Volume & Issue: Volume 5, Issue 16, Spring 2016 

Favorable Indicators of the Manager’s Lifestyle in Religious Democracy of Iran

Pages 9-39

Ebrahim Barzegar, Hossein Amanlou

Abstract Managers as leaders of the society enjoy highest impact on leading the country to the Islamic civilization. The purpose of this paper is to study the lifestyle of the managers and to present a right pattern. In this regard the question is about the favorable indicators of manager’s Lifestyle in religious democracy. What is the desirable lifestyle pattern for a manager in the religious democracy? The research hypothesis is based on the three dimensions of a leader’s lifestyle including: political beliefs, political ethics and political behavior of the components of the relationship with God, self, others. Peopleorientated maners, service, simplicity, justice, responsibility and love can be the main indicators of a manager lifestyle. Research method is Qualitative analysis and interpretation. The results show that three layers of beliefs, values and behaviors have the power to design a manager’s lifestyle. Each of these dimensions by creating links with God, with self, with others and nature can found the base of the managers lifestyle. With the creation of this communication indicators empty baskets for indicators have been created then the empty baskets have been filled from Nahjolbalaghe and practices of Imam Ali (p)

Study of the Attention to the Components of Ethnic and National Identity among the Azeri and Kurdish Students in Tehran Universities

Pages 39-67

Abdolmotaleb Abdollah

Abstract Iran is home to different ethnic groups. Young student representing ethnic diversity find university a suitable place to manifest their ethnic characteristics. Many students from different origin find university and its experiences as an arena for presenting their attitudes. Due to the extensive range of issues and ethnic distribution of students across the country, this study tries to analyze the attention of ethnic Kurdish and Azeri students of universities in Tehran to their regional and national identity. The results shows that these students believe in national and religious identity along with regional and ethnic characteristics. Although Azaries highlighted ethnic tendencies more than Kords, both reflects the same type of tendency in other matters.

Classification of the Cultural-Tourism Indexes Which Can Increase Geopolitical Dependency of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic to Iran

Pages 67-93

Hadi Aazami, Seyed Hadi Zarghani, Mohsen Soltani

Abstract Dependence of countries to each other in different field has dramatic effects on the geopolitical weight and type of their behavior. The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic as part of the Azerbaijan Separated by Zangezurmargi corridor from motherland. After the Nagorno-Karabakh War, Iran has been the only reachable ground way between Nakhchivan and Azerbaijan Republic. Due to the many challenges and security issues between the two countries over the years and regarding the abovementioned gape as the biggest strategic problems of Nakhchivan, which caused Nakhichivan dependence to Iran, the relations between the two countries has been changed. The methodology of this research is descriptive-analytic and data collection is orchestrated through library resources and questionnaire for surveying and prioritizing of various variables in cultural and tourism fields showing increasing dependency of Nakhchivan to Iran. Results shows that Components of the abolition of visas for citizens of Azerbaijani and Improving health-care services, Common linguistic, religious and cultural institutions have been the most effective and common historical background and academic relations have been the least effective indicators of dependency of Nakhichivan to Iran.

Diversity of Discourse of Foreign Policy and Aspects of Iran's New Nuclear Diplomacy

Pages 93-121

Ali Akbar Jafari, Dayan Janbaz

Abstract Foreign policy as the most important international behavior of states has always been the area of interaction between theory and practice. The analysis of the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran from internal and external sources has been interpreted from the traditional patterns of foreign policy and based on the mainstream assumptions of positivist and utilitarian international studies. But today it is seriously believed that a realistic analysis of the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran will not be possible except in the framework of our conceptual understanding of the Islamic Republic of Iran. On this basis, we can say that after the victory of the Islamic Revolution we had saw different effects of discursive constructs in the context of the totality of knowledge in the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Therefore, the question of this research is that how diversity discourse in foreign policy had influenced Iran's nuclear diplomacy in different periods of time? In response to this question, the hypnosis of this research is that the diversity of discourse on foreign policy leads to mobilization of resource and consequently, different diplomacy in foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to resolve the nuclear crisis in different periods of time.

Change in the Geometry of Power in the Light of the Nature of the Cultural and Regional Geopolitics of Power; Case Study Changes in Western Asia

Pages 121-141

Ali Adami, Elham keshavarz

Abstract Until the early twentieth century, international relations affected issues such
as war and peace, anarchy of the international system, foreign policy and
military power. In such a condition, the prominent role of the cultural power of
governments was neglected aspect of political studies. Hence, in recent decades
with the emergence of new theories of international relations and the process of
globalization, the issue of international politics became acute, and this has
changed the nature of hard power. On the other hand, in order to have greater
influence in global politics, the governments have tended to regional
cooperation .In this case, the new regionalism caused changes in the nature of
the international system

The Information Revolution and its Impact on War

Pages 141-169

Mehdi Nazemi Ardakani, Majid Nejatpour, Mostafa Mohammadi

Abstract The revolution in information and communication technologies plays a prominent role in organizing military operations in the third millennium. The questions here are about the ways that this revolution affects the soft war? Which wars have been affected by revelation of information and communication? And how can information and communication technologies be used in war? The hypothesis is that Modern information and communication technology have led to the formation of new wars such as the space Cyber warfare, and electronic warfare. Information and communication technology revolution, has changed Combat power and military tactics and has played a key role in the victory of wars. With the advent of electronic networks, a fundamental change in power relations appeared, and new players who are flexible and do not follow rule of law posing potential threat to the world order

The Expansion of Information and Communications Technologies: Theoretical Approaches and Security Considerations of Iran

Pages 169-192

Morteza Nourmohammadi, Roohollah Talebi Arani

Abstract Technology always has played an increasingly vital role in shaping human life. In terms of International Relations, the existence of nuclear weapons technology affected politics during Cold War era, but, nowadays, in the Age of Information, Information and communications technology play an increasingly vital role in international system, international security, war and conflicts. Thus, drawing a content analysis on significant theoretical classic texts in international relations, the article seeks to explain whether and to what extent three grand theoretical approaches to international relations, realism, liberalism and constructivism, have theoretically paid attention to a role played by the expansion of Information and communications technology in international arena. The article concluded that international relations theories would have experience a conceptual development. The reflexivist criticism of the dominant theoretical approaches of international relations grow more severe, and theories such as constructivism would be more significant than ever.