Ali Reza Azghandi; Mehdi Mostakin
Volume 2, Issue 7 , December 2014, Pages 9-32
Abstract
The elevated place of Ferdowsi’s Book of Kings in creating and developing thestructures of the Iranian Identity has served as an appropriate ground foridentifying the depths of the Iranian’s collective spirit. For this, the deeper thisimportant work is studied the more it offers an insight ...
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The elevated place of Ferdowsi’s Book of Kings in creating and developing thestructures of the Iranian Identity has served as an appropriate ground foridentifying the depths of the Iranian’s collective spirit. For this, the deeper thisimportant work is studied the more it offers an insight into and helps grasp theinner nature of the Iranian world view from the point of international relations.In other words, maybe no other written work can prove as effective asFerdowsi’s Book of Kings in reflecting the desires and ideals of the Iranianindividual in the wake of history and existence. Therefore, this article is anattempt to showcase the manifestation of certain identity-related elements ofFerdowsi’s Book of Kings in the present Identity and international world view ofthe Iranian individuals
Ghazaleh Taheri Attar
Volume 2, Issue 7 , December 2014, Pages 34-67
Abstract
Throughout history, many nations are formed; nations with various specificationsthat relied on their favorable traits guided the next generation and formed the nextcommunities. Sometimes they were in the form of nations but suffer from the lack theorganization and without any collective wisdom and due ...
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Throughout history, many nations are formed; nations with various specificationsthat relied on their favorable traits guided the next generation and formed the nextcommunities. Sometimes they were in the form of nations but suffer from the lack theorganization and without any collective wisdom and due to mismanagement theywere doomed to extinction. So, the question is “what factors and requirements areneeded to shape a virtue nation and guarantee its survival?”In this paper, we aim to answer the above mentioned question. In this way we triedto analyze the articles and literature in nation-building and good governanceaccording to the grounded theory and content analysis to find out the factors andstrategies for maintaining and recognizing nation’s existence. Thus a modelconsists of three components was developed and designed. In order to evaluate,regulate and modify the designed pattern, by using Delphi method and alsoreferring to some elites in the field of research modeling, the model was presentedto 17 elites in two-round Delphi. In the second round of Delphi, the model wasapproved by elites so sustainable nation-building model was redesigned as a giftof nation-building in the light of good governance. This model consists of 3components: a) obligations of initiating nation- building (general and specificnational 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 sustainabledevelopment, national and international legitimacy).
Gholam Ali Chegani Zadeh
Volume 2, Issue 7 , December 2014, Pages 69-92
Abstract
Transition Period is a key subject in the discipline of International relations andpolitics. At the present time, there is a consensus among academic forums about thefact that the existing order is experiencing new changes. Critics have tried tounderstand these changes and their impacts on general trends. ...
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Transition Period is a key subject in the discipline of International relations andpolitics. At the present time, there is a consensus among academic forums about thefact that the existing order is experiencing new changes. Critics have tried tounderstand these changes and their impacts on general trends. Along with othertransformational tendencies, the experience of the Islamic Revolution as atransformational movement advanced change in the geometry of internationalpower from the beginning. The main question of this article is that are there anyphilosophical and theoretical bases for change in the international social order inIslamic Revolution and the Iran’s contexts? As a result, the main goal of this articleis to explore the philosophical foundations of change desire in the Iranian cultureand to build a link between these foundations and new imperatives for acting in linewith changing the geometry of international power. This hypothesis assumes theexistence of rich intellectual and philosophical layers in the Islamic Republic andIran driving at active participation in the process of changing the geometry ofinternational power. In answering the question regarding existing philosophicalpotentialities in Iranian and Islamic cultures in the process of changing thegeometry of international power, this article relying upon the rational approach,explains resources contributing change in the existing geometry of internationalpower in the context of Iranian cultural life. For this reason, this article claims thatthe notion of demanding change in various orders (general and particular) lies inthe essence of the Islamic Revolution and is the product of Iranian culture andhistory. Another point is that demanding change paradoxically involves therecognition existing ethnicities. This can also be interpreted as a kind of invitation.This invitation includes both will to change and will to conform.
Seid Mohammad Tabatabaei; Ali Soleimani
Volume 2, Issue 7 , December 2014, Pages 93-123
Abstract
Conflicts between Islamic Republic of Iran and The Zionist regime has longbeen studied from the various perspectives of International Relations.Perspectives such as Constructivism, Realism, Regional Balance of Power, aresome of these perspectives. In other works geopolitical status, ideological,geostrategic, ...
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Conflicts between Islamic Republic of Iran and The Zionist regime has longbeen studied from the various perspectives of International Relations.Perspectives such as Constructivism, Realism, Regional Balance of Power, aresome of these perspectives. In other works geopolitical status, ideological,geostrategic, and geocultural problems have been considered by scholars andresearchers. But in this article, it has been tried to study each one of thesegovernments as a normative value system which attempt to expand and spreadits own norms and values in the international space. Therefore, the mainquestion of this paper seeks to explore the factors that lead to negativeperspective between the two. In fact, it can be argued that the expanded valuesystem of each government caused bankruptcy of norms of the other in theinternational system. In other words, the spreading norms of each one of thesetwo opposite value systems will guarantee the survival of that government ininternational system and limit the breathing space of the opponent.
Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri; Azam Molaee
Volume 2, Issue 7 , December 2014, Pages 125-146
Abstract
The authors of this paper try to explore the black box in the contemporarydomestic issues, the nature of the state, the identity and the impact of theseissues on the foreign policy approaches. Based on an appropriate theoreticalframework, using the principles of constructivism school with emphasis onenvironmental ...
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The authors of this paper try to explore the black box in the contemporarydomestic issues, the nature of the state, the identity and the impact of theseissues on the foreign policy approaches. Based on an appropriate theoreticalframework, using the principles of constructivism school with emphasis onenvironmental factors and cultural resources, values and norms, the authorsexplain how to plan the formation of identity in contemporary Iran’s foreignpolicy.The central idea of the paper is that Iran's foreign policy orientation hasprofoundly influenced by the identity of the approaches, however, the weaknessor absence of civil society makes the government’s define identity through thepolitical elite rather than logical interaction with the nation. Such a process hassevere effects on Iran's foreign policy and caused losing national interests insome cases
Ebrahim Barzeghar
Volume 2, Issue 7 , December 2014, Pages 147-164
Abstract
Political behaviors of Takfiris have made many scholars to think aboutsimilarities of this stream with the early Kharijites of Imam Ali’s era. There aremany signs of similar behaviors, arguments, and theoretical stances between thetwo which makes us think about the conceptualization of neo-Kharijites. ...
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Political behaviors of Takfiris have made many scholars to think aboutsimilarities of this stream with the early Kharijites of Imam Ali’s era. There aremany signs of similar behaviors, arguments, and theoretical stances between thetwo which makes us think about the conceptualization of neo-Kharijites. In thispaper, 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 madeto decode mysteries of the behaviors of the Takfiris and to extract some patternsfrom the actions of Kharijites to analyze Takfiris. In this paper, we identifiedtwenty five similarities in believes, and manners between these traditional andmodern streams
Ali Reza Agha Hosseini; Javad Emam Jome Zadeh; Atefeh forooghi
Volume 2, Issue 7 , December 2014, Pages 125-146
Abstract
The authors of this paper try to explore the black box in the contemporarydomestic issues, the nature of the state, the identity and the impact of theseissues on the foreign policy approaches. Based on an appropriate theoreticalframework, using the principles of constructivism school with emphasis onenvironmental ...
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The authors of this paper try to explore the black box in the contemporarydomestic issues, the nature of the state, the identity and the impact of theseissues on the foreign policy approaches. Based on an appropriate theoreticalframework, using the principles of constructivism school with emphasis onenvironmental factors and cultural resources, values and norms, the authorsexplain how to plan the formation of identity in contemporary Iran’s foreignpolicy.The central idea of the paper is that Iran''s foreign policy orientation hasprofoundly influenced by the identity of the approaches, however, the weaknessor absence of civil society makes the government’s define identity through thepolitical elite rather than logical interaction with the nation. Such a process hassevere effects on Iran''s foreign policy and caused losing national interests insome cases
