His article sheds light on the foreign policies of China, Russia, and Turkey towards the controversial Iranian nuclear program and analyzes to what extent their policies are indicative of a security culture that resists hegemony. While advocating a nonhegemonic security culture discursively, it is argued, China, Russia, and Turkey still partially adhere to hegemonic power structures on a behavioral level. It is shown how these states’ policies are the outcome of a balancing act between resistance to hegemony and hegemonic accommodation.
http://tongil.snu.ac.kr/ajp_pdf/201405/02_Moritz%20Pieper_5th.pdf