Abdollah Ghanbarlou
Abstract From the perspective of international relations, sanction imposers or sender countries have different motives for using this instrument. The change in the US administration’s policy regarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is one of the remarkable examples in this context. This paper tries to answer the following question: What is the theoretical different between (Donald) Trump and (Barak) Obama administrations’ sanction policies regarding Iran despite of being compliant with its obligations based on JCPOA. The paper’s assumption is that while the sanction policy of Obama administration was based on making Iran more committed to international norms, the main motive of...
Abstract This paper tries to explain how holding general elections can promote the state’s international standing and authority. This paper is also trying to explain four effective elements, including democratic peace, the importance of international legitimacy, public diplomacy, and clean slate doctrine to help the researchers to find out the prominent role of holding elections in stabilizing and improving the state’s standing in the international arena. A free general election, in fact, establishes the state’s international interactions, in part, because such elections make other states receive specific signs and concepts, paving the way for the intended states to carry out desired reactions....
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