ali adami; nazanin nazifi; aref bijan
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If the past to the present, the Middle East can be defined in one word, that word is "instability." Following the current challenges, the opening of relations between the two countries in the Middle East is more significant than other regional alliances: "Israel and Saudi Arabia". The main question is: ...
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If the past to the present, the Middle East can be defined in one word, that word is "instability." Following the current challenges, the opening of relations between the two countries in the Middle East is more significant than other regional alliances: "Israel and Saudi Arabia". The main question is: to what extent Israel and Saudi Arabia have been able to succeed in balancing against Iran? it's assumed that; The factors that keep these two governments together are: concern over Iran's nuclear deal, It also reduced the presence and role of the United States in the region, Reduce the US presence and role in the region, And crises caused by extremism and the civil war in Syria. However, given the challenges of regional and trans-regional actors, the proximity of two governments is not a step towards consolidating a balanced alliance to isolate and confront Iran. Despite the commonalities and causative factors in the normalization of relations between the two countries more than before, According to Randall Schwedler's “Under balancing" theory can be said: The two countries have not been able to form a strong alliance especially against Iran as their common enemy.
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Salafi thoughts and the phenomenon of violent extremism are frequent subjects in political and international studies. A comprehensive study in the field of international relations that based on the interaction between structure and agency, can explain the issue. The main objective ...
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Salafi thoughts and the phenomenon of violent extremism are frequent subjects in political and international studies. A comprehensive study in the field of international relations that based on the interaction between structure and agency, can explain the issue. The main objective of this paper is to study the Salafi- Extremist Islam. Salafist- Extremist groups tend to perform violent struggle to gain power and overthrow governments in order to restore the Islamic caliphate. The main question of this article is that: how International System has affected Salafi- Extremist Islam, during the post-cold war era? Theoretical framework of this paper is Constructivism. Research method in qualitative content analysis. In this regard, we tried to analyze this extremist movement and show how the international system affected these groups.
Ali Adami; Elham keshavarz
Volume 5, Issue 16 , June 2016, , Pages 121-141
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Until the early twentieth century, international relations affected issues such as war and peace, anarchy of the international system, foreign policy and military power. In such a condition, the prominent role of the cultural power of governments was neglected aspect of political studies. Hence, in recent ...
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Until the early twentieth century, international relations affected issues such as war and peace, anarchy of the international system, foreign policy and military power. In such a condition, the prominent role of the cultural power of governments was neglected aspect of political studies. Hence, in recent decades with the emergence of new theories of international relations and the process of globalization, the issue of international politics became acute, and this has changed the nature of hard power. On the other hand, in order to have greater influence in global politics, the governments have tended to regional cooperation .In this case, the new regionalism caused changes in the nature of the international system
Ali Adami; Ehsan Movahedian; Reza Niknam
Volume 2, Issue 5 , June 2013, , Pages 131-161
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In recent years, Iran- US Challenge has undergone major developmentsincluding sanction against the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iranwhich means rapture of Iranian transactions with the world. According to US.officials these sanctions targeted Iranian financial capacities to ensure slowernuclear ...
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In recent years, Iran- US Challenge has undergone major developmentsincluding sanction against the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iranwhich means rapture of Iranian transactions with the world. According to US.officials these sanctions targeted Iranian financial capacities to ensure slowernuclear activities and changes in the behavior of the Iranian government. SinceIslamic Republic nuclear program and its behavior and interaction with the Westare managed under competent leadership of the Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei,assessment of his Attitude will guide us to find out the impact of the sanctionson Islamic Republic stances. Thus, this article tries to answer the followingquestion: Did the sanction against Iranian centeral Bank Change the Supremeleader anti-western stances? In order to do so, contents of leader’s 24 publicspeeches analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively before and after sanction.Authors conclude that Supreme leader anti-western stances strengthen afterIranian Central Bank sanction
