Strategic Studies Quarterly

Abstract The paper aims at studying the concept of security according to the latest security schools. Indeed, the latest security schools, namely, the English School, the Copenhagen School, the Paris School, the Wales School and the Post-Colonial School are those schools of security that fall in this category. In this way, the author studies “the reference of security” based on the said schools and consequently he compares those schools’ ontology, epistemology and methodology. As findings of the study reveals the reference of security is different to those schools and for each of them are as follows: the English School, individual/ state; the Wales School, individual/ people; the Copenhagen School, state/ community; the Paris School, society or political community; and finally, the Post-Colonial School, the southern subordinates

Abstract Abstract: the main purpose of this article is to develop an Ekhvanist analysis of Qatar foreign policy toward 2011 Arab revolutions. The agency of Qatar, based on Ekhvanist political Islamic discourse, is a complex of pragmatism and Ekhvanism in foreign policy. So, author first tries to illustrate a general picture of Qatar foreign policy based on Ekhvanism in search of a new identity, and then analyses it’s indicators in Qatar pragmatism. At last , he explains status of Ekhvanist political Islamic discourse in Qatar foreign policy toward Arab revolutions.