Volume 4 (2020)
Volume 3 (2019)
Volume 2 (2018)
Volume 1 (2017)
Number of Articles: 74
1. Oil Price Shocks and Russia’s Economic Growth: The Impacts and Policies for Overcoming Them
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Summer 2017, , Pages 1-31
Abstract
Considering Russia’s rich and vast oil resources, this country is one of the world’s greatest producers and exporters of this nonrenewable energy resource, and like other ... Read More
2. Religious-Secular Cleavage and Political Stability in Israel
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Winter 2018, , Pages 1-33
Abstract
Due to its artificial and unnatural structure, Israeli society has since the beginning of its establishment, been a context for the emergence of different kinds of cleavages and tensions. ... Read More
3. Reassessing Britain’s Withdrawal from the Persian Gulf in 1971 and its Military Return in 2014
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Winter 2019, , Pages 1-44
Abstract
The primary concern of this research is to reassess the British foreign policy, focusing on its military withdrawal in 1971 from the Persian Gulf and its return in 2014. The Persian ... Read More
4. The United States National Security Strategy under Bush and Obama: Continuity and Change
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Autumn 2017, , Pages 175-197
Abstract
The foreign policy of states determines the way they behave in the international arena. Accurate analysis of official foreign policy documents of a country is helpful in that it shows ... Read More
5. Muslims’ Experience of Islamophobia in Major Scottish Cities: Different Experiences and Diverse Perceptions
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Spring 2018, , Pages 189-223
Abstract
According to some researchers (Hopkins, 2004a; Hopkins & Smith, 2008), there is a perception among certain Muslims that anti-Muslim racism is higher in areas where there is a high ... Read More
6. Political Culture and Iran`s Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of Iran`s Foreign Policy during Ahmadinejad and Rouhani
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Spring 2018, , Pages 225-245
Abstract
Political culture represents a society`s widely held, traditional values and its fundamental practices; foreign policy decision makers tend to make policies that are compatible with ... Read More
7. Fragile States: the Birthplace of Non-State Armed Groups in West Asia
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Spring 2019, , Pages 233-270
Abstract
Due to both internal and external factors, Western Asia has long been suffering from security tribulations and political instability. The institution of various military and militia ... Read More
8. The Different Layers of Islam in Interaction with Politics: a Comparative Analysis of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey
Volume 2, Issue 3 , Summer 2018, , Pages 383-406
Abstract
This study attempts to assess the different ways through which Islam as a religion can impact politics. In fact, the notion that is collectively labeled as Islam and its re-interpretation ... Read More
9. Obama’s Counterterrorism Policy and the Washington Post’s Editorials: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Media-State Interaction
Volume 3, Issue 3 , Summer 2019, , Pages 445-481
Abstract
American mass media’s relation with the US government in foreign policy decision-making has been the subject of numerous studies in the interdisciplinary field of political ... Read More
10. Knowledge Politics of the American Academia on Women’s Citizenship in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Islamoromic vs. Islamoveritic Understandings
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Autumn 2018, , Pages 573-603
Abstract
Islam’s view on gender issues and the status of Muslim women has been growingly among the controversial topics in the American universities in recent decades. The rise of political ... Read More
11. Iran’s Resistance Economy and Regional Integration
Volume 3, Issue 4 , Autumn 2019, , Pages 649-685
Abstract
Iran’s ‘resistance economy’ is sometimes presented as defensive strategy. Despite Washington’s ‘New Middle East’ wars and the rapid evaporation ... Read More
12. Kyoto’s Glocal Identity: Establishing Balance between Identity Change and Persistence
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Summer 2017, , Pages 33-59
Abstract
Kyoto is a miniature of Japan; through centuries of experience and persistence, it has maintained the symbols of the country’s civil and cultural identity. The city has demonstrated ... Read More
13. Iran’s Foreign Policy Approaches toward International Organizations
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Winter 2018, , Pages 35-68
Abstract
Iran’s foreign policy toward international organizations has always oscillated between divergence and convergence, depending on the status of the country in question and the statesmen's ... Read More
14. Iran and Security Complex in the Persian Gulf
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Winter 2019, , Pages 45-73
Abstract
This article enters into the debate on the link between security and identity by looking at the security context in the states surrounding the Persian Gulf, particularly Iran. Earlier ... Read More
15. A Theoretical Study of Solidarity in American Society: The Case of the “Ground Zero Mosque” Controversy
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Autumn 2017, , Pages 199-222
Abstract
The paper uses the case study of the controversy regarding the construction of a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in Manhattan, New York, to analyze the different ... Read More
16. The Impact of Israeli Think Tanks on Israel's Foreign Policy (2006-2017)
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Spring 2018, , Pages 247-285
Abstract
In the modern world, government policy makers engage in the decision making process to pursue the interests of their countries. Think tanks play a significant role in this complicated ... Read More
17. 'The Cup of Kindness’? Dominant Social Norms and Muslims’ Social Integration in Scotland
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Spring 2019, , Pages 271-304
Abstract
Since the 9/11 bombings in New York, and the 7/7 bombings in London, Muslims’ integration in the UK has been under intense scrutiny. Muslim integration, however, has long been ... Read More
18. Reasons behind the Failure of Right to Peace in Today’s World
Volume 2, Issue 3 , Summer 2018, , Pages 407-443
Abstract
The right to peace and global security are considered as critical rights and necessities for human life, the realization of which requires support of the global society. Initially, ... Read More
19. Fiction and Politics of Islamophobia: A Case Study of Greg Hrbek’s Not on Fire, but Burning
Volume 3, Issue 3 , Summer 2019, , Pages 483-516
Abstract
Islamophobia is defined as a closed-minded hatred, fear or prejudice toward Islam and Muslims that result in discrimination, marginalization, and oppression. This phenomenon was strengthened ... Read More
20. The Prospect of the United States and Saudi Arabia Relations In light of Khashoggi Murder
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Autumn 2018, , Pages 605-632
Abstract
given to the Pivot to Asia doctrine in the Obama and Trump Administrations, the decline of Washington's dependence on Saudi oil, as well as some important events such as the murdering ... Read More
21. Congressional Foreign Policy Actors on the Two Iran Banking Sanction Laws during the Obama Administration
Volume 3, Issue 4 , Autumn 2019, , Pages 687-730
Abstract
The United States and Iran as former allies turned into adversaries after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Since then the United States has tried to contain Iran as a state ... Read More
22. An Analysis of the Patterns of Policymaking in Iraq’s National Security During the Period of the Ba’ath Party’s Rule
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Summer 2017, , Pages 61-84
Abstract
Relying on its partisan principles and values, the Ba’athist regime– the period when Saddam Hussein was in charge in Iraq– sought a powerful government. Not respecting ... Read More
23. Dearborn-Detroit Michigan: Ethnography of Faith and the U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy Axis
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Winter 2018, , Pages 69-86
Abstract
The relationship between ethnic and faith communities in the United States and domestic forces relating to a converging and diverging social contract on the one hand, and US foreign, ... Read More
24. The Rise and Fall of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Winter 2019, , Pages 75-107
Abstract
This article examines the rise and fall of the Peace Process and questions the reason for which the United States of America was successful in bringing the two sides to the negotiating ... Read More
25. A Review of the Performance of the International Atomic Energy Agency Regarding Pakistan’s Nuclear Activities
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Autumn 2017, , Pages 223-253