Political Strategic Studies
Year:2016 | Volume:5 | Issue:18 (48) |Papers Count:7

There are numerous evidence proving that the Platonic and Aristotelian thoughts, even those of Socrates, are inspired by the Eastern, especially Persian, thought. There are two reasons for this fact: First, the state of Greece at that time and communication of the Greek with the East, especially frequent trips of the Magi and Eastern clerics to Minor Asia, and those of the Greek scholars to the East which paved the way for the acquaintance. Second, the sublime features of Iranian ideal kings which were always the foundation of Iranian religious and political thought. An ideal and just kingship has been a title whose necessary virtues have had similarities with divine perfection. The present study insists on the influence of the Ancient Iranian Ideal Kingship Theory on the Western Philosophers, especially Plato.

This paper explains the military service policy-making and the process of nation-making in Iran based on the institutional approach. The author explains how the issues of nation-making and military service entered the policy-making calendar in Iran by application of cyclic process of policy-making. Finding show that there is a collaborative relation between military service policy-making and the process of nation-making in contemporary Iran. The system of analysis in this research is theoretical institutional framework and the methodology is descriptive. The time period of the analysis is early nineteenth century. Based on the policy-making cycle, the policy issue of military service and its entrance to the policy calendar is stated in the problem statement. Finally, after the explanation and analysis of the collaboration of military service policies with nation-making process in Iran, the way of collaboration and coordination between the two main factors during the last two centuries in Iran have been clarified.

With the victory of the Islamic Revolution and establishment of a religious democracy in Iran, the question about compatibility of Islam and democracy has become a fundamental issue. This article aims to answer whether it is possible to locate origins of the theory of religious democracy in pre-Revolutionary Islamic thinkers. The hypothesis of the article is that it is possible to find a pattern for religious democracy in the thought of the religious scholars such as Morteza Motahhari, which served as a pioneer for theoretical debates in this field. The article uses the current-discourse method to obtain Motahhari’s views about democracy and its relation with religious democracy and its established form in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Political tolerance and permission of activity for all groups and political parties, is an inseparable component of democracy, especially in countries like Iran with various groups and political parties, each of them has a unique outlook and approach. Lack of political tolerance, prevents the creation of solidarity in achieving the goals of the political system and political will at the highest levels of political violence. This question has two parts: what is the level of political intolerance in this sample? What factors are affecting the political tolerance. Therefore, the aim of this study is to survey, measure of the political tolerance and its influencing factors among students in Ferdowsi University. According to the theoretical background, social capital variables, political awareness, education, gender and age as factors influencing political tolerance were selected. The results show that political tolerance is desirable. The results of the research also show that social capital has the greatest impact and political awareness and education is second and third in terms of importance. Moreover, Bridging Social Capital has a greater impact on political tolerance than Bonding Social Capital.

The new generation of studies on security is an outcome of the transition from the Cold War that has turned the traditional concepts and definitions of security to something new that includes diverse aspects such as political, economic, social, and environmental matters. This study attempts to discuss and analyze one of the most dangerous and complicated threats of the world security and an effective variable on the Islamic Republic of Iran`s security, namely ISIS. In fact, the study is carried out to answer this fundamental question, “How can Iran`s security be effected by ISIS as a threat? ”. The qualitative analysis of available data reveals that ISIS presence and influence in the region in terms of security to act as a double-edged sword for Iran's security. Ignorance about each edge of the abovementioned blade can result in the flawed analysis of ISIS impacts on Iran's security. This article is an applied research with qualitative research method in which an attempt is made to measure the impact of the independent variable of "ISIS" on "Iran's security".

Yemen crisis is one of the challenging issues in the Middle East which has been determined, so far, by regional and global powers. As two regional powers, Iran and Saudi Arabia are among the countries which has demonstrated opposite behaviors in this issue. Different approaches in decision making in these two countries has caused them to adopt a contrastive foreign policy toward their areas as a result of different subjective and objective interpretations. The current crisis in Yemen is among challenging domains between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Here, the controversy between the two concepts of Shiite's Islam and Wahhabi's islam have dragged the two countries' relations towards a regional cold war. Therefore, the present study aims at analyzing and revising the contrast between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen's current crisis.

Yemen crisis is not only emanating from the role of internal actors, but also is because of engaging and intervening of the regional and extra-regional such as Saudi Arabia, cooperation council of Persian gulf, America and Zionist regime that has played the critical role in process of formation of Yemen crisis and its exacerbation. findings of this research show that the official of policy making of America argued that by engaging of Iran in the regional level and the regions that consider as strategic depth of the social and political base of Iran, it led to erosion of the regional and political power and capacity of Iran and the resistance block.the main question of this paper is that what are the main factors of formation of Yemen crisis and role of the external and internal actors especially Saudi Arabia and America in Yemen crisis. Research method is analytical- description. The theoretical framework of this research is focused on using of the Jon Foran theory (causes of revolutions defeat and regional balance in the heterogenetic systems in the ciaos making or creating strategic environments.