The Identity and Foreign Policy of Iran and Egypt towards Israel

On the one hand, the Islamic Revolution in Iran and on the other hand, the assumption of power by Anwar Sadat in 1971, the two state's foreign policy undergone major transformation towards Israel. Seemingly, the two state's identity changed after the Islamic revolution in Iran and Anwar Sadat's presidency. This research seeks to scrutinize "How has the Iranian and Egyptian foreign policy been influenced by the change in their government's identity in different time periods?"
In response, this paper based on the constructivism assumptions claims that the changes in the internal norms affecting the formation of the identity of different governments of Iran and Egypt explains the shifts in these two countrie's foreign policy towards Israel in different periods. In fact, the changes in the domestic norms shaping the identity of the Iranian governments after the Islamic Revolution and Egypt after Jamal Abdel Nasser led to a significant change in their foreign policy towards Israel. In the first section, the assumptions of constructivism in international relations will be briefly explained. The second section is devoted to the role of constructivism in the study of foreign policy. In the third and fourth sections I will examine the shifts in Iran's foreign policy after the Islamic Revolution and changes in the Egyptian foreign policy towards Israel under Jamal Abdel Nasser presidency.