POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
Year:2012 | Volume:7 | Issue:17|Papers Count:9

One of the methods to know about development and progress strategies in the study of cases and practical experiences relating to them, especially those successful. Among different countries and regions in the globe, the East Asia is regarded as a successful model of attempting to pursue modernization and development process. In this regards, Taiwan should be named as one of the most successful examples to achieve the developed status, due to her attempts during five recent decades. The article reviews Taiwan's experience and the role of the state in passing process to modern status.

The transition of Iraq's political system info a “federative democratic” one, has faced the Middle East region, especially those Arab countries with Kurdish minorities among them with different challenges. Relating to those countries with Kurdish minorities such as Iran, Turkey and Syria, this political system change could cause new demands among them on the one hand, and by accompany of the regional and trans-regional actors, Israel and the United States, may lead to form a new independent and free Kurdish State with several security consequences, on the other hand. There is also Arab countries anxiety relating to the political change in Iraq, especially when it leads to establish a federative system in Kurdistan, because it could weaken the Arabic identity on the one hand, and marginate Arab Sunnite and increase Iran power, on the other hand.Where as most of the Arab countries are governed by non-democratic regimes, it is believed that the change should be considered along with the United State goal of democratization process in the Middle East region, inspired by Greater Middle East project.

Economic Co-operation Organization (ECO), is a regional and international organization with economic specifications which Iran is considered the most important of its members and founders. The Islamic Republic of Iran's condition, not only in the ECO region, but in the world, is the most fragile one, due to the fact that it is near the greatest drugs producing center. Nearly 80% of the world illegal drugs consumption is produced in Afghanistan which at least 50% of it enters to Iran whether to be consumed or trafficking aimed outside of Iran. Viewing the fact that ECO Zone, due to its social, climate, geophysical and geopolitical situation, has a great capacity to produce, consume and transit drugs, therefore, there is no other way except to find a common solution which is acceptable to all member countries in the regional level in the way of fighting against the problem. The author of the article intends to determine what attempts are conceivable by member countries regarding to reduce or eliminate the social effects of this phenomenon.

Ali Shariati belongs to an intellectual generation who tried to compose modern concepts with religious ones, apart from its defects and shortages, in order to make a new synthesis as a basis for an ideal society and politics. These thinkers, besides their influences on the intellectual sphere of decades, they also contributed in shaping the Islamic Revolution and its institutions. The article tries to compare some of the modern concepts of Shariati's thought relating to political modernity and measures its effect on the Islamic Revolution.

This research has been done based on an infer-disciplinary approach in two marketing and politics fields. In this regard, virus marketing is considered as independent variable, and the success of parties and candidates in election competition as dependent variable. Virus marketing is one of the new marketing technics which presents solutions to help activists in the political field in order to reduce the publicity costs and, at the same time, to increase their influence. This technic, in giving new political messages, has very suitable messages. This is a kind of field research with applicable aim and descriptive one from methological point of view. It has been accomplished by sampling and questionnaire distributing among students and professors of relating disciplines (Political Science and Business Management-Marketing) of Islamic Azad University Units at Tehran. This has been done for the first time in Iran and its application could increase the influnce of political messages during elections.

The article attempts to study the case of new media influence on politics, especially foreign policy. The present research tries, by introducing some of those theories relating to mutual effects of the media and politics, to use them to explain the subject study. By using historical facts in regard to application of media in politics, especially foreign policy, this paper presents suitable explanation of different kinds of media effects on politics, and in this case, it is based on the historical-descriptive methodology. The article also introduces some solutions to increase the media role on foreign policy in order to help politicians.

The responsibility of universities in the process of internationalization is that, by adopting a future orienting approach, to draw up and apply the relating strategies and goals. The paper follows to introduce those strategies which could be considered as a scientific guide for planning a promotion program relating to the country's higher education in general, and the Islamic Azad University in particular. In regards to move towards a desirable situation, we could consider the question of what characteristics should the Islamic Azad University possess in the process of internationalization? Therefore, in this research, after reviewing literature study, the desirable characteristics of the higher rank universities of the world, and the role of English language and informative technology have been studied and analyzed. Besides, the effort has been made to create the conditions suitable for regulating the most important indexes necessary to draw up the pattern of an ideal university and its manifestation in order to achieve this important goal.

The wise procedure as an expert term in the Jurisprudence and relating principles indicates the method and manner of the wise when they embark upon or abstain an affair apart from the intervention and effects of time, space, religion, race and group factors. The custom of the wise always and in every society has been considered and regarded as a criterion in practice and the sacred religious law of Islam has also endorsed many of the wise practices at that time. The wise procedure, always and nearly from the beginning time of the Shiite Feghah has been focused by the Foghaha and continuously played creative role. However, it seems that most of the capacities of this institution, in solving the political, economic, cultural and international problems have not yet been exploited. The article intends, while introducing shortly the wise procedure and its functions, studies the Shiite thinkers ideas relating to the religious validity of wise manners.