Ali Esmaeili-Ardakani
A Critical Evaluation of Twenty Years of Iran’s Foreign Policy 2001-2021

A Critical Evaluation of Twenty Years of Iran’s Foreign Policy 2001-2021

The collection of Article in this book also follows requisite angles of assessment based on this variety in perspectives. Using foreign policy evaluation measures in the first chapter, attempts have been made to discuss new criteria consistent with evolutions in global governance. The author proposes and formulates the criterion of happiness based on people’s satisfaction with foreign policy decisions. Based on this, foreign policy is not merely a tool to advance national interests based on the perceptions of statesmen, but the people’s views and their satisfaction of this must also act as a yardstick. That the people of a country should feel satisfied and gratified by these ideals and how they are...

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