أثر متغير الهوية على السياسة الخارجية

Abstract EN

The present study aims at addressing the issue of identity and its impact on foreign policy.

It investigates the concept of identity as an independent variable and the concept of foreign policy asa dependent one in an effort to gauge the existence of correlational effect of the former on the latter.

The study is premised on the following central question: To what extent does identity affect the state's foreign policy? With other sub-questions derived for the aforementioned problematic, the researcher utilized adescriptive approach to examinethe research hypothesis of the existence of a correlation between identity and foreign policy.

The study concluded that identity does affect foreign policy in two ways; one direct and the other indirect.

Moreover, a reverse effect of foreign policy on identity was also found out.