러시아와 이란의 전략적 제휴?: 시리아 내전 개입의 의도를 중심으로

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Most of the studies on the closer partnership between Russia and Iran in Syrian civil war have argued that it is “a temporary partnership or a cooperation of necessity” and “limited and situational.” Studies standing on the opposite side have criticized that the prevailing interpretations have ignored the two countries’ shared geopolitical interest in the Middle East including Syrian affairs, a conservative position on modern international norms, and complementary economic ties between themselves. On the analyses of Moscow’s and Tehran’s intentions in military intervention in Syrian civil war, this paper argues that differently from the previous experiences, Russia-Iran relations are unlikely to worsen in line with Moscow’s improvement or intention of improvement in relations with the West, and expects the strategic alignment of Russia and Iran is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. The main driving forces are that two nations’ geo-strategic calculations in global and regional politics and particularly their geopolitical interest on al-Assad’s regime in Syria have been similar, and they have mostly shared values(authoritarianism and the conservative perspective on the main interstate norms) and non-Western identity.

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