World Sociopolitical Studies

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1. Creating A New Anglo-Saxon Empire: A Post-Colonial Analysis of Alfred Milner’s Constructive Imperialism

Ali Zeraatpisheh; Mohammad Marandi; Maryam Soltan Beyad

Volume 4, Issue 3 , Summer 2020, Pages 401-437

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.320601.1204

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At the end of the 19th century the British Empire faced numerous challenges, both external and internal. The cultural and political elite from across the Empire tried to find a solution ... Read More

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2. Power from Revolution: The Configuration and Evolution of Iran’s Political Identity Reflected in the Supreme Leaders’ Hajj Messages

Mohammad Samiei; Na Shao-Qian

Volume 4, Issue 3 , Summer 2020, Pages 439-472

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.313660.1183

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This research sheds light on what has constituted and defined Iran’s postrevolutionary political identity and provides insights into its development with important socio-political ... Read More

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3. EU Economic & Financial Sanctions against Iran and their Human Rights Implications

Roxana Niknami

Volume 4, Issue 3 , Summer 2020, Pages 473-506

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2020.303333.1151

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Since the advent of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the country has been continuously subject to severe sanctions by the Western countries, especially the United States. In all these ... Read More

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4. A Criminological Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic with a Comparative Perspective Based on Iran’s and World’s Data

MEHRDAD RAYEJIAN ASLI

Volume 4, Issue 3 , Summer 2020

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.321030.1205

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The present research explores some of the most significant aspects of COVID-19 outbreak from the perspective of criminology and from a comparative viewpoint between Iran’s and ... Read More

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5. The British Self and Continental Other: The Question of British National Identity in the 2016 Referendum

Fatemeh Salkhori; Mohammad reza Saeidabadi

Volume 4, Issue 3 , Summer 2020

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.323965.1222

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The UK’s departure from the EU is a pivotal moment in the history of Europe. The United Kingdom and the European Union has a longstanding relationship going back to 1973; however, ... Read More

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6. Systematic Analysis of State-Nation Building and Political Development in Afghanistan: A Critical Approach to the Bonn Agreement and the Doctrine of Liberal Democracy from 2002 to 2021

rohollah eslami; ebrahim forozesh

Volume 4, Issue 3 , Summer 2020

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.322489.1211

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By withdrawing from Afghanistan, the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended inthe 1990s. Throughout that decade, western governments forgot the people of Afghanistan.But the ... Read More By withdrawing from Afghanistan, the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended inthe 1990s. Throughout that decade, western governments forgot the people of Afghanistan.But the 1998 attack on the U.S. interests in Africa and al-Qaeda attacks of the September 11,2001 reintroduced the foreign aggression of the Western governments’ coalition againstAfghanistan. In the late 2001, NATO countries led by the United States brought down theTaliban regime. Concomitantly, the UN conducted a conference in Bonn, Germany in whichpolitical and paramilitary groups agreed to form an inclusive government without presenceof the Taliban. The Bonn Agreement contents show that most of its principles are based onthe doctrine of Liberal Democracy. Accordingly, in most of the ratified articles of the EighthConstitution of Afghanistan the doctrine of liberal democracy is reflected. In a countrywhere many political regimes and systems were experienced, the effectiveness of LiberalDemocracy doctrine was expected. Meanwhile, Liberal Democracy faced challenges andnation-state building development process witnessed deficiencies. The present paper usessystemic analysis of the liberal nation-state (system input, policy design, policyimplementation, evaluation and outcome) to respond the research question. The question is,how have the nation-state building process and political development in Afghanistan beenaffected by the Bonn Agreement and liberal democracy doctrine? And has that led to thedeficiencies in nation-state building and political development in the country?Hypothetically, nation-state building and political development in Afghanistan based on theBonn Agreement suffered from deficiencies due to the following reasons: disregarding thehistorical-traditional contexts of Afghanistan, the weak presence of liberal democrats inpower, disregard for the demands of the fragmented society, the continuation of nationalistpolicies, and the incorrect public-private divide in the liberal structure of democracy.

Book Review

7. Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance

Ehsan Rasoulinezhad

Volume 4, Issue 3 , Summer 2020

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.322336.1210

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Book Review

8. The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World after Brexit

Elham Abedini

Volume 4, Issue 3 , Summer 2020

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.325402.1226

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Book Review

9. China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative, Africa, and the Middle East: Feats, Freezes, and Failures, by Jean-Marc F. Blanchard (ED)

Maziar Mozaffari Falarti; Behzad Abdollahpour

Volume 4, Issue 3 , Summer 2020

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.326566.1231

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1. Brexit and the English School of International Relations: A Theoretical Study

Mohammad Reza Saeid Abadi; Sam Mohammadpour

Volume 4, Issue 2 , Spring 2020, , Pages 213-240

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.318224.1196

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By causing a serious gap in the optimistic literature on European integration processes, Brexit has provided numerous challenges for international relations theorists. In ... Read More

2. Iran’s Resistance Economy and Regional Integration

Tim Anderson

Volume 3, Issue 4 , Autumn 2019, , Pages 649-685

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2020.302621.1148

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Iran’s ‘resistance economy’ is sometimes presented as defensive strategy. Despite Washington’s ‘New Middle East’ wars and the rapid evaporation ... Read More

3. Portrayal of Muslims in Bollywood: Case-Study of the Tanhaji Movie

Hamideh Molaei; Sahar Hussain Babaei

Volume 4, Issue 2 , Spring 2020, , Pages 379-400

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.314905.1185

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This paper aims to investigate the portrayals of Hindu-Muslim relations in recent Bollywood movies with a specific emphasis on the Tanhaji movie. The movie narrates and depicts ... Read More

4. The Jewish Community in Contemporary Iran: A New Analytic Approach

Monica Mereu

Volume 3, Issue 4 , Autumn 2019, , Pages 763-787

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2020.304193.1156

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This paper takes a broad and novel approach to analysing the Iranian Jewish community of Iran, both as a distinct group and as a constituent part of Iran’s wider population ... Read More

5. Medical Tourism Opportunities: Iran as a Destination Country for Azerbaijani Medical Tourists

Kambiz Mokhtari; Mohammad Mohammadzadeh

Volume 3, Issue 4 , Autumn 2019, , Pages 789-837

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2020.300095.1140

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The medical tourism industry comprises a combination of tourism and medical services and has attracted the attention of most developed and developing countries during the ... Read More

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1. Dialogic democracy as a substitute for discourses propagating autocracy or violence in Afghanistan: A Case Study of Soltanzade’s Brazen Bulls

Zohheh Ramin; Amirhossein Effatian

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 21 December 2020

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2020.309515.1175

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Afghanistan is a country besieged by years of instability and unrest as a result of the weak governments that came to power especially after King Zahir. Mohammad Asef Soltanzade’s ... Read More

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2. Bilateral Trade Potentials in Iran-Russia Relations: A Case Study of Food Trade

Tohid Asadi; Nahid Pourrostami; Fereshteh Abniki

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 11 July 2021

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.319781.1217

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Signing a preferential trade agreement between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has created a suitable context for the expansion of trade interactions between the countries ... Read More

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3. History and Political Geography of Central Europe: Explaining the Rise of Euroscepticism and Nativism in Visegrad 4 countries.

Seyed Nader Nourbakhsh; Seyed Abbas Ahmadi; Qiuomars Yazdanpanah Dero; Abdolreza Faraji Rad

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 22 August 2021

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.322264.1209

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The rise of the far right is one of the significant challenges facing European countries, the growing Eurosceptic and nativist attitudes in Central Europe has resulted in transforming ... Read More

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4. Anomie and Peace: A Cross-National Study

Mahdi Karimi; Tohid Jafari-Koshki

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 22 August 2021

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.326411.1229

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In today’s world which is rife with civil wars, terrorist activities and other different forms of violence, peace has complex nature affected by different social, economic, cultural, ... Read More

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5. THE IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS ON GLOBALIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS OF ASIA

Ehsan Rasoulinezhad; Sanaz Karimi Vala; Olga Gennadevna Orlova

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 09 October 2021

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.327812.1234

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It is generally accepted that the COVID-19 is one of the most serious challenges the countries have faced since the end of World War II. The coronavirus as an external shock has reshaped ... Read More

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6. The Construction of Islamic Feminism in Iran: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Zanan and Zanan-e-Emruz Magazines

Zohreh Nosrat Kharazmi; Fatemeh Ghasempour; Zinat Motahari; Hannaneh Nosrat Kharazmi

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 28 November 2021

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.326604.1232

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Islamic feminism is one of the movements that developed in reaction to the revival of political Islam post Islamic Revolution in Iran (1979). The present study attempts to seize the ... Read More

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7. Towards Liberalization: A Study of Indian Experience, 1947–1991

Mohammad Ali Mousavi; Tohid Asadi

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 29 November 2021

http://dx.doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2021.332814.1246

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Following the independence of 1947, India adhered to a mixed model of nationalist and socialist policies in the early years, with protectionism and closed-borders attitude dominating ... Read More

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1. Creating A New Anglo-Saxon Empire: A Post-Colonial Analysis of Alfred Milner’s Constructive Imperialism

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2. Power from Revolution: The Configuration and Evolution of Iran’s Political Identity Reflected in the Supreme Leaders’ Hajj Messages

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3. EU Economic & Financial Sanctions against Iran and their Human Rights Implications

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4. A Criminological Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic with a Comparative Perspective Based on Iran’s and World’s Data

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5. The British Self and Continental Other: The Question of British National Identity in the 2016 Referendum

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6. Systematic Analysis of State-Nation Building and Political Development in Afghanistan: A Critical Approach to the Bonn Agreement and the Doctrine of Liberal Democracy from 2002 to 2021

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7. Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance

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8. The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World after Brexit

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9. China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative, Africa, and the Middle East: Feats, Freezes, and Failures, by Jean-Marc F. Blanchard (ED)

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1. Brexit and the English School of International Relations: A Theoretical Study

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2. Iran’s Resistance Economy and Regional Integration

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3. Portrayal of Muslims in Bollywood: Case-Study of the Tanhaji Movie

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4. The Jewish Community in Contemporary Iran: A New Analytic Approach

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5. Medical Tourism Opportunities: Iran as a Destination Country for Azerbaijani Medical Tourists

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1. Dialogic democracy as a substitute for discourses propagating autocracy or violence in Afghanistan: A Case Study of Soltanzade’s Brazen Bulls

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2. Bilateral Trade Potentials in Iran-Russia Relations: A Case Study of Food Trade

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3. History and Political Geography of Central Europe: Explaining the Rise of Euroscepticism and Nativism in Visegrad 4 countries.

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4. Anomie and Peace: A Cross-National Study

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5. THE IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS ON GLOBALIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS OF ASIA

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6. The Construction of Islamic Feminism in Iran: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Zanan and Zanan-e-Emruz Magazines

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7. Towards Liberalization: A Study of Indian Experience, 1947–1991

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