عنوان

Exploiting Instability: Decoding the Nexus of Iranian Hyperactivity and Turkish Hezbollah

Number

TL56139

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Exploiting Instability: Decoding the Nexus of Iranian Hyperactivity and Turkish Hezbollah

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Herdem, Ismet

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Silay, Kemal

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Indiana University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

Text of Note

81 p.

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Body granting the degree

Indiana University

Text preceding or following the note

2020

Text of Note

This research is centrally concerned with the role of the Islamic Republic of Iran's state-sponsored terrorism and proxy actions in Turkey. This review focused on Iran's foreign policies and its pragmatic relations with the Sunni-based non-state actor, Turkish Hezbollah. This thesis argues that the Islamic Republic exploits instability and that from Tehran's perspective, conflicts and civil wars need to be exploited for Iran to benefit. Iran's primary strategy in exploiting these security vacuums has been to install terrorist groups that would further sow instability in vulnerable regions and thus perpetuate a cycle of chaos that Tehran can exploit. The main focus of this research is (1) to address the significant factors that facilitated Iran's state-sponsored terrorism in Turkey (2) to trace radical Islamism and Turkish Hezbollah's transformation since their genesis and (3) to juxtapose Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' incentives and their associated consequences in Middle Eastern affairs.

Subject Term

International relations

Subject Term

Middle Eastern studies

Subject Term

Political science

Herdem, Ismet

Silay, Kemal

Indiana University

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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