Strategic Studies Quarterly

Abstract The purpose of this study is to survey the different types of ethnic political actions in Iran and the process of their formation and development in different states of government and government, With the intention of helping to analyze the ethical roots of ethnicity and policymaking by presenting patterns of political action of Iranian ethnicities. Albert Hirschman's theoretical framework of "protest, exit and loyalty" is used for Surveying the pattern and process of ethnic political action.
 

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This article attempts to provide a picture of existing attitudes on political culture in Iran with a review of the research done over the last hundred years. The findings of the research show that most of these studies are based on positivist view and in the framework of Almond and Verba theory. From the methodological point of view, most of them are based on survey or documentary-historical methods. Studies related to political culture in Iran during this period show that Iranian political culture has been relatively stable over the past hundred years; political culture is viewed in the sense of national character; political culture is an obstacle to political development; and, of course, these studies suffer from some kind of Orientalist constructivism.
 

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This article seeks to examine the aims of publication the prison memoirs of individuals and political groups during the Pahlavi regime. One of the main functions of publication the communists memories in Reza Shah's prison was the propaganda for the benefit of the Tudeh Party. The memoirs also were a manifesto against the regime and delegitimize it. The Pahlavi regime also published some jail memoirs in support of its ideology and interests with attracting some prisoners. The memories of Pahlavi regime prisoners after the Islamic Revolution have also been published with the aim of delegitimizing the regime, legitimizing the revolutionary groups and delegitimizing the counter-revolutionary groups. In their representations of imprisonment, storytellers have standardized the behavior of their own groups as "normal" and rejected their "other" in various ways. The publications of memoirs have a function in "Political Post-Revolutionary Events Now" and resulted in the elimination of some individuals and political groups.
 

Abstract This article surveys the importance and role of historiography in Iran's national security. Accordingly, the role of historiography in development of ideology and political identity and the relationship between history and national security is examined. Then deal with a critical approach to the post-revolutionary historiography that neglected the security implications of historiography. Finally, referring to the "Iranshahr theory", authors have mentioned it as one of the most important historiography strategies to the national security of Iran. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the importance of scientific-strategic historiography and its impact on national security.
 

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This study deals with the role of historiography in preserving Iran's territorial integrity. The author believes that historiography in all periods of Iranian history has been a most important tool for preserving and reproducing Iranian territorial identity. It also strengthened the nationalism and has increased the importance of Iran's territorial integrity to elites and public opinion.  
 

Abstract Secrecy in diplomatic relations can be both necessary and dangerous at the same time. In the Westphalian system, the concept of secrecy has become a standard and largely legitimate form of diplomatic action by reference to national security needs. On the other hand, with the recent developments in the concept of sovereignty in the domestic and international arenas, the development of such communications, the concept of transparency has been taken into consideration as one of the main elements of national security and has given rise to a concept called the transparency-Secrecy paradox. The basis of this paradox is that secrecy in diplomatic negotiations, justified by national security, could ultimately, and simultaneously, seriously undermine the credibility of governments, and therefore undermine national security. This paper reaches to the most important variables that influence the optimal level of secrecy using multi-criteria decision-making and network analysis modeling. This level of secrecy must at the same time ensure the effectiveness of diplomatic relations, while minimizing the risk to the credibility of the governments applying these methods. In the end, it is shown what pattern of diplomatic negotiations can provide this optimal level of secrecy when some of these variables are prioritized.
 

Abstract Securitization is depended to the context of the “Security Problem”. Transition of the environment from a normal issue to the political and security ones has made Nordic's security model as a new model. The research hypothesis is that the environmental threats in the Nordic have first transitioned from the public Sphere (the normal) into the political and security Sphere and then, through the four processes of security policy-making, security strategy, political capital, and actors' consensus become a part of the social life of citizens.