Strategic Studies Quarterly

Abstract Before and after the election, Joe Biden has stated that one of his foreign policy
priorities is to formulate and pursue a new US policy towards Iran. At the heart of
Biden's "Iranian politics" is his return to JCPOA. However, there are ambiguities about
nature and quality of this policy and also USA return to JCPOA. Therefore, this article
tries to answer this question: What are the nature, components and coordinates of
Biden's foreign policy towards Iran and what will it be like? By documentary study
method and analyzing the speeches, letters, and statements made by Biden and his
foreign policy team, it is argued that Biden's foreign policy discourse is "liberal
internationalism." His nuclear policy is also based on a thematic and step-by-step link
to return to the JCPOA in the first step, strengthen and expand its provisions and
extend its time in the second step, and finally extend it to the missile program and
Iran's regional influence in the third step.

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Abstract Abstract Securitization studies focuses on the process and mechanism of securitization of a phenomenon. The goal of these studies is to have a comprehensive understanding of effective factors and variables in securitization. The main question in securitization studies is “who, on what issues, under what circumstances, with what outcomes, does the securitization?” in other words, in securitization studies, we seek to understand “who speaks of security, and based on which threats speaks of security, why security is concerned and under what circumstances it is bolded, and at last, what are the outcomes of security”. This article tries to answer these questions.

Abstract By outset of principality era in   Islamic republic, speech acts and behavior of iran in foreign policy has been changed. The main question of article is: what is the cause of change in foreign policy of principality administration? Authors, as their main hypothesis, argue that the feeling of ontological insecurity has caused reconfiguration of identity resources , foreign policy and change in principality approach toward foreign arena. Authors describe the nuke diplomacy of principality as the most important aspect of their approach.    

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This paper aims at surveying the ways and means of power exertion through power technologies in soft war. This kind of war, more than others, is based on a productive power and this covers especial powers in the process of which the human being is taken as object, subject and so is controlled and criticized and then within the inter- subjectively accepted patterns, the power is exerted. Therefore, in spite of the popular definitions, soft war also implies a special type of violence which is structural and symbolic one. In this kind of war, instead of his body, the mind of human being is aimed to be dominated and then the human aspect of his environment is occupied and colonialized.  This process is realized through three simultaneous phases including stabilization of ones’ own values, destruction of other’s values and changing the second ones into first ones by using technologies of the productive power. To appreciate reference, discourse, culture and subject are some of the most important power technologies in soft war.