Lucille Beck 
Iranian Foreign Policy [PDF ebook] 
Context, Regional Analyses and U.S. Interests

Iran’s foreign policy is the product of many, and sometimes competing, factors: the ideology of Iran’s Islamic revolution; Iranian leadership’s perception of threats to the regime and to the country; long-standing Iranian national interests; and the interaction of the Iranian regime’s various factions and constituencies. This book begins with an examination of Iran’s policy motivators and instruments of Iran’s foreign policy before moving on to deeper analyses of Iranian foreign policy as a whole and by region.