United States and containing of adversaries: Buck-Passing framework

Ali Adami; Majid Dashtgerd

Volume 1, Issue 3 , December 2013, Pages 1-28

Abstract
  John Mearsheimer believes that great powers used two mains strategies in offensive realism to Contain and control the enemies and rivals. 1) Balance 2) controlling rivals through Buck-Passing. The author attemptsto show examples of United States’ efforts to curb adversaries through the second strategy. ...  Read More

Political metaphor of the Straight path in Ibn - e- Teimyeh’s thoughts

Ebrahim Barzegar

Volume 1, Issue 3 , December 2013, Pages 29-44

Abstract
  Ibn -e- Teimyeh, a Sunni political thought and influential thinker, has a lot of Books and essays. The reflection of His thoughts is even perceived as modern and contemporary era. This paper tries to focus on the direct path metaphor to describe his political views and religious beliefs. The Author has ...  Read More

Rebellion & insurrection against goverments: Islamic and Christianity’s views

Saleh hassanzadeh

Volume 1, Issue 3 , December 2013, Pages 75-108

Abstract
  there are two views about the relationship and interaction with the political system in west .1) Theory of Democracy. 2) Christian doctrine of divine right. As in Islam between Sunni and Imami faced two perspectives. Proponents of democracy do not have right to rebel against the government. Or Such right ...  Read More

Color revolutions: An Analytic & Comparative study

Mohammad Bagher Khoramshad; Elahe Khani

Volume 1, Issue 3 , December 2013, Pages 109-131

Abstract
  The outbreak of color revolutions in post-communism, Latin-American, Middle East were cause scholars to survey different dimension and traits of this new revolutions from diverse dimensions. In this way, offering a comprehensive and theoretic framework from mixing of the available theories and objective ...  Read More

Replacing Islamic Basics in Wallerstein's world-system theory: A survey

Mohammad Hadi Hamidiyan; Abodolhossein Khosropanah

Volume 1, Issue 3 , December 2013, Pages 133-156

Abstract
  This paper does not criticize a theory or a theorist. Wallerstein’s thoughtdon’t analyzed Islam but he seeks to show religious practices in the form of an example. Science theories are not generated by the same methodology. Also, beliefs and assumptions are stated in based of the premises. ...  Read More

Hydro political effects of Arvandrud River on Iran-Iraq future relations

Bahram Mohseni; Mehdi Rahimipur

Volume 1, Issue 3 , December 2013, Pages 157-180

Abstract
  Rivers have geographical advantages and values; dependence of a country to the geographical values of the other states is considered as a geopolitical dependence which paves the way for contrast and dispute or cooperation among countries. Geopolitical crisis is the result of dispute over geographical ...  Read More