İRAN STRATEJİK KÜLTÜRÜ

Year 2016, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 44 - 67, 01.12.2016

Ayşe İrem Aycan

Abstract

Stratejik kültür, realist teori bir ülkenin niçin belirli bir şekilde hareket ettiğini açıklayamadığı durumlarda o ülkenin dış politika kararlarına anlam vermek için kullanılabilir. İran’ın stratejik kültürünün, genel olarak Şiilik üzerinden anlaşılabileceği düşünülmektedir. Ancak, bu makale Şiilik’in İran rejimi tarafından araçsal olarak kullanıldığını göstermektedir. İran, coğrafi ve politik faktörleri dikkate alarak ulusal çıkarları doğrultusunda hareket etmektedir. Din ise, halk desteğini toplamak ve politika tercihlerini meşrulaştırmak amacıyla rejim tarafından kullanılmaktadır. Bu makale, 1979’daki devrimden bu yana, İran’daki dış politika karar alma prosedürlerini ve belirli dış politika kararlarını inceleyerek İran’ın stratejik kültürünü derinlemesine analiz edecektir

Keywords

Stratejik kültür, Şiilik, İran, Dış Politika

IRANIAN STRATEGIC CULTURE

Abstract

Strategic culture can explain foreign policy option of a country when realist theory cannot give meaning to why that country acted in a particular way. Iranian strategic culture is, in general, assumed to be understood by focusing on Shi’ism. However, this paper shows that Shi’ism is instrumentally used by the Iranian regime. Iran by taking into account the geographical and political factors acts along its national interests. Religion is useful for the regime in order to gather the support of the people and legitimizing the chosen policy option. The paper will analyze this by looking deeply into the literature on strategic culture, foreign policy-making procedures in Iran and specific foreign policy decisions since the revolution in 1979

Keywords

strategic culture, Shi’ism, Iran, foreign policy

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