The Semiotics of Influence on Iranian Foreign Policy (with Emphasis on the 1990s)

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1 Professor, University of Tehran

2 PhD student of Higher National Defense University

Abstract

The notion of influence in Iranian political and strategic literature is related to conditions that show signs of a creeping upturn in the behavioral patterns of executives and political officials. The nineties of the "project of influence" were at the heart of the great powers' action to influence Iranian political and foreign policy trends. In the process of influencing the notion of influence in foreign policy, bureaucratic and compromise-based approaches replace the revolutionary ones. It is natural that processes such as bureaucratic brokers and pragmatic policies also replace revolutionary brokers. In general, infiltration in the era of "social networks" and "cyberspace" is shaped by normative signs, and any kind of normalization can have its own implications and consequences in foreign security policy. Signs of influence are a process that forces the centrifugal forces to act in two directions: the first group must consider the entities that are affected by the external environment to create normative contradictions in Iran's political structure; The necessities of bureaucratic action emphasize the concept of political and international compromise. In this article, any force or agency that underlies the termidor is regarded as a symbol of influence. The question in the paper is that "What are the signs, agents, and processes of influence to change the national role of Iran's foreign policy?" It is a symbol of influence in Iranian foreign policy. ”The article is based on Steven Lux's methodology of“ third dimension of power ”in the sense of seduction and deception.

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  • Receive Date: 09 May 2018
  • Revise Date: 13 January 2019
  • Accept Date: 19 September 2018
  • Publish Date: 09 May 2018

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