Document Type : Research

Author

• Majid Behestani

Faculty Member of the Social Studies, Imam Hussein University, Tehran, Iran,

Abstract

This article deals with the critical review of the book "The Foreign Policy of Iran: A Developing Nation in World Affairs, 1500-1941". The importance of choosing this work is that the author of the work, Ruhollah Ramezani, is the initiator of theoretical studies of the history of Iran's foreign policy. This approach in that period, i.e. the years after World War II, was considered an innovative thing for all third-world countries. On the other hand, by translating it into Farsi, despite the gap of fifty years since its creation, due to the poverty of the source and the richness of the work, it was quickly noticed by intellectual and academic circles. As far as it seems, there is nothing wrong with this work. The main idea of ​​the book is that despite the political developments over five hundred years, unrealistic traditionalism has ruled Iran's foreign policy. The main claim of this article is to clarify its content problems and theoretical weaknesses while reading it critically. Conservatism is the essence of his theory, which along with cold rationality gives a framework that even independence movements are rejected.

Keywords

• Foreign Relations
• Iran's Foreign Policy
• Safavi
• Pahlavi I
• Iranian History

Main Subjects

• political science