Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs

Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs

Iran's Multilateral Parliamentary Diplomacy: Institutional Engagement and Neighborhood Policy

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Gholamreza Khademi
PhD in International Relations, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/irfa.2025.503084.1274
Abstract
In the context of efficient governance, all the pillars of any political system in the 21st century use their capacities to secure and guarantee national interests as facilitators and complements of the state, whereas in the past this was the sole responsibility of the states. The role of parliaments in this field, which is referred to as parliamentary diplomacy, falls within the aforementioned framework. In this regard, the of the Islamic Parliament of Iran, as an active parliament in the field of multilateral parliamentary diplomacy, has participated in the establishment of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly and the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC). In addition, by constantly attending the meetings of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, it has emphasized its importance in international relations. Therefore, in the present article, using documents and library resources by reading texts in an exploratory method in response to the question of what achievements the Islamic Parliament of Iran has made in the framework of parliamentary diplomacy, This hypothesis is examined based on the rational choice institutionalism, Although the Islamic Parliament of Iran has turned to multilateral parliamentarism in recent years, efforts to strengthen it as a complementary and facilitating diplomacy through cooperation with the parliaments of neighboring countries are a constructive step.
Keywords
Islamic Parliament of Iran
Multilateral Parliamentary Diplomacy
Neighborhood Policy
Parliamentary Assembly
Regional Cooperation

Subjects

Article Title Persian

دیپلماسی چندجانبه پارلمانی جمهوری اسلامی ایران با تأکید بر سیاست همسایگی

Author Persian

غلامرضا خادمی
دکتری روابط بین الملل، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران
Abstract Persian

در چارچوب حکمرانی کارآمد، همه ارکان یک نظام سیاسی در قرن بیست و یکم از ظرفیت‌های خود برای تأمین و تضمین منافع ملی بهره می‌برند و در نقش تسهیل‌گر و مکمل دولت عمل می‌کنند؛ در حالی‌که در گذشته این وظیفه تنها بر عهده دولت‌ها بود. نقش پارلمان‌ها در این زمینه که از آن با عنوان «دیپلماسی پارلمانی» یاد می‌شود، در همین چارچوب قابل بررسی است.
در این راستا، مجلس شورای اسلامی ایران به عنوان یک پارلمان فعال در عرصه دیپلماسی پارلمانی چندجانبه، در تأسیس مجمع مجالس آسیایی و اتحادیه بین‌المجالس کشورهای عضو سازمان همکاری اسلامی (PUIC) مشارکت داشته است. همچنین با حضور مستمر در جلسات اتحادیه بین‌المجالس (IPU)، بر اهمیت خود در روابط بین‌الملل تأکید کرده است.
بر این اساس، مقاله حاضر با استفاده از اسناد و منابع کتابخانه‌ای و با مطالعه متون به شیوه اکتشافی، به این پرسش می‌پردازد که مجلس شورای اسلامی ایران در چارچوب دیپلماسی پارلمانی چه دستاوردهایی داشته است. این فرضیه در چارچوب نظریه نهادگرایی انتخاب عقلانی مورد بررسی قرار می‌گیرد که اگرچه مجلس شورای اسلامی در سال‌های اخیر به پارلمان‌گرایی چندجانبه روی آورده، اما تلاش برای تقویت آن به عنوان دیپلماسی مکمل و تسهیل‌گر از طریق همکاری با پارلمان‌های کشورهای همسایه، گامی سازنده تلقی می‌شود.

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Iranian Review of Foreign Affairs
Volume 15, Issue 2 - Serial Number 40
December 2024
Pages 461-476

  • Receive Date 31 August 2024
  • Revise Date 02 October 2024
  • Accept Date 10 November 2024