POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
Year:2012 | Volume:8 | Issue:20|Papers Count:8

Islamic Republic of Iran’s Constitutional Law, Perspective Document and forth Development program are the most important primary documents to be used for a research about internal and external policies of Iran. On the other hand it is more than three decades that Islamic Republic of Iran has experienced and accumulated different layers of them in its foreign policy text.Each one of these will reveal their true values while are compared and evaluated by existing primary documents from the theoretical and organizational dimensions. Regarding the above mentioned proposition, the research intends to examine the text of the9th and 10th government’s foreign policy by discourse analysis method and constructionist theory.

In today’s world, economic diplomacy has been one of the aspects of modern diplomacy. To place economy in the center of politics and power has led to a dislocation in security determining elements in world scale and has made hegemon countries maximum use of it as a vehicle to control insecurities and to manage nation-states behavior. The extent of area of economic diplomacy is, so to speale, the achievements need to have deep knowledge of world developments and domestic necessities and harmony with all their relating institutions. The fact that what is the role of economic diplomacy in the process of policy-making and directing it suitable with the country’s domestic and external conditions and how can use its capacities for improving Iran’s place in the world, is a question which the research has tried to answer it.

Non-governmental organizations in world today, while are considered as a symbol of democracy in different societies, they are also recognized as competitive institutions before the governments that undertake part of the executive burden of governments. In regard to the popular nature of these organizations, they are considered as popular supervising institutions over governmental activities due to implementing their demands. The article, after discussion on non-governmental organizations relating to human rights concept and humanitarian activities in the world today, it has also explained the place of international non-governmental organizations in promotion and extension of humanitarian activities along with cooperation with the United Nations Organization.

The collapse of the Soviet Union Republics has brought about great changes in the international system structure and the soviet influence zone. One of the consequences of the changes was to emerge the new born republics in the coasts of the Caspian Sea. As a result, the legal system of the Sea became a complicated and many sided problem. In spite of more than twenty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the relating problem of its legal regime has not yet been resolved. The problem of the Caspian Sea is a security matter for Islamic Republic of Iran, while it is rather economic for other region countries.However, competition among the coastal countries has coincided with the militarization of region. Therefore the Caspian Sea case is regarded rather a security subject than economic one. The military and security consideration in codification of the Caspian Sea regime has performed a key role, and this investigation fellow to explain it.

Since the second half of the twentieth century, the countries have attempted to cooperate and to closing their positions to each other more than before in order to maintain national interests at most. In this regard, in some of the world regions, regional convergence was intensified which led to set up secure societies such as European Union and Persian Gulf Cooperation Council.However, the high level of cooperation with each other among world regions is cooperation between these two regional unions which both two organizations have taken steps in this direction. Some of the cooperation contexts between these two actors have had influence upon the Islamic Republic of Iran which has specific interests in the Middle East region. The article seeks to explain the extent these in fluencies.

This research, according to the structural theory seeks to answer the question that what effect had the revolutionary changes taken place in Egypt and removal of Hossni Mubarak’s totalitarian and secular regime on Israel’e position in the region? It concludes that Egypt’s pre-revolution identity changed by the revolution in to anti-Zionist identity which led to the Israel’s isolation in the region indeed. The destruction of the wall between Egypt and the Palestinian Authority as a security shield for the Israel, the Egyptian people’s demand of major revisions in the Camp David agreement, Egypt’s agreement whit passing two Islamic Republic of Iran’s military ships through the Suez Canal are also some of the consequences of Egypt’s revolutionary development which enters Israel into the new Rea whit new identity and security challenges. The article by using inductive method seeks to anser the question.

Iran and Germany have had vast political and economic relations since a long time ago. After the victory of Islamic Revolution, the Germany’s disagreement toward Iran has been lesser than other western countries.However, the relations between two countries have been always friendly and their entangled economic relations created suitable conditions in favour of increasing mutual cooperations between them. On the other hand, Germany pursues to strengthen her role in international arena, especially within European Union and in case of increasing political relations between two countries; she will be able to support Iran’s participation in international organizations and institutions and equally will also be able to follow her goals in the Middle East through Iran. Therefore, this research, besides of measuring possibilities of mutual political and economic opportunities, tens to analyses disagreements and obstacles dominant in the way of common interests between two countries.

The article intends by examining the cultural and social policies of Reza Shah in Iran an Ata Turk in Turkey, in favour of strengthening secularism and nationalism, attempts to categorize the relating stepts taken in both two countries. To consider the characteristics of both leaders, their views toward religion, status of clergies, judicial, system, education and etc., this investigation seeks, by applying comparative method, to indicate the similarities and differences of steps taken in the social and cultural context of new Turkey after the collapse of the caliphate and modern Iran after the constitutional Revolution.