Diplomacy and Reform in Iran

Foreign Policy under Khatami

Bibliographic Data

ID23201111
AuthorsEdward Wastnidge (0000-0003-2311-0619, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDiplomacy and Reform in Iran (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherI.B. Tauris (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350986091
OpenAlexW4231828050
ISBN9781350986091
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Nuclear power has for the most part dominated Western media and academic analyses concerning Iranian foreign policy in recent years. This focus, however, can be misleading, especially as regards the early presidency of Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005). In a riposte to Samuel Huntington's 'Clash of Civilisations' theory, Khatami proposed that there ought to be a 'Dialogue among Civilisations'. In this book, Edward Wastnidge examines Khatami's proposition, derived from the contemporary Iranian polymath Dariush Shayegan, not as a philosophical suggestion, but as a real foreign policy tool that enabled Khatami to make overtures towards the US. Across bi-lateral and multi-lateral examples, he explores its specific application and how it was used to create foreign policy and aid diplomacy. Furthermore, by placing the development of the idea within Iran's domestic political context, Wastnidge is also able to shed light onto the rise of the reform movement during this period. Based on extensive research

Context (archaeology) · Diplomacy · Epistemology · Foreign policy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Presidency · Proposition · Scholarship · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in MENA

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