Hegemony and resistance around the Iranian nuclear programme : analysing Chinese, Russian, and Turkish foreign policies / Moritz Pieper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Security discourse on Iran: the power to construct international relations; 1 Analysing international norm dynamics; 2 Whose hegemony?; 3 Discourse and behaviour between doublespeak and 'compliance': understanding Chinese, Russian and Turkish Iran policies; 4 Methods, case selection and data analysis; 2 Turkish foreign policy towards the Iranian nuclear programme 1 'Strategic depth' and the reproach of nuclear double standards: discursive divergence from US policies after 20032 Turkey as a facilitator in the Iranian nuclear dossier; 3 Between 'gold-for-gas' and sanctions waivers: Turkey's balancing act regarding unilateral Iran sanctions; 4 Turkey's Iran policy between ideology, geostrategy and alliance management; 5 Conclusion; 3 Russian foreign policy towards the Iranian nuclear programme; 1 Bushehr as burden and leverage: Russian reactions to the 2002 nuclear revelations; 2 Russia's position on Iran sanctions 3 Russia in the Iranian nuclear talks: the notion of 'constructive mediation' and the role of technical intermediary4 The impact of the Ukraine crisis on Russian Iran policies; 5 Derzhavnichestvo in practice: Russia between status quo politics and resistance in the JCPOA implementation; 6 Conclusion; 4 Chinese foreign policy towards the Iranian nuclear programme; 1 'Win-win' and Peaceful Co-existence: Chinese discourse in Iran's nuclear file; 2 China's position on Iran sanctions; 3 Chinese-Iranian economic relations and the impact of the JCPOA 4 Chinese Iran diplomacy between triangulation and resistance5 Conclusion; 5 Chinese, Russian and Turkish policies in the Iranian nuclear dossier; 1 Contesting hegemony: normative opposition to extra-UN instruments; 2 Material disagreements with Iran sanctions regimes: barter, circumvention and sanctions compliance; 3 The de-Westernisation of Iran discourses; 4 'Compliance' with 'international norms' or with hegemonic structures?; 5 Contesting hegemony and moving into a post-American world; 6 Conclusion; 6 Conclusion: the 'Iran Question' and dissent in world order 1 Synthesis and concluding reflections2 Areas for further research; Index.

This book is the first to provide comprehensive and comparative analyses to conceptualise the interaction between {u2018}hegemonic structures{u2019} and those actors resisting them using the Iranian nuclear case as an illustration. It analyses the foreign policies of China, Russia and Turkey towards the Iranian nuclear programme and thereby answers the question to what extent these policies are indicative of a security culture that resists hegemony. Based on 70 elite interviews with experts and decision-makers closely involved with the Iranian nuclear file, it analyses resistance to hegemony across its ideational, material and institutional framework conditions. The cases examined show how {u2018}compliance{u2019} on the part of China, Russia and Turkey with parts of US approaches to the Iranian nuclear conflict has been selective, and how US policy preferences in the Iran dossier have been resisted on other occasions. As such, the Iran nuclear case serves as an illustration to shed light on the contemporaneous interaction of the forces of consent and coercion in international politics.