National Identity Analysis of Saudi Arabia in Iran’s Nuclear Agreement

Nizzah Amalia Subchan, Siti Rokhmawati Susanto

2018

Abstract

Each country in the international system must have an identity that shapes its behavior. Saudi Arabia’s negative response to the signing of Iran's nuclear deal in 2015 is seen as having a strong association with Saudi Arabia’s national identity. This is because the government of Saudi Arabia is a Salafi country and follows Sunni Islam. One of their beliefs is that any religion that does not fit their ideology becomes a threat. This is what then underlies Saudi Arabia’s hatred towards Shi’ite groups. Sectarianism was then formed in Saudi Arabia's foreign policy especially to Iran. In addition, Saudi Arabia uses legitimacy as a custodian of the two Islamic holy sites to become a leader of the Islamic world. So the implementation of Iran’s nuclear deal is supposed to have strengthened its position as a Shiite axis in the Middle East and intensified Saudi Arabia's intention to dismantle the agreement. Therefore, in this paper the author seeks to analyze the extent of the influence of identity through Anne Clunan’s aspirational constructisim and explain how the identity is formed and how to incorporate it in foreign policy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Subchan N. and Susanto S. (2018). National Identity Analysis of Saudi Arabia in Iran’s Nuclear Agreement. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 543-549. DOI: 10.5220/0010280000002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Nizzah Amalia Subchan and Siti Rokhmawati Susanto},
title={National Identity Analysis of Saudi Arabia in Iran’s Nuclear Agreement},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={543-549},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010280000002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - National Identity Analysis of Saudi Arabia in Iran’s Nuclear Agreement
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - Subchan N.
AU - Susanto S.
PY - 2018
SP - 543
EP - 549
DO - 10.5220/0010280000002309