Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment

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Autor(a) principal: Eslami, Mohammad
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Vieira, Alena
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/83907
Resumo: Iran's January 2020 missile attacks on US military bases in Iraq following the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Qasem Soleimani correspond to a stark change of Iran's approach. Iran has namely abstained from using its ballistic missile program (BMP), which was only used twice after the 1980–88 Iran–Iraq War: in 2017 and 2018, in both instances in retaliation against ISIS attacks. The article explores the change in Iran's employment of its BMP from a strategic culture perspective while paying special attention to the principles of Shi'a Islam, which form a particular discursive habitat in which Iran's strategic actions are framed and rationalized. Iran's approach to the BMP is thus inseparable from qisas (retaliation), while obeying the overarching principle of maslahat; but also characterized by the varying importance of the the principles zarare aghall, ezterar and nafye sabil. We conclude that a perspective focusing on religious principles can contribute to our understanding of strategic cultural change, in what concerns its possible orientation, range and limits.
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spelling Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deploymentIranBallistic missileIRGCQasem SoleimaniShia-IslamStrategic CultureCiências Sociais::Ciências PolíticasSocial SciencesIran's January 2020 missile attacks on US military bases in Iraq following the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Qasem Soleimani correspond to a stark change of Iran's approach. Iran has namely abstained from using its ballistic missile program (BMP), which was only used twice after the 1980–88 Iran–Iraq War: in 2017 and 2018, in both instances in retaliation against ISIS attacks. The article explores the change in Iran's employment of its BMP from a strategic culture perspective while paying special attention to the principles of Shi'a Islam, which form a particular discursive habitat in which Iran's strategic actions are framed and rationalized. Iran's approach to the BMP is thus inseparable from qisas (retaliation), while obeying the overarching principle of maslahat; but also characterized by the varying importance of the the principles zarare aghall, ezterar and nafye sabil. We conclude that a perspective focusing on religious principles can contribute to our understanding of strategic cultural change, in what concerns its possible orientation, range and limits.The authors would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers and the editors of International Affairs for their very constructive comments. This study was conducted at the Research Center in Political Science (UID/CPO/0758/2020), University of Minho/University of Evora, and supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science through national funds.Oxford University PressUniversidade do MinhoEslami, MohammadVieira, Alena20222022-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/83907engEslami, M., & Vysotskaya Guedes Vieira, A. (2022, March). Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment. International Affairs. Oxford University Press (OUP). http://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab2340020-585010.1093/ia/iiab234info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:47:16Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/83907Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:45:22.643451Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment
title Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment
spellingShingle Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment
Eslami, Mohammad
Iran
Ballistic missile
IRGC
Qasem Soleimani
Shia-Islam
Strategic Culture
Ciências Sociais::Ciências Políticas
Social Sciences
title_short Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment
title_full Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment
title_fullStr Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment
title_full_unstemmed Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment
title_sort Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment
author Eslami, Mohammad
author_facet Eslami, Mohammad
Vieira, Alena
author_role author
author2 Vieira, Alena
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Eslami, Mohammad
Vieira, Alena
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Iran
Ballistic missile
IRGC
Qasem Soleimani
Shia-Islam
Strategic Culture
Ciências Sociais::Ciências Políticas
Social Sciences
topic Iran
Ballistic missile
IRGC
Qasem Soleimani
Shia-Islam
Strategic Culture
Ciências Sociais::Ciências Políticas
Social Sciences
description Iran's January 2020 missile attacks on US military bases in Iraq following the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Qasem Soleimani correspond to a stark change of Iran's approach. Iran has namely abstained from using its ballistic missile program (BMP), which was only used twice after the 1980–88 Iran–Iraq War: in 2017 and 2018, in both instances in retaliation against ISIS attacks. The article explores the change in Iran's employment of its BMP from a strategic culture perspective while paying special attention to the principles of Shi'a Islam, which form a particular discursive habitat in which Iran's strategic actions are framed and rationalized. Iran's approach to the BMP is thus inseparable from qisas (retaliation), while obeying the overarching principle of maslahat; but also characterized by the varying importance of the the principles zarare aghall, ezterar and nafye sabil. We conclude that a perspective focusing on religious principles can contribute to our understanding of strategic cultural change, in what concerns its possible orientation, range and limits.
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