روابط خارجي ايران و كره‌جنوبي

Foreign Relations between Iran and South Korea

ايران سومين بازار بزرگ محصولات كره‌اي در خاورميانه است كه اهميت فراواني در تامين انرژي اين كشور دارد. با وجود روابط تجاري نسبتا طولاني، هر دو كشور سياست خارجي متقابل خود را براساس جدايي سياست از اقتصاد اتخاذ كرده‌اند. بنابراين پرسش اصلي اين پژوهش آن است كه مهمترين عناصر موثر در رويكرد اين دو كشور در قبال يكديگر چيست؟ در اين مقاله با روش تحقيق مقايسه ـ تحليل، مسايل و عوامل مهمي كه در الگوي سياست خارجي دو كشور تاثيرگذار و بكار گرفته شده‌اند، مورد بررسي قرارمي‌گيرد. محيط‌هاي سياسي، اقتصادي و ژيوپليتيكي را با هدف واكاوي چرايي و چگونگي اتخاذ و اجراي سياست‌هاي خارجي دو كشور ارايه مي‌نمايد. نتايج حاصل از اين تحقيق نشان‌دهنده وجود عوامل موثر متعددي در تصميم‌گيري‌ها و معادلات سياست خارجي اين دو كشور همچون حضور و نفوذ امريكا در شرق آسيا، تقابلات با كره‌شمالي، افزايش تعاملات چين با ايران از لحاظ سياسي و اقتصادي، سياست خارجي ايران پس از انقلاب اسلامي و روابط كره‌جنوبي با كشورهاي عربي است.

Iran is South Korea’s third biggest export market in the Middle East. Iran is of great importance in the field of trade, energy, and economy for South Korea as a trading partner. Despite the importance of having good economic relations with South Korea for Iran, the two countries have kept politics and economy separate from each other. My research question is what accounts for this separation in the two countries’ foreign policy. Political, economic, and geopolitical factors are carefully examined so as to study how and why adoption of foreign policy is formed. The goal of the paper is to see how the environmental factors including politics, economy, and geopolitics contribute to the formation of South Korea and Iran’s foreign policies towards each other. In particular, this study of foreign policy investigates any political/economic variables that affect foreign policy. The method of comparison is applied in order to identify factors uncovering some pattern of foreign policy. South Korea and Iran are compared here in an attempt to explore linkages between various factors (i.e. political, geopolitical, and economic) and how they adopt their respective foreign policy. The finding is that several factors affect foreign policy in these two countries. These include the US presence in East Asia, confrontation with North Korea, China’s increasing influence and interactions with Iran both politically and economically, Iran’s foreign policy after 1979 Islamic revolution, and South Korea’s relations with Arab countries.