Iran and the New International Order in the Light of the Triple Strategies of Shaping, Opposing, and Complying

The international order in transition is not merely one of challenges or opportunities for countries at different levels of power. Depending on the leadership intelligence of a country and its decision-makers in the smart formulation of macro strategies, or its neglect, this can be a period of opportunities for that country to rise or fall on the global stage. The present paper aims to recognize the different roles of state players in the changing international order. By conceptualizing and the conceptual clarification of the international order, the authors will endeavor to classify state players into the three categories of shapers, opposers, and compliers of the order. The paper claims that a government at any level of power can adopt the required strategies in one or more dimensions of the transitioning order to play a constructive role. Evidently, in an ever-changing world of dynamic, multilevel governance, accepting any role imposes internal and structural requirements on any one country. Meanwhile, by accepting any of the abovementioned situations in the changing international order, the IR of Iran must undertake to formulate and implement its strategies. By relying on the formulation of the international order in transition from the viewpoint of Ayatollah Khamenei as the central decision-maker in Iran today, and the development of a conceptual framework for the transition period, the present paper has answered the basic question of how the key model of Iran’s macro requirements in choosing a constructive role in the international order and bespoke strategy with its role in the three categories of “basic component of role-playing”, “prerequisites for effectiveness”, and “cognitive requirements” can be explained.This is a theoretical and applied research. It has benefited from the description, elucidation, and logical analysis of library resources and theoretical and empirical analysis to follow the research topic. Notes were taken on library resources with a critical approach to serve the design of a new concept for the requirements of the IR of Iran.