The Journal of Foreign Policy

The Journal of Foreign Policy

The Revolutionary-Islamic Identity of the Islamic Republic of Iran ‎in Its Various Discourses of Foreign Policy ‎

Document Type : Research Paper

Abstract
The advent of the Islamic Republic of Iran contributed to creation of a new identity for Iran in internal and international arena. The most inter-subjective structural elements of this identity were the norms derived from the context of Iranian-Islamic culture. This identity conveys different national and transnational responsibilities on the Iranian government and creates a value-judgment system or a new paradigm for this system introducing different criteria for "us" and "others" in internal and international arena.
The main question of this article is whether this identity named as "revolutionary-Islamic" has been the same in different discourses of foreign policy or generated different roles for the system of Islamic Republic depending on its interpretation and domain.