Iranian Journal of Public Policy

Iranian Journal of Public Policy

Analysis of the Consequences of the Policy of Confrontation and Interaction in the Political Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia

Document Type : Research Article

Authors
Hossein Nafisi Rad 1
Mohammad Ali Khosravi 2
Hojatollah Darvishpour 3
1 Ph.D. Student of Political Science, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
10.22059/jppolicy.2023.92990
Abstract
For about a century, the relationship between the two big Muslim neighbors in the Middle East has always had ups and downs and a trend of distance and closeness in the relations between them. Before the victory of the Iranian revolution, these two countries had a conflict with a lower slope, and after the revolution, they had a conflict with a steep slope and were in opposition to each other and in the last decade, they have experienced a complete distance and disconnection. Therefore, the main question of this research is that which approaches of interaction or confrontation can be effective in line with the national interests of the two countries? In fact, we examine and analyze the ways to achieve a peaceful and stable coexistence between the two countries by identifying their proximity and distance factors. However, the main factors of conflict in their one-hundred-year-old relationship have been caused by ideological differences and mutual destruction.
Keywords
Foreign Policy
The Politics of Confrontation
Engagement Policy
Divergence
Convergence
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Iranian Journal of Public Policy
Volume 9, Issue 1
2023
Pages 93-102