Russia's Foreign Policy Toward Iran: A Critical Geopolitics Perspective
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2012Author
Omelicheva, Mariya Y.
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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Russia’s foreign policy stance on nuclear Iran has been a subject of debate. Why has Moscow oscillated
between resistance to sanctions and support for punitive measures against Iran in the meantime
supplying Tehran with new arms technologies, despite the protestations from the US? This study
engages with this question. It argues that the conventional approaches linking Russia’s foreign policy to
either geostrategic calculations or considerations of economic efficiency are insufficient because they do
not take into consideration the changing conceptions of geopolitics held by Russia. This study shows that
a pragmatic application of critical geopolitics, which calls for the examination of Russia’s foreign policy
through the lens of its own “geopolitics code” can substantially enhance our understanding of Moscow’s
foreign policy.
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This is an author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication following peer review. The publisher version is available on its site.
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Omelicheva, Mariya Y. Russia’s Foreign Policy Toward Iran: A Critical Geopolitics Perspective,
forthcoming in Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 14(3): 331-344, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2012.720777
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