Research Paper
Beyond Territorial Colonization: A Study of Orientalist Self-Perceptions among Iranians
Beyond Territorial Colonization: A Study of Orientalist Self-Perceptions among Iranians

Shaho Sabbar; Saeed Mohammadi; Zeinab Ghasemi Tari

Volume 7, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 609-644

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2024.371527.1410

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
Research Paper
A Critique of Ziba Mir-Hosseini’s Humanistic Ethic of Social Justice
A Critique of Ziba Mir-Hosseini’s Humanistic Ethic of Social Justice

Tim Michael Orr

Volume 7, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 645-680

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2024.369212.1399

Abstract
  Ziba Mir-Hosseini employs feminist theory and global human rights principles to promote and implement legal changes to Islamic law to achieve gender equality. She proposes the pursuit ...  Read More
Review Article
Five Decades after the Coup: Revisiting Chilean-Iranian Relations under the Pinochet Regime (1973-1980)
Five Decades after the Coup: Revisiting Chilean-Iranian Relations under the Pinochet Regime (1973-1980)

Renato Velez Castro

Volume 7, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 681-711

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2024.368874.1396

Abstract
  2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the US-backed military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile, and installed a military junta led ...  Read More
Research Paper
Reflections on Cultural Imperialism: Iran’s Discourse of Misery (badbaxti)
Reflections on Cultural Imperialism: Iran’s Discourse of Misery (badbaxti)

Navid Zarrinnal

Volume 7, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 713-740

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2024.368829.1395

Abstract
  This article examines the theme of cultural imperialism through a case-study of change in nineteenth-century intellectual discourse. It analyzes an Iranian intellectual discourse, which ...  Read More
Review Article
Successes and Setbacks of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Positive Balancing with Brazil
Successes and Setbacks of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Positive Balancing with Brazil

Elaheh Nourigholamizadeh

Volume 7, Issue 4 , October 2023, Pages 741-783

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2024.371483.1409

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
Research Paper
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