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Iran’s Foreign Policy towards the Civil War in Afghanistan
Abstract
There appeared a severe civil war in Afghanistan between the end of the Soviet invasion in 1989 and the US military intervention in order to overthrow the Taliban in 2001. Together with the global powers such as USA and the Soviet Union, (Russia afterwards) some regional powers intervened this civil war by giving various kinds of supports to the warring sides. Iran is also amangst these regional powers, which intervened Afghan civil war. This study aims to explain Iran’s foreign policy towards the civil war in Afghanistan, together with the main motivators that shape its foreign policy, and the reflections of its internal political developmens, the political developments wordwide, and the course of the civil war in Afghanistan towards the foreign policy of Iran. In this way, the transformation of Iran’s foreign policy towards Afghanistan, from isolationism to an increasing interventionism, from hard ideological to a realpolitical approach is going to be put forward.
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Turkish
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Review
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Publication Date
April 1, 2016
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January 1, 2016
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Year 1970 Volume: 8 Number: 2