From Empires to Systems and Back to Empires? System Paradigm in the Intellectual Traditions of Iran, China and Russia
From Empires to Systems and Back to Empires? System Paradigm in the Intellectual Traditions of Iran, China and Russia

Oleg Pakhomov

Volume 7, Issue 4 , October 2023, , Pages 785-807

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2024.368510.1394

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
Ukraine War as Fought on Iran’s X
Ukraine War as Fought on Iran’s X

Ehsan Shahghasemi

Volume 7, Issue 3 , July 2023, , Pages 573-607

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2024.369923.1402

Abstract
  When the war broke out in Ukraine, this eastern European country started a successful resistance that pinned down the Russian army in many regions and created a stalemate that has sparked ...  Read More
Economic Resilience in Challenging Times: A Crossroads of Russia's Experience and Prospects for Iran
Economic Resilience in Challenging Times: A Crossroads of Russia's Experience and Prospects for Iran

Ehsan Rasoulinezhad; Parisa Sabri

Volume 6, Issue 4 , October 2022, , Pages 805-833

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2023.361967.1360

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
Sino-Russian Energy Relations: Dimensions and Prospects
Sino-Russian Energy Relations: Dimensions and Prospects

Barari Khodayar; Somayyeh Shamsian

Volume 5, Issue 4 , October 2021, , Pages 659-690

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2022.336606.1271

Abstract
  Access and control of Energy has not only been historically instrumental in the sociopolitical and economic shaping of nations, but also central to the global world of politics, systems, ...  Read More
Russia and Hamas after 2006: Realities of a Questionable Relationship
Russia and Hamas after 2006: Realities of a Questionable Relationship

Hassan Ahmadian; Barari Khodayar

Volume 5, Issue 1 , January 2021, , Pages 193-223

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2022.334274.1249

Abstract
  This article aims at examining Russia's relations with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Moscow's motives and goals for the establishment and enhancement of those ties. We ...  Read More
U.S. Strategy toward Africa and Trump's Rivalry Competition: A Neo-Classical Approach
U.S. Strategy toward Africa and Trump's Rivalry Competition: A Neo-Classical Approach

Atefeh Toghyani; Amirbahram Arabahmadi

Volume 4, Issue 1 , January 2020, , Pages 177-212

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2020.304947.1160

Abstract
  This article illustrates the fact that the U.S. administration's behavior toward Africa has always been shaped by the conception of rivalries' presence, rather than the potentials of ...  Read More