Political Strategic Studies

Abstract Currently, a major manifestation of soft power influence in foreign policy
is soft power of the Islamic Revolution of Iran. As a political unite Islamic
republic of Iran has an identity. This identity is consisted of national,
Islamic, revolutionary, and Eastern elements which lead its behavior in
international arena.
In the light of soft power and values such as martyrdom, moralities,
justice, independence, and confrontation with west and Zionism, Iran
managed to initiate re-believing and awakening process in region and show
its soft power abilities in the Middle East. In this paper we try to study the
effects of the Iranian soft power on the Islamic awaking in Northern Africa
specially Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya

Abstract Revolutions are studied from different perspectives and levels, causes of
their occurrence, consequences, affecting forces and their reflections and so
on. The Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979 and the Egyptian revolution in
January 2011 as two major political and social changes, can be studied and
compared from different perspectives and approaches. Especially, in one of
them that is the Iranian revolution, led to the victory of the Islamic stream
and the continuation of a political system, and in the other, the Egyptian
revolution, despite initial successes of the Muslim Brotherhood, and after
taking power for a year, eventually driven out of power by a military coup
when public opposition expanded, and after the repression, the Muslim
Brotherhood social and political activities were banned and prohibited.
Now, the question is how the Islamist movement in Iran and Egypt, led to a
different results in the revolution and its subsequent events. In response to
this question, the hypothesis is that the role of leadership can be considered
as an effective factor in the movement during and after the revolution

Abstract In 2001, after the international intervention in Afghanistan and the
conclusion of Bon Agreement, international peacebuilding efforts were
initiated in order to prevent reoccurrences of internal war and to create
political, economic and social bases for durable peace in Afghanistan.
Nevertheless, 14 years after the conclusion of Bon Agreement, peacebuilding
process faces many challenges. In this regard, in this research these
questions have been answered: what are the challenges for peacebuilding
efforts in Afghanistan and how these challenges could be overcome? In
order to answer these question, the findings of the research show that flaws
within the Bon Agreement has a major role in failure of peacebuilding
efforts and in order to advance the peacebuilding process it is necessary that
international objectives and approaches be redefined. In this matter, the
challenges facing peacebuilding process in Afghanistan have been
elaborated and explained. Meanwhile, new solutions which are necessary to
overcome the challenges have been proposed

Abstract This paper tries to study the Recognition of royal identity in Ancient Iran,
using discourse analysis. The foundations of royal identity in Ancient Iran is
based on the divine order and pattern of the political system. Thus, it is
responsible for all of the affairs of the ideal king as hand of the ideal
intentions. The king of Ancient Iran is the most perfect representative of the
celestial law implementations.
This article deals with the question of the identity of the ideal king in
ancient structures in order to lead the society to Utopia. This paper
hypothesis argues that this identity is formed through signs such as:
charisma, race, justice and truth, religion and piety, dutifulness, intellect and
wisdom, strength and courage, education and teaching. The central slab, the
King as a representative of the gods on Earth have stabilized these signs

Abstract Globalization as a process or a project brings inevitable effects in the international system. One of these effects of globalization will be globalized religion. What is the globalized religion?  There are different opinions among experts in this field. There can be a core of consensus about this globalized religion which is a package of shared principles and values in universal religion. In this religious context the religion that is more complete and more comprehensive would have a greater share and this religion is Islam. Submission theology believes the process of globalization provides a space for understanding the true principles of religious beliefs which can lead to human salvation in this world and the other. The main question of this paper is: what is the impact of globalization on submission theology? The main hypothesis of this paper is that globalization provides possibilities and influences for submission theology in the area of religion to form a single and unifying discourse. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between submission theology and religious pluralism for achieving a single and unifying discourse of comprehensive religion in the process of globalization. The research method will be analytical and descriptive using library tools.

Abstract Oil is one of the main issues of concern between the KRG and the Iraqi
central government which has gained growing attention in recent years. This
issue has developed extensive dimensions during the past recent years which
led the divergence between the KRG and the central government and
deepened the existing gap increasingly. Much of the tension goes back to the
mentality and concepts on which both sides have agreed according to which
they try to act. In this research we seek to investigate the issue, which could
be called the second crisis of Iraq’s oil, to see what strategies and plans the
KRG adopts for its oil production under its own control. The hypothesis of
the study suggests that since socio-political structures of Kurdistan have
always evolved around the concept of "autonomy and independence", the
issue of oil can be used as an economic catalyst in line with these definitions.
In this study, the descriptive-qualitative method and the theory of
constructivism is applied for analysis.

Abstract The following article is orchestrated on the basis of scenario-based
processing as one of the main methods of future study. It tries to answer this
main question that “what would be the probable direction of the Salafi
jihadist groups such as Al-Nusra Front and Islamic state of Iraq and Syria
(ISSI) in the Middle East? It seems that five scenarios can be anticipated in
three categories: A) Favorable scenario: 1) the final destruction of Takfirijihadi
Islamists and democratically distribution of power under the
ceremonial leadership of Bashar al-Assad 2) suppression of takfiri groups
and ruling of the Islamic Republic, instead of the Arabic Republic of Syria
and Iraq. B) Probable scenario: 1) the elimination of Da’ash and
distribution of power between Kurds, Shiites and Sunnite in Syria 2)
Breakup of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan's independence. C) Possible scenarios:
1) capturing Baghdad and Beirut government and establishing the
government known as the Islamic regime by takfiri-jihadi groups. In order to
keep their own entities, the political systems of Syria and Iraq should carry
out reforms mainly in the political, economic and social realms