RESEARCH LETTER OF POLITICAL SCIENSE
Year:2006 | Volume:1 | Issue:4|Papers Count:8

This article seeks to demonstrate the fact that since 7000 years ago, the Tunb and Abumusa islands have been part of Iran. To do this, the article surveys the historical background of Iran's sovereignty over these islands and provides some British documents which certify to this fact. This article also refers to the DAB claim over these islands and verifies the documents it offers and shows that these documents are not valid.

Iran is encountered with the issue of brain drain. This investigate the factors caused Iranian brain drain after the end of Iran-Iraq war. In fact, the main question is "what is the most important factor causing brain drain from Iran after the end of war"? The article's main assumption is that "the weakness of Iran's scientific and research structures are the main reason for Iranian brains to leave the country. Data has been collected through survey of Iranian university professors and students and SPSS has been used to do the analysis.

The loss of war with Russia during the Qajar period caused Iranians to feel inferior to foreigners. Then Iranian elites assumed that in order to fill the gap between Iran and the foreign countries, Iran has to go through modernization. Modernization of Iran took several years and went through various phases each brought with it new concepts and theories. This article argues that though these concepts and theories were used in Iran but never really applied. The author believes that the Iranian historical existence is an aggregate of concepts and theories which resulted in a catastrophe.

In this article, it will be tried to investigate the relationship between some basic concepts in political thought arena. The author will try to find the relationship between "civil society", "Theory of State" on the one hand and "conflictualism", "pacifism" on the other hand for responding this question: Does a special kind of theories about civil society and state result and issue a particular kind of approach on foreign policy and international relations? The main hypothesis of this article is that "holistic trends in political thought area result conflictual approach in the international scene and Individualism based upon human rights results pacifism in international theory".The author will study six theories of six philosophers in his article. Hegel. Marx and Gramsci, for the holistic trend and Lock, Kant and Popper for the individualism. It can be a typology of political theory which shows the results of different kinds of thoughts in international trends of its proponents.

Ever since the Iranian revolution of 1979 relations and Britain have remained volatile and have suffered from tension, instability and upheavals. Neither reconciliation, nor normalization, has been achieved between the two sides. While Iran's relations with the United States were predictably hostile, Tehran's ties with London could have been expected, at least by the end of the first tempests of the revolution, to be better and more stable. Why did Iran's relations with Britain deteriorate from the beginning, as distinct from other West European countries? What were the origins of Iran's resentment towards Britain? Which forces were behind the hostility between them? What are the prospects for future relations between these two countries? These are but a few questions, the answers for which can be explored by this paper.

This article looks at the concept of "security" and factors lead to it as well as various dimension of it according to Rozatulanvar of Mohaqeq Sabzavari. Since he has been living during the Safavids, this article may demonstrate the political and social situation of that period in Iran as well as how government and politics have been viewed at that time. This article argues that Sabzavari has never been supporting dictatorship and has believed that dictatorship contradicts security. Based on what this article documents, Sabzavari acted according to the theory of Saltanat-e Mashrooah (legitimate monarchy) and accommodative approach so he has cooperated with the Safavids. Sabzavari has been viewing security as a multidimensional phenomenon which can be achieved through various means.