International Relations
Abdul Majid Seifi; hossein delavar
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As the United States expands its attention to the East in an effort to contain China,Beijing deepens its policy of diversifying its relations in order to reduce the negative effects of the United States'focus on East Asia.Part of this diversification has been leaning towards the strategy of occidentalism ...
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As the United States expands its attention to the East in an effort to contain China,Beijing deepens its policy of diversifying its relations in order to reduce the negative effects of the United States'focus on East Asia.Part of this diversification has been leaning towards the strategy of occidentalism or focusing on West Asia.Among the countries of West Asia,the expansion of China's relations with Saudi Arabia is a good example of China's occidentalism strategy due to its important role in the energy market and its influence on a wide range of Islamic and Arab states.In this regard, the main question of this research is what is the position of occidentalism in China's Strategic behavior?How is the position of Saudi Arabia defined in this occidentalism strategy?The findings of the research show that due The state of power distribution in the international system and the creation of new opportunities in the areas of need for energy resources,Countering the expansion of US influence, and initiatives such as the New Silk Road,the position of occidentalism in China's Strategic behavior has been strengthened and Saudi Arabia has a key position in this strategy.The article is done using historical research method with descriptive-analytical approach and explanatory method
Mohammad Aryanmanesh; Ahmad Javanshiri; Mohsen Modirshanechi
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The present research was performed to evaluate the Iran-US relationships in 2029 from the Iranian Professors’ point of view. Investigations were perfumed via future studies in two parts: The first part is based on library studies, and the second part is questionnaire-based field surveys, with the ...
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The present research was performed to evaluate the Iran-US relationships in 2029 from the Iranian Professors’ point of view. Investigations were perfumed via future studies in two parts: The first part is based on library studies, and the second part is questionnaire-based field surveys, with the acquired data analyzed using MicMac and Scenario Wizard software tools. Based on the results of the analysis in the MicMac software, a total of 20 driver forces for the Iran-US relationships were identified. Considering the driver forces as descriptors of the Iran-US relationships, the most significant driver forces were found to be the government institutions context followed by the relationship-interfering countries, the role of the two countries’ leaders, future of the international system, think tanks, lobbies and pressure groups, nuclear capabilities and missile program of Iran, the role of geography, and historical records of the relationships between the two countries. Based on the outputs of the Scenario Wizard software, five scenarios were identified, including highly favorable, favorable, moderate, unfavorable, and highly unfavorable, with the development of the Iran-US relationships under the moderate scenario being highly probable.
Asgar Safari
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Since 1945, western countries and specially the United States have tried to secure their international interests by establishing international economic institutions, regional security organizations and dissemination of liberal political norms, Known as international liberal order. But in recent years ...
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Since 1945, western countries and specially the United States have tried to secure their international interests by establishing international economic institutions, regional security organizations and dissemination of liberal political norms, Known as international liberal order. But in recent years this order has been challenged by some newly emerged powers such as China. Inabilities in administration of some international affairs such as international order, global economy and terrorism have weakened west position more. This fact has risen an important question: what would be the future of international liberal order and whether we should expect emerge of a new international order as a replacement for liberal order in the future? With the aim of investigating statues of liberal international order in current situation and in the shadow of newly international emerged powers such as China, the article have put two questions forward: what is the view point of China to the current international liberal order and how the county efforts in regional institutional building specially in Central Asia could be analyzed? The finding of the research reveals that Chain is just interested to revise the current order and the country institution building effort is a part of its plan for this revision.
mitra Rah nejat; hassan kabiri
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Azerbaijan, one of south Caucasus countries, is very important for Iran because of its geopolitics and geo-economics’ features. In spite of existence convergence background between both countries, we witness divergence between them. Main question: During 2000-2016 which factors impact on divergence ...
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Azerbaijan, one of south Caucasus countries, is very important for Iran because of its geopolitics and geo-economics’ features. In spite of existence convergence background between both countries, we witness divergence between them. Main question: During 2000-2016 which factors impact on divergence between Iran and Azerbaijan? Main Hypothesis: It seems economy-security-military factors are main factors that impact on divergence between two countries that regional and Trans-regional actors use them as influence tools for restriction of Iran’s influence scope in the region and threat of Iran. This article use analytical – description methods base on new data so that propose opportunities for foreign policy of Iran.
jalil bayat; Mohsen Eslami
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On the 17th December 2014, the resumption of relations between US and Cuba became the most important political news during the past few decades in the world. Yet, some analysts say the detente model of US and Cuba is applicable to Iran-US relations. Similarities between Iran and Cuba such as the revolutionary ...
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On the 17th December 2014, the resumption of relations between US and Cuba became the most important political news during the past few decades in the world. Yet, some analysts say the detente model of US and Cuba is applicable to Iran-US relations. Similarities between Iran and Cuba such as the revolutionary governments, Anti-Americanism, being sanctioned by the US and many other similarities reinforces this proposition. Therefore, the present study has examined this possibility with the following question: Is it possible to use the détente model US - Cuba on US-Iran relations? It was found that due to some differences between Iran and Cuba at the systemic level, including the different regional pressures and at the unit level, such as different positions of the two countries in the international system, different perceptions of America among the leaders of the two countries, different relationship of the communities of the two countries with that’s of the US make is impossible to compare. Hence, it is not applicable to use Cuba-US detente model to Iran-US relations. The approach of this study is descriptive-analytical, the method is comparative and Data are collected through the library-based research method.
Mahdi Hedayati Shahidani; Roman Vladimirovich Pinkovtsev
Volume 4, Issue 12 , July 2015, , Pages 61-85
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The natures of international phenomena have shown that great powers, far beyond different kinds of rivalries, tend to stabilize equation of power in the international environment. With outbreak of the Syrian crisis, Signs of this type of relationship has been observed between Russia and the United States ...
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The natures of international phenomena have shown that great powers, far beyond different kinds of rivalries, tend to stabilize equation of power in the international environment. With outbreak of the Syrian crisis, Signs of this type of relationship has been observed between Russia and the United States since 2011. The main features of these relations include concepts such as Encouragement, Containment, Withdraw, and Resolution Building. In this paper, we review the functions of each of these concepts trough the Modelski crisis management model. The question of the paper highlights the main strategy of the two major powers, Russia and the United States, towards the Syrian crisis. Results reveal that the two consider mutual interaction and international interests in crisis management measures. Hence, they approaching the pattern of competition and cooperation, remaining from the Cold War.
Hossein salimi; Leila Rahmati poor
Volume 3, Issue 11 , April 2015, , Pages 129-160
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United States as the sole remaining superpower after World War II and the Cold War era, has always tried establishing its hegemony in the world and forcing others into submission and acceptance of its order. Thus, economic development and control of the world energy resources, especially the resources ...
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United States as the sole remaining superpower after World War II and the Cold War era, has always tried establishing its hegemony in the world and forcing others into submission and acceptance of its order. Thus, economic development and control of the world energy resources, especially the resources in the Persian Gulf region is needed for establishing and maintaining its hegemony in the world as well. Hence, insecurity in the region has challenged the hegemony of the U.S. For decades the country's strategy is focused on reducing dependence on energy imports. China is a great power that is trying to improve its position in the global arena. In this way the path chosen by the Chines leaders is economic growth, which is highly depended on the country's energy resources especially the Persian Gulf. So what is considered important to China is energy supply security; but the different strategies of the two countries and its impacts on the Persian Gulf remains a question; the question that this paper will try to answer.
Elahe Kolaeei; Reza Niknam
Volume 3, Issue 11 , April 2015, , Pages 161-182
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Terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, tackled security system of the U.S. and entered the country into long term and costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Then global financial crises in 2008, led U.S. into an unprecedented stagnation. U.S. critical economy was placed in more vulnerable position than ...
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Terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, tackled security system of the U.S. and entered the country into long term and costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Then global financial crises in 2008, led U.S. into an unprecedented stagnation. U.S. critical economy was placed in more vulnerable position than before. On the other hand China's place in the global economy was promoted and trans-regional influence of the country was developed in these years. This article tries to answer the question that what impact has the china's power seeking in international political economy on the hegemony of the United States, by applying the theory of power displacement and with focus on Power transitions theories. The authors conclude that china's growing power intensified the decline of financial hegemony of United States, but has no significant effect on its political and security power and the United States’ weakness is much related to its macroeconomics.
Mohammad Bagher Khoramshad
Volume 2, Issue 6 , September 2014, , Pages 9-37
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With a comparative approach, this paper tries to understand the passageof Political Science evolution in the American and the French societiesand pursues the answer to the questions of: how this evolution occurredin these societies and what are the mutual impacts of these procedures.Studies reveal the ...
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With a comparative approach, this paper tries to understand the passageof Political Science evolution in the American and the French societiesand pursues the answer to the questions of: how this evolution occurredin these societies and what are the mutual impacts of these procedures.Studies reveal the fact that, despite the initial impacts of the Europeanschool in Humanities and Social Science in 18 and 19 centuries, USschool turned the page and due to the principles and evolved regulationsbecame the cradle of the new Political Science and affected the wholeworld including Europe and France. American evolution of PoliticalScience formed new Political Sociology while France has been tangled indominance of Law on political analysis for a long time.
Abuzar Gohari Moqaddam
Volume 2, Issue 6 , September 2014, , Pages 117-141
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The Islamic awaking developments in the Middle East since 2011 havechanged the regional order in many different ways and influencedregional and trans- regional actors. In this situation, the United Stateswhich has defined many interest in the region, has been influenced morethan the other actors. This ...
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The Islamic awaking developments in the Middle East since 2011 havechanged the regional order in many different ways and influencedregional and trans- regional actors. In this situation, the United Stateswhich has defined many interest in the region, has been influenced morethan the other actors. This article describes the US interests in the MiddleEast and examines the Islamic awakening impacts on these interests. Theresults of this research prove that the Unites States is going to controland mange Islamic awakening impacts in the region through manydifferent ways including: direct military intervention, changing the rulingelites in some states, forcing internal reform in some countries, avoidingreliance on one ally in the region, promoting secular Islamic state,helping civil society of some countries, promoting human rights discourseand solving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process
