Strategic Studies Quarterly

Abstract Before and after the election, Joe Biden has stated that one of his foreign policy
priorities is to formulate and pursue a new US policy towards Iran. At the heart of
Biden's "Iranian politics" is his return to JCPOA. However, there are ambiguities about
nature and quality of this policy and also USA return to JCPOA. Therefore, this article
tries to answer this question: What are the nature, components and coordinates of
Biden's foreign policy towards Iran and what will it be like? By documentary study
method and analyzing the speeches, letters, and statements made by Biden and his
foreign policy team, it is argued that Biden's foreign policy discourse is "liberal
internationalism." His nuclear policy is also based on a thematic and step-by-step link
to return to the JCPOA in the first step, strengthen and expand its provisions and
extend its time in the second step, and finally extend it to the missile program and
Iran's regional influence in the third step.

Abstract Abstract This article explains the link of national security considerations with westernization in turkey's foreign policy. A review of political foreign relations of turkey and its predecessor ottoman empire, shows that two national security considerations have basic role in its foreign policy: foreign domination and domestic dis-integration. These issues, while are too intertwined, come from ottoman/Turkish peculiar geopolitics. These two issues has made western inclination a dominant and permanent character in turkey’s foreign policy in recent decades. Of course, keeping turkey as a strategic partner has been very important for western powers to contain their adversaries.

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This paper intends to answer the question that what the election of President Obama and the new multilateral policy have resulted inAfghanistan. The answer is that this policy has brought the transatlantic views more closely to each other and led them to more joint actions and cooperation. On the other hand, the effective multilateralism will get success only if the Europeans invest more on hard power and theUSto be committed to pay more attention on soft power.

Abstract The way of interaction dominant on GATT and the World Trade Organization on one hand, and regionalism within the preferred groupings on the other, are among the important and sophisticated facts in international trade. While multilateralism puts the emphasis on non-discrimination (based on national acts and Most Favored Nation Clause) in international trade, regionalism is inclined towards preferred behaviors. However, both have grown up in parallel and governments are applying both. Specially, as during the recent decades and after the Uruguay Round lots of agreements have been concluded multilaterally and the WTO has replaced GATT, we witnessed a new wave of regionalism. However, in spite of incompatibility between these two approaches, the "openness" clause can make regionalism compatible with, and even complementary to the multilateralism. The APEC is a model close to the open regionalism which by some completing steps can be an appropriate pattern in this way.