political science
Ali Bagheri Dolatabadi
Abstract
Studying Iran's foreign policy is one of the most interesting topics among the people and the academic community. This behavior is not specific to Iranians and can, also, be seen among other foreign researchers concerning Iran's foreign policy. Luciano Zaccara is one of the authors who has surpassed ...
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Studying Iran's foreign policy is one of the most interesting topics among the people and the academic community. This behavior is not specific to Iranians and can, also, be seen among other foreign researchers concerning Iran's foreign policy. Luciano Zaccara is one of the authors who has surpassed her counterparts in addressing this issue and has edited a book on the “Foreign Policy of Iran under President Hassan Rouhani’s First Term”. The lack of translation of the book into Persian encouraged the author to introduce the work and critique it in terms of content and form. What makes the book prominent is the participation of some well-known authors in writing the chapters, addressing some areas that have received less attention in Iranian research, such as relations with Africa and the pathology of Hassan Rouhani's foreign policy. Lack of theoretical framework for the discussions, incoherence between the contents of the chapters, and ignoring the scientific neutrality by some authors of the book are among the weaknesses of the work.
political science
Ali Bagheri Dolatabadi; Malek Avarideh
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to critique one of the latest works on Iran's foreign policy by Farhad Rezaei. The questions of the research are: Has the author of the book could survey the subject in a scientific method? How much of the collected data has validity and the results of the book are reliable? ...
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The purpose of this study is to critique one of the latest works on Iran's foreign policy by Farhad Rezaei. The questions of the research are: Has the author of the book could survey the subject in a scientific method? How much of the collected data has validity and the results of the book are reliable? To what extent has this work been able to answer the ambiguities and questions in the minds of Iranian and foreign audiences and be effective? To answer the above questions, first, the main idea of the different chapters of the book has been addressed and criticized. Then, in two separate sections, the book is criticized in terms of content and form. Each of these sections includes two sub-headings: the book's strengths and weaknesses. In the end, the authors stated their general evaluation of the book. The research methodology is descriptive-analytical and conducted by library-based data.
