{"id":1313,"date":"2026-06-25T14:51:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:04:07","slug":"when-u-s-foreign-policy-loses-its-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/when-u-s-foreign-policy-loses-its-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"When U.S. Foreign Policy Loses Its Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By Raghu Kondori | Shahvand Think Tank, in \u201cThe Jerusalem Strategic Tribune\u201d\u00a0 <!--more--><\/h2>\n<h4>Even as the digital ink dries on a de-escalation framework, the parallel operational chain of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps remains active<\/h4>\n<p>Foreign policy is ultimately built on two foundations: power and credibility. Power allows a state to act. Credibility determines whether others believe its actions will be sustained long enough to matter. When policy becomes dominated by short-term transactions rather than strategic doctrine, trust erodes and credibility declines. The transactional trap undermines trust and creates a crisis of credibility.<\/p>\n<p>Read More on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jstribune.com\/ai-as-the-next-world-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the\u00a0Jerusalem Strategic Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Raghu Kondori | Shahvand Think Tank, in \u201cThe Jerusalem Strategic Tribune\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[283,25,245,212],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","tag-foreign-policy","tag-raghu-kondori","tag-the-jerusalem-strategic-tribune","tag-u-s"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/JST-6-25.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}