Diplomacy of Alienation as a Fundamental Threat to International Security: The Case Study of Iran
Journal: Scholarship - Claremont (Claremont Colleges)
Year: 2016

The most severe security threat facing the international community relates to the policy of alienating diplomacy and its implications – the destabilizing strategies employed by states that have become misperceived as revisionist, the counterstrategies adopted by other states as a response to these radical approaches, and the potential for stability that is lost through the isolating policies. Diplomacy of alienation is deeply ingrained in systemic-level great power competition, and creates a sit