comprehensive international sanctions as key factors in reaching a nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1, this study focuses on the mental, perceptual, and personality traits of President Obama. Accordingly, the main research question was asked as follows: Why did Barack Obama take a different approach to his predecessor’s to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis? Based on the psychological principles and image theory, our initial answer is: Obama's perception of Iran as a regional power and considering the previous policy as damaging, as well as his personality type, led him to take a different approach from that of George W Bush in resolving the Iranian nuclear crisis. The approach of this research is explanatory and its method is a case study. The documentary method of data collection has been used.
jalil bayat; Mohsen Eslami
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On the 17th December 2014, the resumption of relations between US and Cuba became the most important political news during the past few decades in the world. Yet, some analysts say the detente model of US and Cuba is applicable to Iran-US relations. Similarities between Iran and Cuba such as the revolutionary ...
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On the 17th December 2014, the resumption of relations between US and Cuba became the most important political news during the past few decades in the world. Yet, some analysts say the detente model of US and Cuba is applicable to Iran-US relations. Similarities between Iran and Cuba such as the revolutionary governments, Anti-Americanism, being sanctioned by the US and many other similarities reinforces this proposition. Therefore, the present study has examined this possibility with the following question: Is it possible to use the détente model US - Cuba on US-Iran relations? It was found that due to some differences between Iran and Cuba at the systemic level, including the different regional pressures and at the unit level, such as different positions of the two countries in the international system, different perceptions of America among the leaders of the two countries, different relationship of the communities of the two countries with that’s of the US make is impossible to compare. Hence, it is not applicable to use Cuba-US detente model to Iran-US relations. The approach of this study is descriptive-analytical, the method is comparative and Data are collected through the library-based research method.
