Strategic Studies Quarterly

Abstract In this survey the implications of foreign trade on environmental security of Iran, specifically due to carbon dioxide emissions, is discussed. The main question of the paper is that how the foreign trade, directly or indirectly, has affected carbon dioxide emissions during 1979 until 2015. To answer the question, the available data are considered and discussed in three different phases. Based on the findings of the paper, the direct effect of the foreign trade has been positive for exports and has increased carbon dioxide omissions. Also, its indirect effect has been positive as it has increased revenues of the country. However, the foreign trade has caused environmental insecurity in Iran.    

Abstract The main argument discussed at the paper is that the Azeri officials are thinking about the relationship with Israel in the context of their dispute with Armenia especially on the Karabakh issue.  In this context they are mainly seeking for having the advanced military equipment and technologies from Israel as well as to acquire the support of Zionist lobby in the USA against Armenia.  Israel and its turn values its relationship with Azerbaijan within the context of this so-called peripheral doctrine  The main purpose of which is to cope with the Islamic Republic of your own in terms of political, military, intelligence as well as economic matters.
 
 

Abstract   It seems that the strategic approach that highlights the regional and international importance of the JCPOA, can better shed a light on its implications. The strategic approach has meaningful difference from other legal, political, security and technical approaches. Bearing these differences the paper intends to prove the regional and international implications of JCPOA for Iran. In this regard, the main hypothesis is that JCPOA has changed Iran into a regional power and has increased its international reputation. To prove this hypothesis the author has used a documentary way of research and based his argument on the existing facts and future trends that may affect the regional and international actors.   .

Abstract Construction and regeneration of the Jewish identity based on Zionist discourse, currently perused and undergone by the Israeli government, both at domestic and international levels, is one of the important processes in the said discourse. A scrutiny and illustration of various aspects of this mechanism will lead to revealing the hidden layers of the Zionist behavior and approach at internal and external levels. Given the importance of the way of constructing the Jewish identity concurrent with the Zionist discourse, the paper intends to answer the question of regeneration of the Jewish identity within the framework of its own purposes.  Thus it argues that the Zionist discourse is generating the Jewish identity through a distinction construct, while emphasizing Anti-Semitism, organizing the Jews in the Zionist distinction groupings and taking position against “other” identities consistent with the above said purposes.  

Abstract this article after reviewing history of Muslim brotherhood movement as an introduction, tries to explain status of this movement in Islamic awakening and its role in the future foreign policy of Egypt. The main question of author is that: what is the status and role of Muslim brotherhood movement in recent upheavals in Egypt? And how this movement could play a positive role in recent awakening developments and even take the office of presidency, despite brutal and heavy strokes by the Mubarak regime? Author, as his main argument, tries to evaluate and estimate foreign policy of Egypt in strategic issues such as Palestine, relations with Israel, relations with USA and relations with Iran.  

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Salafism is one of the most important ideological events in the history of Islam. Its supporters insist on the necessity of the Salafist approaches, trends and movements based on the feghi literature. They reproduce this literature in accordance with the current events.Iraqthat has a critical geographical and geo-political position and close mutual relations with Iran, has been confronting Salafism since its formation. So, after USinvasion, it has become a nest for the Salafist activities. These activists that can be considered the most prominent non-governmental actors in the present events of Iraq cooperate with other Salafi groups of the region and the world. The writer discusses the developing role and activities of these groups and their geo-political and ideological impact on Iran considering the growth of Salafism in the years after 2003.

Abstract linked to the heterogeneous political identities of the two sides. In this way, the role ofIsraelas an apprehensive variable is very important, because, neither the Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to acceptIsraelas an actor in the region, nor theUScan be indifferent towards the threats and pressures ofIranagainst its long life ally,Israel. It is specially the case due to the Jewish society in theUSas the main important lobby group in the country which is completely effective on decision making in the field of foreign policy including the US Middle East policy. Nowadays, theUSaccusations againstIran, including preventing the peace process in the Middle East, acquiring weapons of mass destruction, harboring terrorism and breach of human rights and democracy are strongly linked with security ofIsrael.  Therefore, although a limited cooperation betweenIranand theUSis possible at the tactical level, but as long as the current interaction between theUSandIsraelgoes on, normalization of theIran–USrelations would be impossible.    

Abstract Every region is a geographical realm with its biological and geographical functions that differentiated with the proximity ones. While the states are all heterogeneous, so could be divided in cultural regions. Government as a formal branch of state is searching for shaping and empowering the national identity by putting weight on subjective and objective common - sense in its regions. InIranas a heterogeneous country with a complicated long –life history, there are many regions that maintenance their ad hoc cultural characteristics in the whole common Iranian identity and culture. So in this respect, national and regional security is vulnerable by these particularities of any region. The balouchestan ofIranconcerns with the same situation by different religious belief and geographical distance from the central government. So for reducing any unrest in this cultural region, the paper recommends to engage the balouchestan in the national development and political participation in the national level and to be free in their religious ceremony in the local level.

Abstract From among the possible types of social transformations, revolution occurs in some societies, while social changes are made in certain other societies without resort to revolutionary violence in line with national goals. Revolutionary change usually ensues the failure of non-revolutionary changes and is often characterized by deep dissatisfaction with the existing conditions, the expansion of new ideologies, intensified revolutionary fever, mobilizing political-social structures, popular participation, violent struggle and the replacement of the previous order with a new system. Iran has experienced a variety of revolutionary and evolutionary changes the latest of which is the Islamic Revolution. If one can offer a theoretical pattern for revolutionary changes in the Iranian society, then this pattern might be used in practice for strategic purposes thus while avoiding violent consequences of revolutionary changes, national goals may be achieved. In the Iranian society, revolutionary potential is always found. Change in the objective and institutional conditions of a society is a starting point for revolutionary change which in the case of availability of sufficient requirements (leadership, organization, and ideology) leads the revolutionary transformation into its ultimate end. This author tries to draw a theoretical pattern of revolutionary change in the Iranian society, while explaining revolution and revolutionary change.