Editorial Note Editorial

As we continue to throw the net far and wide to invite and solicit contributions for our future issues – which can be made in three forms; full-length articles, book reviews, and short analytical essays – we will have to explore, at a more institutional level, practical ways of improving the outreach. The issue has managed to bring together seven articles, a book review and a short analytical note, written by a good mix of Iranian diplomats and academics and also two Western analysts. In the second article, an Iranian academic explores the rationale for the recent turn to Latin American countries in Iranian foreign policy. In the third article, an American analyst discusses the concept of "mutual respect" in Barack Obama’s personal outlook, especially in so far as it relates to his Iran foreign policy.