STRATEGIC STUDIES QUARTERLY
Year:2019 | Volume:22 | Issue:3 (85)|Papers Count:8

This paper attempts to draw a conceptual model for organizing street unrest. The problem with this study was the lack of a common or inter-subjective definition of organizing and its indicators. In fact, this study attempts to answer two questions. First, what are the indicators of organizing street unrest? And second, what factors influence the organizing of street unrest? Charles Tilly and Ted Robert Gurr's theories were used to answer these questions. A questionnaire was also provided to evaluate the organizing. In this paper, the pairwise comparison method was used to weight the organizing indicators. The most important indicators of organizing are: "There is a division of duties and specialized roles between the opposition", “ There is at least one public treasury of resources such as money, weapons, information or something else with a mechanism for distributing them” , “ Hierarchical distinction between opposition and leadership and follower formation” .

Betrayal ones to his own country is a political and security crime, the most aspect of it is espionage for foreigners. While many studies are done about the crimes, but there are few studies about espionage and Betrayal ones to his own country. The crime of espionage and Betrayal ones to his own country because of its covert nature and its high impact on national security is in very high importance for strategic policy makers. Thus, the aim of this article is to provide a general model for estimating the likelihood of espionage and Betrayal ones to his own country. This is done by literature review of espionage studies and overview the theoretical literature of sociology about crimes and social deviances. The model is made from two category of factors: situational factors and opportunity factors. It is argued that by study of these two factors the likelihood of espionage and Betrayal ones to his own country can be estimated. At the end of this article some indicators of the model are suggested.

The basic question of This article is what kind of problems or limitations are in the face of employment the efficient agents in different subject areas based on the second step of the Islamic Revolution statement? and how can reduce these limitations and preserve the discursive principles at the same time? To answer the question, using causal layer analysis methodology, efficient agent indexes in four levels of literal, contextual, discursive and metaphorical are analyzed with critical approach and by explaining the interconnected aberrations in layers, facilitator requirements at each level are extracted for the revolution second step.

The purpose of the article is to examine King Salman of Saudi Arabia's approach towards Iran and the strategy of the Islamic Republic of Iran against Saudi actions. This paper hypothesizes that Saudi Arabia under King Salman has more than ever attempted to securitization of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the role of "functional actor". The main finding of this article is that support for securitization of Iran's regional role in the Middle East has been a key focus of Malik Salman's Saudi policy toward Iran. The new Saudi leaders have emphasized on what they called "Iran's destructive regional role" and tried to highlight Iran's policies and actions in the Middle East as the main threat to regional stability and security to mobilize various capacities against Iran. Although these measures have exacerbated security pressures against the Islamic Republic of Iran, however, trying to securitization of Iran has faced significant restrictions and challenges.

This article seeks to provide a systematic understanding of tension in US-Turkish relations by creating a link between structural changes in the international system and changes in a declining hegemon relationship with an emerging regional power in the Middle East. The hypothesis of the paper is that the instability in US-Turkish relations is the output of the transition from the post-Cold American order to the post-American disorder in the geopolitics of the Middle East. Indeed, the shift in the balance of international power has changed US leaders' perceptions of America's Middle East role and reduced its strategic commitment to shaping the region's geopolitical order. This has changed Ankara's perception of Turkey's Middle East role and pursuing independent strategies to redefine its status as an order-maker regional power. Therefore, the collision of Middle Eastern roles of the two traditional allies in the context of transition in international system can explain the logic of tension and instability in US-Turkish relations. Role theory is the theoretical framework of this paper upon which changing the role of exterior actor in a region results in a different social structure in the geopolitical order of that region and consequently change in the role of regional powers.

Today, non-traditional security threats, including water scarcity and flood are one of the most important issues that have caused concern in different parts of the world. However, it is not just the physical dimension of the water which worries the countries, but the political aspect of water also posing a threat to different regions of the world so that today countries link water challenges to their national security. One of those areas facing threats on trans-boundary waters is South Asia. Pakistan is one of the countries in South Asia which has linked its shared waters with India to its national security and securitized Indian water activities on the Indus river. Therefore, this paper intends to examine Pakistan’ s activities on the securitization of India’ s water activities on the Indus River through theory of securitization. The findings of this study show that Pakistani actors have used linguistic structures, including framing and metaphor, to securitize their shared river waters with India.

Bioterrorism is a universal phenomenon. The importance of security threats of this kind of terrorism and its widespread and harmful effects that is created by abusing poisonous, bacterial and biological factors intend to kill or suffer humans, animals, and plants, result in the new attention to the notion of bioterrorism and providing the micro and micro legal– political solutions to combat it in the national and international levels. Because of this, the international instruments pay special attention to it and have made the countries provide legislations against it. Therefore, Iranian law in some micro-legal instruments such as fifth development program, imposing the duty of preparation a draft in combat of the bioterrorism to Ministry of Intelligence. In this way, the paper tries to evaluate the notion of bioterrorism and guiding approach to international instruments and Iranian criminal policy. The research is based on the data library and finally concludes that although Iranian penal policy in the light of international instruments’ criminal guiding approach, has taken positive steps toward the combat of bioterrorism, still there are some deficiencies in this policy.