![]() ![]() In The Geopsychology Theory of International Relations in the 21st Century: Escaping the Ignorance Trap, B.M.Jain unfolds that neither a global hegemon nor a cohort of powers could weaken their resolve and break their morale, as proven in the cases of Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Korea. It argues that peace and stability in the troubled parts of the world warrants an imperative need for understanding psychological dispositions of non-state actors and authoritarian regimes. It explains how geopsychology is different from mainstream international relations theories in terms of primary actors, human behavior, spatial application, instruments, and key issues. Students in this course will emerge with a better grasp of what drives individual states and of the underpinnings of the regional balances of power and ideological factors that shape their relationships they will also acquire an understanding of some theoretical issues in foreign policy, which are also applicable beyond the Middle Eastern region.This book introduces an innovative theoretical construct of geopsychology to navigate the complex dynamics of international politics in the 21st century. Each of the four is studied through the prism of a foreign policy analysis theme: in the case of Turkey, geopolitics versus identity in the case of Iran, ideology versus pragmatism in the case of Egypt, security versus economic drivers and in the case of Saudi Arabia, foreign policy means and ends. The course then focuses on four major regional powers, Turkey, Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and the ways in which they have shaped the region in the two decades since the turn of the 21 st century and the 9/11 attacks. It begins with a brief historical outline which concentrates on three turning points: the interwar period of the 1920s-1930s which witnessed the genesis of the modern states system the Cold War period and the post-Cold War moment of unilateral US power in the 1990s. ![]() This course offers an introduction to contemporary Middle Eastern international relations from a foreign policy analysis perspective. ![]()
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