Volume 9 (2025)
Volume 8 (2024)
Volume 7 (2023)
Volume 6 (2022)
Volume 5 (2021)
Volume 4 (2020)
Volume 3 (2019)
Volume 2 (2018)
Volume 1 (2017)
Keywords = Iran
Number of Articles: 35
Political Obstacles to a Referendum in Palestine: The Case of Iran's Proposal
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 09 March 2025
Abstract
This study assesses the political challenges that hinder the implementation of a proposed referendum on Palestine, framed within Hegemonic Stability Theory (HST), which underscores ... Read More
Iran's Geopolitical Patterns in the Ukraine Crisis: A Strategic Analysis
Volume 8, Issue 4 , October 2024, , Pages 789-839
Abstract
The Russia-Ukraine war has ignited a complex geopolitical landscape with far-reaching implications. Global trade disruptions, economic strain, and heightened geopolitical tensions are ... Read More
Weathering a Global Transition: The Middle East’s Balancing Momentum
Volume 8, Issue 3 , July 2024, , Pages 465-492
Abstract
Regional trends strongly influence and are influenced by global power flows. For decades, international politics have been shaped and reshaped by a bipolar and, after the break down ... Read More
A Difficult Friendship: Elements of Continuity and Change in Iran-Iraq Relations in Post-Saddam Era
Volume 8, Issue 3 , July 2024, , Pages 615-652
Abstract
Considering that the greatest threat to Iran in the past 400 years has emerged from the geography of Iraq (from the time of the Ottoman rule and onwards), it must be noted that Iraq ... Read More
Navigating Sociopolitical Intricacies: Iran's Energy Transition Pathways Amidst Global Transformations
Volume 8, Issue 2 , April 2024, , Pages 297-334
Abstract
The global energy transition towards low-carbon systems has brought to the fore the underexplored sociopolitical dynamics shaping transition pathways in fossil fuel-dependent developing ... Read More
U.S. Maximum Pressure and the Deterrence of Iranian Missiles
Volume 8, Issue 2 , April 2024, , Pages 335-385
Abstract
Following the Islamic revolution, Iran has consistently faced threats from neighboring countries and major global powers. In response to Iran's revolutionary stance and its challenging ... Read More
Beyond Sanctions: The Resistance Economy as the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Policy Discourse for Economic Independence
Volume 8, Issue 1 , January 2024, , Pages 171-201
Abstract
This article covers the emergence of resistance economy in the Islamic Republic of Iran within the context of international sanctions, arguing that this policy ought to be understood ... Read More
Beyond Territorial Colonization: A Study of Orientalist Self-Perceptions among Iranians
Volume 7, Issue 4 , October 2023, , Pages 609-644
Abstract
While Iran was never formally colonized by Western powers, it’s governing regimes before the Islamic revolution were loyal to both the East and the West; the country was ... Read More
Successes and Setbacks of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Positive Balancing with Brazil
Volume 7, Issue 4 , October 2023, , Pages 741-783
Abstract
Formal relationship between Iran and Brazil commenced in 1903 with the signing of the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce. Since then, their bilateral relations have been shaped by political ... Read More
From Empires to Systems and Back to Empires? System Paradigm in the Intellectual Traditions of Iran, China and Russia
Volume 7, Issue 4 , October 2023, , Pages 785-807
Abstract
This paper is an attempt to reconsider the legacy of universalism of traditional empires from the perspective of systems theory. In the West, the system ideas were already present in ... Read More
Oil Issue and Discursive Shifts in Iranian Politics (1942-1952)
Volume 7, Issue 3 , July 2023, , Pages 395-446
Abstract
Following the invasion of the allied forces in September 1941, chaos and crisis characterized the Iranian socio-political life for more than a decade. The “issue of oil” ... Read More
Economic Resilience in Challenging Times: A Crossroads of Russia's Experience and Prospects for Iran
Volume 6, Issue 4 , October 2022, , Pages 805-833
Abstract
significance, as they have grappled with enduring economic and political sanctions imposed by Western powers. Over time, both Iran and Russia have confronted a series of sanctions targeting ... Read More
France-U.S. Negotiations on Iran Sanctions during the 1979 Hostage Crisis (Based on France’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs Declassified Archived Documents)
Volume 6, Issue 3 , July 2022, , Pages 411-437
Abstract
One of the most critical issues in Iran's foreign policy is European countries' foreign policy toward the Iran-US crisis. The hostage crisis in Tehran on November 4, 1979 (Aban 13, ... Read More
Pilgrimage and Conflict Resolution: The Case of Interpersonal Contact between Iranians and Iraqis in the Arbaeen Walk
Volume 6, Issue 3 , July 2022, , Pages 539-565
Abstract
Given the history of conflict between Iran-Iraq (1980-1988), the present paper investigates whether interpersonal contact between Iranians and Iraqis, through religious tourism, has ... Read More
IR in Iran and South Africa: A Comparative Study
Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2022, , Pages 197-238
Abstract
As the self-image of International Relations as a “hegemonic discipline”, under the influence of the American IR community, is questioned and challenged, the issue of “others” ... Read More
Netanyahu’s Rhetoric on Iran: Securitization or Sincere Expression of Fear
Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2022, , Pages 305-341
Abstract
Studies on securitization theory have neglected the fact that securitization is in place only when it is proven that expression of fear is insincere. A number of indicators can be retrieved ... Read More
Iran's Position in Geopolitical Competition between China and India: Emphasizing the Role of Chabahar
Volume 6, Issue 2 , April 2022, , Pages 343-369
Abstract
The geopolitical competition between India on one hand and the China-Pakistan axis, on the other hand, have made various researchers investigate the different, unknown, and influential ... Read More
Migration to Kharej: Dreamed Expectations of Iranian Migrants vs. Experienced Actualities of Living Abroad
Volume 6, Issue 1 , January 2022, , Pages 135-165
Abstract
The growing number of migrants from Iran to the Western World during the past decades represents opportunities as well as challenges for both migrants and host communities. One of the ... Read More
The Remote Higher Education over COVID-19 Pandemic: the Case Study of Provisions and Priorities of the University of Tehran's Official Website
Volume 5, Issue 2 , April 2021, , Pages 255-294
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic brought instructional and administrative possibilities and problematics in higher education internationally. In such conditions, the developing countries suffered ... Read More
Determinants of the intention of Iranian people to accept the changes of social welfare under the imposed sanctions
Volume 5, Issue 1 , January 2021, , Pages 133-156
Abstract
This research seeks to answer the question “what factors affect Iranian people’s adaptation to the changes in their social welfare under the imposed sanctions?” To ... Read More
The Construction of Islamic Feminism in Iran: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Zanan and Zanan-e-Emruz Magazines
Volume 4, Issue 4 , October 2020, , Pages 733-771
Abstract
Islamic feminism is one of the movements that developed in reaction to the revival of political Islam in post-Islamic Revolution Iran (1979). The present study attempts to seize the ... Read More
Orientalist Framing of Post-Revolutionary Iran: A Study of Iranian-American Memoirs
Volume 4, Issue 4 , October 2020, , Pages 809-840
Abstract
Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the deposition of the pro-American Pahlavi regime in Iran, an interest in the country as a mythical, complex, and conflict-ridden place has ... Read More
EU Economic & Financial Sanctions against Iran and their Human Rights Implications
Volume 4, Issue 3 , July 2020, , Pages 471-504
Abstract
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
Persian-Language Media overseas as the Western Tools of Public Diplomacy: Framing COVID-19 Pandemics in Iran by VOA and BBC
Volume 4, Issue 1 , January 2020, , Pages 1-36
Abstract
The coronavirus pandemic has attracted the international media since the first infection was identified in Wuhan, China in late 2019. Despite the similar frames all around the world, ... Read More
Congressional Foreign Policy Actors on the Two Iran Banking Sanction Laws during the Obama Administration
Volume 3, Issue 4 , October 2019, , Pages 687-730