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

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" Exploiting Instability: Decoding the Nexus of Iranian Hyperactivity and Turkish Hezbollah "
Herdem, Ismet Silay, Kemal

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1057022
Doc. No	:	TL56139
Main Entry	:	Herdem, Ismet
Title & Author	:	Exploiting Instability: Decoding the Nexus of Iranian Hyperactivity and Turkish Hezbollah\ Herdem, IsmetSilay, Kemal
College	:	Indiana University
Date	:	2020
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2020
Note	:	81 p.
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	International relations
	:	Middle Eastern studies
	:	Political science
Added Entry	:	Silay, Kemal
Added Entry	:	Indiana University