Investigating the confrontation between Iran and America's foreign policy from the perspective of the balance of threats theory

Zadeh Kazerooni, Damoon; Khoshkhagtti, Mehdi; Jafaripabandi, Seyyedfarshid

doi:10.22034/sm.2024.2039050.2229

Investigating the confrontation between Iran and America's foreign policy from the perspective of the balance of threats theory

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors

damoon zadeh kazerooni ¹

mehdi khoshkhagtti ²

seyyedfarshid jafaripabandi ²

¹ PhD student, International Relations, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran.

² گروه روابط بین الملل، واحد زنجان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، زنجان، ایران.

10.22034/sm.2024.2039050.2229

Abstract

The confrontation between Iran and the United States is the most important aspect of the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic, so that the consequences of this confrontation have also affected regional and global equations. In this regard, this article analyzes and evaluates Stephen Walt's threat balance theory with the aim of applying a proportional theory to understand the causes of the conflict between these two countries.

The main question raised in this article is that according to the theory of balance of threats, what are the reasons for creating and intensifying the confrontation between Iran and America? The findings of the research, which were obtained by descriptive and analytical methods, show that all four components of creating a threat, which were proposed by Walt, were present in the relations between Iran and the United States, and therefore, the confrontation between these two countries in the form of the application of the aforementioned theory. Before analysis and justification.

Keywords

Balance of threat

security

offensive intentions

military power

influence