Political Quarterly
Year:2007 | Volume:37 | Issue:3|Papers Count:13

The main purpose of liberalist economy which has been found on the basis of utilitarianism philosophy deems to be economic growth and public welfare. In this way, it has been an instrument in the service of capitalism. Furthermore, its achievements have been wide difference of classes and the continuation of richness of some particular groups and finally the spread of the oppression and injustice. In this article, we are going to discuss the fact that although some liberalist philosophers and economists talk about justice in distribution, however, essentially, principles and bases of this school deny justice and this paradox is because of the incompatibility of liberalist principles with justice. The main purpose of liberalism is a kind of growth and development which is contrary to justice. But conversely, the important characteristic of the economic system of Islam is that its commands and laws including its economic laws are based on justice, a concept which is rooted in principles and bases of this religion. In addition to the perfect collection of laws, principles governing to the ownership, production, distribution and economic growth and development in this economic system are in harmony with the main goal of justice.

The Purpose of present article is to review relations between Islamic Republic of Iran and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council since 2003. This review is based on the analysis of historic events and affairs, such as Iraq occupation and formation of shi'ee government in that country, the dilemma of a nuclear Iran, and thirty four day war in Lebanon in this period of time By the development of shi'ee discourse in the region as a result of increase in shi'ee power in Iraq, and sensitiveness of sunni Arbab countries towards the establishment of a strategic alliance between Iran and Iraq as well as Lebanon events as evidences for the formation of shi'ee crescent, the Middle East entered in a new discourse challenge. This challenge has had considerable influence on how resolve or escalate Iran's nuclear crisis. It has happened by convergence between Arab countries points of view and US invasive approach to Iran. For intra-regional contradictions we try to keep under observation important events and affairs in the Middle East and their influence on Iran's relation with the Persian Gulf cooperation Council and explain it by a scientific approach. It will be done by using realist indices such as balance of power and suspicious between two sides.

By the end of Iran-Iraq war and the need for reconstruction of the regions damaged during the war, the changes in the world social and economic structure and the fall of Soviet Union marked the changes in international and domestic relations. These developments paved the way for the revision of Iranian foreign policy and engaging in an active dialogue with the rest of the world. The collapse of Soviet Union and disappearance of the world bi-polar order gave a more freedom and discretion to the EU in its international relations from the United States policies. This independent position by EU reflects the converging interests among the member states of EU for expanding ties with Iran, in particular in economic sphere. Because of the absence of the United States in economic activities in Iran, EU's access to the Iranian market is more attractive for EU. EU was keen not to lose this opportunity. In this paper we shall review the international, regional and local developments which led to the expansion of the interactions between Iran and EU in the above period.

The ((object of study)) in this essay should be defined as the impact of political culture of ((the Islamic Republic of Iran))'s elite on national identity in an epoch-making period of hej. 1357 to 1380; & in conformity with this end, two important & correlative raised queries cross the mind: a) has ((the Islamic Revolution))'s ideology affirmatively affected the consolidation & continuation of Iran's territorial identity? b) has social contribution & political mobilisation positively affected the consolidation & continuation of Iranian nationalism. In reply to the above-mentioned questions, firstly we divide the period into three separate historical eras & afterwards, basing upon these different historical eras, we shall elaborately analyse & assiduously evaluate three dialectics about the effectuality of intellectuals' political culture upon national identity & its principles (such as Iran's political geography, nationality & Iranian nationalism.

The aim of this article is to discourse the meaning of Hermeneutics; its origins, Divisions and applications in Political concepts. The concept of Hermeneutics has been derived from three elements which are; Text or context, Interpreter (Hermous) and audiences or those who are addressed. These three elements intend to deal with explanation of hidden dark points which ruled on universe of Nature and Humanity. However, we should know that each concept in this world is always evolved and changed. Thus we have tried to present an explanation of such development of concepts in this essay.

In recent two decades, the international system has encountered a new period that is called Globalization. Globalization has not only affected the states sovereignty, but has also led to the formation new players in world s arena which have dominated the world s economics. Governments reaction to globalization has been differed. Some of them have resisted in this process, while others have tried to create new political and economical capacities in order to adapt to globalization. This paper has tried to discuss the impact of economics globalization on Iran s Foreign Policy making. The requirements of economics globalization have been considered from two aspects: first, economics approach to foreign policy which has led to the appearance of the role of economics instruments in Iran s foreign policy. Second, adopting dialectic method to confronting globalization which could lead to changes in decision maker s attitudes, the efficiency and the development of Islamic Republic of Iran s Foreign Policy. Any way, entering the globalization arena is an essential political decision and one of the ways to remove the possible obstacles in the process of globalization is to reform the economical structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

For this article democracy is guaranteed by the Unity between community and government. the views of well known democracy scholars and also development of capitalism (from classical liberalism to revisionist liberalism and then to new-liberalism) explain the necessity of this unity for democracy existence. This research urges that accelerating globalization process has weakens the unity between community and government, and subsequently democracy is facing a crisis. various theoretical endeavors has been made by scholars to explain future of democracy in the globalization age .these theories, in this paper, has been classified and studied within three group including End of Democracy , Cosmopolitanism and Reflexive Modernization.

From the first days of its establishment, Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), as an economic integration comprising 10 developing countries located in a region of geo-economic and geo-strategic importance, with considerable population and market size, significant reservoirs of oil and gas and profuse raw materials has been of interest of international and regional experts and scholars. However, the interests have recently been of more critical nature; to the extent that some scholars contend that it is now a failed organization or has been transformed to a mere forum. The present article investigates the main arguments of the critics and provides some counter-arguments. It also introduces a few specific indicators more suitable for reviewing the Organization's performance. Utilizing these indicators, ECO's achievements and failures are reviewed in the second section of the article. As a result of the said review, last section of the article has been devoted to the presentation of some recommendation for strengthening, enhancement and expedition of achieving of the Organization to its main goals and objectives.

Nowadays rote and position of each country for achieving to national interest in international scenes depend to world geopolitical strategies and the other hand national security of each country has near communication to national power and geopolitical and threat of that country. In this base geopolitical strategies has effected to national security of country changing of American geopolitical strategies after disputation of geopolitical balance during of cold war had very counseqenced in world and regional scenes especially in the Middle East that Iran is in the center and exile of it. This changing caused series argument about of national security of Iran. Especially that the U.S.A in age after cold war for put the middle East as perfect own geostrategy and direction adopted this geoeconomic with own geostrategy areas and to follow composed peaceful in the boarder of north , west , and south of new heartowd that form . This changing had made this question that what relation has between changing of U.S.A geopolitical strategies and national security of Iran? What is the deafened strategy with probably threats of national security of Iran? This article supply to finding for answering to questions.

In this article, the social and political thoughts of Saeed Hajjarian are studied. The content of his book, Az Shahed-e Ghodsi Ta Shahed-e Bazari is introduced. The secularizing of the religion on the sphere of politics is the basis of all studies done in different fields such as tradition, discourse, ideology, and utopia .In fact, Hajjarian's basic approach is his attitude toward the secularism in political sociology and issues related to Iran's development. The writer tried to challenge Hajjarian's theoretical framework, his approach and thoughts with a critical thinking and conclude that Hajjarian did not consider the current facts in Iran. However, in a broad sense he achieved his desired conclusions.