Ulgū'hā-yi tasmīm'gīrī dar sīyāsat-i khārijī: Persian 1393

The book Decision-Making Patterns in Iran's Foreign Policy is a collection of Mofid University publications, which is written in 374 pages. In the introduction section of the book, it is stated that foreign policy is a guide for positioning in the world. In other words, it includes a set of international goals and ways to achieve them for the members of the international community, i.e. countries. Foreign policy is a strategy or a series of pre-planned actions by government decision-makers whose purpose is to achieve certain goals within the framework of national interests and in the international environment. Therefore, in addition to the fact that the foreign policy of different countries is different, the foreign policy of a country also changes over time. Usually, the goals are chosen by the official decision-makers of the governments to either change the existing international situation in favor of their national interests or try to maintain it. Foreign policy goals are the result of the analysis of goals and means of achieving goals, which can be pursued as short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals for foreign policy decision-makers. Also, there are various patterns and models for examining foreign policy, such as the strategic or logical model, bureaucratic model, adaptation and coordination model, systemic model, and incremental model. The current book authored by Dr. Seyed Reza Mousavinia examines the decision-making patterns of Iran's foreign policy during the second Pahlavi period and the Islamic Republic and compares them with each other. How rational structures and how policymakers understand national interests and foreign policy priorities affect their decisions. By modifying and especially combining two theories of multiple discovery and theory of cognitive calculation to explain the decision-making patterns of Iran's foreign policy, the author presents a rational cognitive analytical framework that can be used to gain an understanding of the patterns of foreign policy decision-making in both the second Pahlavi period and the Islamic Republic. In this book, the author tried to answer the question of how and why a decision is made in the field of Iran's foreign policy. In this way, he has used theoretical and historical tools that can be of interest to political science scholars and those interested in the political history of Iran. In the theoretical aspect, three rational and cognitive theories and multiple explorations have been tested to examine the decision-making process in Iran's foreign policy, and by specifying their institutions in explaining the decision-making process in Iran's foreign policy, he has presented rational cognitive theory as the theoretical framework of the book. In examining the process of these decisions, in addition to using reliable sources, the latest sources released in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and interviews with decision-makers who were present in the decision-making text of Iran's foreign policy during the Pahlavi period and the Islamic Republic have been used a lot. The passage of 34 years since the Islamic revolution has allowed me to review the decisions made during the Pahlavi period more impartially.