Political Strategic Studies

Abstract The elevated place of Ferdowsi’s Book of Kings in creating and developing the
structures of the Iranian Identity has served as an appropriate ground for
identifying the depths of the Iranian’s collective spirit. For this, the deeper this
important work is studied the more it offers an insight into and helps grasp the
inner nature of the Iranian world view from the point of international relations.
In other words, maybe no other written work can prove as effective as
Ferdowsi’s Book of Kings in reflecting the desires and ideals of the Iranian
individual in the wake of history and existence. Therefore, this article is an
attempt to showcase the manifestation of certain identity-related elements of
Ferdowsi’s Book of Kings in the present Identity and international world view of
the Iranian individuals

Abstract Throughout history, many nations are formed; nations with various specifications
that relied on their favorable traits guided the next generation and formed the next
communities. Sometimes they were in the form of nations but suffer from the lack the
organization and without any collective wisdom and due to mismanagement they
were doomed to extinction. So, the question is “what factors and requirements are
needed to shape a virtue nation and guarantee its survival?”
In this paper, we aim to answer the above mentioned question. In this way we tried
to analyze the articles and literature in nation-building and good governance
according to the grounded theory and content analysis to find out the factors and
strategies for maintaining and recognizing nation’s existence. Thus a model
consists of three components was developed and designed. In order to evaluate,
regulate and modify the designed pattern, by using Delphi method and also
referring to some elites in the field of research modeling, the model was presented
to 17 elites in two-round Delphi. In the second round of Delphi, the model was
approved by elites so sustainable nation-building model was redesigned as a gift
of nation-building in the light of good governance. This model consists of 3
components: a) obligations of initiating nation- building (general and specific
national identity), b) strategies for continuing the processes for nation-building
(social justice, effective government, citizenship, political socialization) and c)
consequences of continuing existence of the nation and nation-building process
(national integrity, public trust, permanent peace, balanced and sustainable
development, national and international legitimacy).

Abstract Transition Period is a key subject in the discipline of International relations and
politics. At the present time, there is a consensus among academic forums about the
fact that the existing order is experiencing new changes. Critics have tried to
understand these changes and their impacts on general trends. Along with other
transformational tendencies, the experience of the Islamic Revolution as a
transformational movement advanced change in the geometry of international
power from the beginning. The main question of this article is that are there any
philosophical and theoretical bases for change in the international social order in
Islamic Revolution and the Iran’s contexts? As a result, the main goal of this article
is to explore the philosophical foundations of change desire in the Iranian culture
and to build a link between these foundations and new imperatives for acting in line
with changing the geometry of international power. This hypothesis assumes the
existence of rich intellectual and philosophical layers in the Islamic Republic and
Iran driving at active participation in the process of changing the geometry of
international power. In answering the question regarding existing philosophical
potentialities in Iranian and Islamic cultures in the process of changing the
geometry of international power, this article relying upon the rational approach,
explains resources contributing change in the existing geometry of international
power in the context of Iranian cultural life. For this reason, this article claims that
the notion of demanding change in various orders (general and particular) lies in
the essence of the Islamic Revolution and is the product of Iranian culture and
history. Another point is that demanding change paradoxically involves the
recognition existing ethnicities. This can also be interpreted as a kind of invitation.
This invitation includes both will to change and will to conform.

Abstract Conflicts between Islamic Republic of Iran and The Zionist regime has long
been studied from the various perspectives of International Relations.
Perspectives such as Constructivism, Realism, Regional Balance of Power, are
some of these perspectives. In other works geopolitical status, ideological,
geostrategic, and geocultural problems have been considered by scholars and
researchers. But in this article, it has been tried to study each one of these
governments as a normative value system which attempt to expand and spread
its own norms and values in the international space. Therefore, the main
question of this paper seeks to explore the factors that lead to negative
perspective between the two. In fact, it can be argued that the expanded value
system of each government caused bankruptcy of norms of the other in the
international system. In other words, the spreading norms of each one of these
two opposite value systems will guarantee the survival of that government in
international system and limit the breathing space of the opponent.

Abstract The authors of this paper try to explore the black box in the contemporary
domestic issues, the nature of the state, the identity and the impact of these
issues on the foreign policy approaches. Based on an appropriate theoretical
framework, using the principles of constructivism school with emphasis on
environmental factors and cultural resources, values and norms, the authors
explain how to plan the formation of identity in contemporary Iran’s foreign
policy.
The central idea of the paper is that Iran's foreign policy orientation has
profoundly influenced by the identity of the approaches, however, the weakness
or absence of civil society makes the government’s define identity through the
political elite rather than logical interaction with the nation. Such a process has
severe effects on Iran's foreign policy and caused losing national interests in
some cases

Abstract Political behaviors of Takfiris have made many scholars to think about
similarities of this stream with the early Kharijites of Imam Ali’s era. There are
many signs of similar behaviors, arguments, and theoretical stances between the
two which makes us think about the conceptualization of neo-Kharijites. In this
paper, as hypothesis it has been argued that Takfiris can be considered neoKharijites as they refer to the past with information to reveal unknowns.
The methodology of the research is comparative. Some efforts have been made
to decode mysteries of the behaviors of the Takfiris and to extract some patterns
from the actions of Kharijites to analyze Takfiris. In this paper, we identified
twenty five similarities in believes, and manners between these traditional and
modern streams

Abstract The authors of this paper try to explore the black box in the contemporary
domestic issues, the nature of the state, the identity and the impact of these
issues on the foreign policy approaches. Based on an appropriate theoretical
framework, using the principles of constructivism school with emphasis on
environmental factors and cultural resources, values and norms, the authors
explain how to plan the formation of identity in contemporary Iran’s foreign
policy.
The central idea of the paper is that Iran''s foreign policy orientation has
profoundly influenced by the identity of the approaches, however, the weakness
or absence of civil society makes the government’s define identity through the
political elite rather than logical interaction with the nation. Such a process has
severe effects on Iran''s foreign policy and caused losing national interests in
some cases