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OverviewThis book evaluates President Hassan Rouhani's foreign policy during his first two years in office, looking at the case studies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, the UAE, Turkey, and Syria, as well as the Iran-US relationship. President Rouhani came to power in Iran in 2013 promising to reform the country's long-contentious foreign policy. His top priorities were rehabilitating the Iranian economy, ending the nuclear dispute, rebuilding relations with the US, and mending ties with Iran's neighbors. It is argued here that while President Rouhani has made progress in the Iran-US relationship, in nuclear negotiations and some bilateral relationships, his broader success has been hampered by regional political developments and domestic competition. Further, it is contended that his future success will be guided by emerging regional tensions, including whether Iran's neighbors will accept the terms of the nuclear agreement. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shahram Akbarzadeh , Dara ConduitPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781349954148ISBN 10: 1349954144 Pages: 205 Publication Date: 31 March 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Rouhani's first two years in office: Opportunities and risks in contemporary Iran; Shahram Akbarzadeh & Dara Conduit 2. Iran and the changing regional strategic environment; Amin Saikal 3. Iran's Janus-Faced US Policy: The Rouhani Administration between Continuity and Change, Opportunity and Constraint; Morgane Colleau 4. Brothers or Comrades at Arms? Iran's relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan; James Barry 5. The UAE and Iran: The different layers of a complex security issue; William Guéraiche 6. How foreign is the Kurdish issue in Iranian foreign policy?; Costas Laoutides 7. Mesopotamian nexus: Iran, Turkey and the Kurds; William Gourlay 8. Charting a new course? Testing Rouhani's foreign policy agency in the Iran-Syria relationship; Shahram Akbarzadeh & Dara Conduit 9. Bonyads as Agents and Vehicles of the Islamic Republic's Soft Power; William Bullock Jenkins 10. Future Prospects; Shahram Akbarzadeh & Dara ConduitReviewsIranian foreign policy has always been complex and multifaceted, grounded in revolutionary idealism on the one hand and pragmatic realism on the other. This timely volume examines the Islamic Republic's foreign policy at a time of profound change and transition, highlighting some of the inherent tensions and milestones of the Rouhani administration as it charts a new course for Iran's regional and global roles. This is an original and much-needed contribution to the literature that should be read by policymakers as well as academics. - Mehran Kamrava, Professor and Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Qatar This book, focusing on the elements of continuity and the domestic and external drivers of change, brings together many interesting perspectives on Iran and its international relations. Insightful discussions of Iran's regional role are complemented by the sometimes overlooked relationships that Iran has developed over the lifespan of the Islamic Republic. There is much to learn from this work and the direction of research it is illuminating. A fascinating set of chapters. - Anoush Ehteshami, Nasser al-Sabah Professor of International Relations and Director of the HH Sheikh Nasser al-Sabah Research Program, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK Shahram Akbarzadeh and Dara Conduit (eds), A dangerous neighbourhood: Iran's foreign policy challenges under Rouhani 1. This is a most timely book proposal. The negotiations between Iran, the United States and European powers with respect to Iran's nuclear programme have brought political change following the election of President Rouhani to the forefront of international discussion. As a result, there is likely to be a significant audience for a book of the kind that Akbarzadeh and Conduit have proposed. Those teaching specialist courses on the Middle East would benefit from access to a volume of this kind, but the essays that make it up are potentially of interest also to policymakers and the general reader. This is especially the case if it is made available in downloadable electronic form as well as in hardcover and paperback versions. 2. There is as yet no book on the market that would compete with directly with this proposed volume, although there may be some in the pipeline. The closest competitor is probably Robert Mason, Foreign Policy in Iran and Saudi Arabia: Economics and Diplomacy in the Middle East (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015), but it is not all that close. The work promises a high degree of originality. This is in part because the replacement of Ahmadinejad by Rouhani as Iranian President has inaugurated something of a new era in Iran in politics, meaning that the first volumes that emerge to take account of this change almost of necessity will contain fresh material. It is also in part because the contributors are well placed to appraise change taking place in Iran from perspectives that on the one hand are well informed by historical experience, but on the other reflective capacity for critical analysis that a number of the commission contributors have previously put on display in their writings. 3. Professor Akbarzadeh is an accomplished editor whose earlier works have exhibited a real gift for developing integrated structures for edited collections, and selecting the right people to draft the various chapters. Ms Conduit is an early career researcher with less experience but with an excellent guide on hand. The structure that they propose is a coherent one, and the abstracts provided with the proposal, together with the attached draft chapters, give a good sense of what the final book will be like. Obviously one very important element in a book of this kind is a discussion of Iran's likely relations with United States, and this topic is well canvassed in Colleau's chapter. Another area of significance is Iran's relations with Pakistan and Afghanistan; here, there is scope for an expansion of the discussion in Saikal's chapter, an expansion he is well placed to provide on the basis of some of the material contained in his recent book Zone of Crisis: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq (London: I.B. Tauris, 2014). 4. I would recommend that Palgrave Macmillan proceed to publish the book as proposed. Iranian foreign policy has always been complex and multifaceted, grounded in revolutionary idealism on the one hand and pragmatic realism on the other. This timely volume examines the Islamic Republic's foreign policy at a time of profound change and transition, highlighting some of the inherent tensions and milestones of the Rouhani administration as it charts a new course for Iran's regional and global roles. This is an original and much-needed contribution to the literature that should be read by policymakers as well as academics. - Mehran Kamrava, Professor and Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Qatar This book, focusing on the elements of continuity and the domestic and external drivers of change, brings together many interesting perspectives on Iran and its international relations. Insightful discussions of Iran's regional role are complemented by the sometimes overlooked relationships that Iran has developed over the lifespan of the Islamic Republic. There is much to learn from this work and the direction of research it is illuminating. A fascinating set of chapters. - Anoush Ehteshami, Nasser al-Sabah Professor of International Relations and Director of the HH Sheikh Nasser al-Sabah Research Program, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK Author InformationShahram Akbarzadeh is Research Professor of Middle East and Central Asian Politics and Deputy Director (International) of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University, Australia. He currently holds an ARC Future Fellowship on the Role of Islam in Iran's foreign policy and a grant on sectarianism in the Middle East from the Qatar Foundation. Dara Conduit is Researcher at Deakin University, Australia, and a PhD candidate at Monash University, Australia, working on the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. She holds an M.Litt in Middle East and Central Asian Security Studies from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK in 2015. 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