Strategic Studies Quarterly

Abstract It would be preciously necessity to examining more the essential constituent of nature of security studies inIran. In regard to the necessary and for focusing security conception or a sense of need to it and security studies in one side, and the difference between security studies in Iran and Iranian security studies in the other side, the paper is reviewing the history of shaping security studies in Iran so that finding and analyzing the problems and challenges in them. Security studies inIranfor being an independent realm need to emancipating from three dependencies such as the conceptually, the scientifically, the thoughtfully.

Abstract The relationship between security, politics and strategy has frequently been subject to academic debates and the demarcation of boundaries among these concepts and the contours of their study areas are the result of such academic debates and contentions. In this article, the author examines the historical grounds of change in the aforementioned concepts and analyzes their mutual relationship according to four traditional, meta-traditional, modern and postmodern discourses in order to explain part of ambiguities and complexities of the concept of security. Indeed, dependence of the security concept on concepts of politics and strategy and the overlapping of security studies area with areas of political and strategic studies – as the fundamental assumption in the existing literature of security studies – is challenged in the writing. In answering the question of what relationship exists between the concept of security and concepts of politics and strategy in terms of time sequence, the author tests the hypothesis that there is no time sequence between the concepts of security, politics and strategy and that historical-discursive change in such concepts indicates their coincidence.