Political Economy of Foreign Policy of Oil-Based Governments (with Emphasis on Robert Cox Theory)

Document Type : Research

Authors

1 Ph.D Candidate in International Relations, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Economic and Political science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Economic and Political science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Considering the evolution of the global political economy system, the concise understanding of the category Foreign policy of countries with oil-based economic systems is an important axis of the dual system. Despite numerous studies that have been conducted to understand the formation of foreign policy in this countries, it is very difficult to explain the foreign policy of these countries due to the multitude of effective factors. But it seems that Cox's views provide us with a suitable platform for understanding how foreign policy is formed in these countries. The present study raises the key question of what effect does the oil-based production system have on the foreign policy of oil-based governments? According to Cox’s opinions, it seems that the structure of oil-based production has a basic effect on the formation of foreign policy in these countries by establishing social relations of production and government configuration; In other words, the action of foreign policy in these countries is in the continuation of social relations of production and in order to reproduce the monopoly of oil exploitation. In this way, the purpose of this study is to investigate and understand the relationship between the oil-based production system and foreign policy. The findings of this study, emphasizing Cox's opinions and the fundamental exploratory method, show that the interests and tendencies of the dominant classes and social forces in the oil-based social relations have a basic effect on the action of foreign policy in countries with an oil-based economic system.

Keywords

Main Subjects

References

References
Basedau, M. & Lacher, W. (2006), A Paradox of Plenty? Rent Distribution and Political Stability in Oil States, GIGA Working Papers, (21), April.
Bashirieh, H. (2009), Barriers to Political Development in Iran, Tehran: Gam No Publications (In Persian).
Benli, Altunışık, M. (2014), “Rentier State Theory and the Arab Uprisings: An Appraisal”, Uluslararası İlişkiler, 11 (42), 75-91.
Bisley, N. (2004), The end of the Cold War and the causes of Soviet collapse, Palgrave mcmilan.
Budd, A. (2017), Class, States and International Relations: A critical appraisal of Robert Cox and neo-Gramscian theory, Routledge.
Burchill, S. & Devetak, R. (2014), Theories of International Relations, translated by Homeira Moshirzadeh and Roholah Talebi Arani, Tehran: Mizan Publishing (In Persian).
Chaudhry, K. A. (2011), “Economic Liberalization and the Lineages of the Rentier State”, Comparative Politics, 27 (1), 1-25.
Cox, Robert W. (1986), “Social forces, State and World Order: Beyond International Relation Theory”, In: Neorealism and its Critics, New York: Columbia University Press, 204-254.
Cox, R. W. (1987), Production, Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History, New York: Columbia University Press.
Hertog, S. (2007), “Shaping the Saudi State: Human Agency’s Shifting Role in Rentier- State Formation”, Middle East Study, (39), 539-563.
Karl, T. L. (2009), The Paradox of Plenty: Oil booms and Petro-States, translated by Jafar Khairkhahan, Tehran: Ney Publishing (In Persian).
Katouzian, H. (2020), “The significance of Economic History and the Fundamental Features of the Economic History of Iran”, International Journal of Economics and Politics, 1 (2), 27-54.
Katozian, H. (1995), Iran's Political Economy from Constitutionalism to the End of the Pahlavi Dynasty, translated by Mohammad Reza Nafisi and Kambiz Azizi, Tehran: Markaz Publishing (In Persian).
Leysens, A. (2008), The Critical Theory of Robert W. Cox Fugitive or Guru?, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN.
Mahroyan, H. (2002), “Mood of Asian Production”, Development Culture, (46), 18-24 (In Persian).
Marx, K. (2009), Pre -capitalist socio - economic formations: a collection, translated by Khosrow Parsa, Tehran: Dighar publication (In Persian).
Mitchell, J. S. & Gengler, J. J. (2019), “What Money Can’t Buy: Wealth, Inequality, and Economic Satisfaction in the Rentier State”, Political Research Quarterly, 72 (1), 75-89.
Motalebi of Masoud and Hamid Malekpour, (2019), “Rentier Economy, Government and Cultural Middle Class in the Islamic Republic of Iran”, Sepehr Siyasat Quarterly, 6 (22), 23-53 (In Persian).
Movasaghi, A. (2006), “Political Economy of Iran in the Islamic Republic”, Journal of the Faculty of Law and Political Science, (71), 311-354 (In Persian).
North, Douglass (2006), “A Conceptual Framework for the Interpretation of Written Human History”, The Political Economy of the Comprehensive Evolution, 1 (3), 92-151 (In Persian).
North, D., Wallis, J. J., Steven, Web, B. & Wingast, B. R. (2015), Politics, Economy and Development Issues in the Shadow of Violence, translated by Mirdamadi, Mohsen and Mohammad Hossein Naeimipour, Rozaneh Publications (In Persian).
Palan, R. (2007), Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories, translated by Hossein Pourahmadi and Ayub Karimi, Tehran: Mohajer Publishing (In Persian).
Pawelk, P. (1996), The Political Economy of foreign policies in the Middle East, Meeting in University of Tubingen (FRG).
Pourahmadi, H. (2002), “Political Economy of Government and World System Interaction in Foreign Policy Formulation”, Foreign Policy Quarterly, 16 (4), 1051-1082 (In Persian).
Sharabi, H. (2016), New Patriarchy, translated by Ahmad Movassaghi, Tehran: Kavir Publications (In Persian).
Sharifzadegan, M. H. & Qanuni, H. (2017), “Analysis and theoretical conceptualization of the effects of rentier state on the agency and structure of society and urban economy in Iran”, Urban Economics, Vol. 2, N. 1, Sequence 2 (In Persian).
Shekarchi, A. (2013), “Triple Generations of Rentier State Theory”, Meeting of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University, May (In Persian).
Slater, D. & Tokiss, F. (2007), Market Society: Market and Modern Social Theory, translated by Hossein Ghazian, Tehran: Ney Publishing (In Persian).
Soltani, A. (2012), “Oil and the process of nation-state building”, Politics Quarterly, 42 (2), 95-112 (In Persian).
Spohr, A. P. & André Luiz Reis da Silva (2017), “Foreign Policy’s Role in Promoting Development: The Brazilian and Turkish Cases”, Contexto Internacional, 39 (1), 157-178
Verkoren, W. & Kamphuis, B. (2013), “State Building in a Rentier State: How Development Policies Fail to Promote Democracy in Afghanistan”, International Institute of Social Studies, Development and Change, 44 (3), 501-526
Weber, M. (1988), Basic Concepts of Sociology, translated by Ahmad Sadrati, Tehran: Markaz Publishing (In Persian).
Witfogel, Karl, A. (1957), Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power, new Haven & London: Yale University Press.
Zafirovski, M. (2002), “The Social Construction of Production: an Application of Economic Sociology”, Management, 5 (2), 147-174.
Zarrinkoob, R. & Pashazanos, H. (2011), “Sassanid Political System (325-579 AD) and Max Weber's Patrimonial-Bureaucratic Theory”, Historical Research, New Volume (3), 112-99 (In Persian).
 
International Political Economy Studies
Volume 5, Issue 1
September 2022
Pages 1-40

Files

History

  • Receive Date: 19 January 2022
  • Revise Date: 24 April 2022
  • Accept Date: 07 May 2022

Share

How to cite

Statistics