فهرست مطالب seyed mehdi hosseini matin

There have been many debates and discussions about the shape of new international system and its structure in post cold war era by the scholars and writers of international relations discipline. Notwithstanding, this question continually being asked that, what kind of structure is being shaped in post cold war era and how does it impact in foreign policy behaviors of political unites in particular, the super power. It seems that, it would be possible to use Kenneth Waltz‘s theory of international politics to determine the structure of international system as unipolar and then, to explain the behavior of the major power. At the end, the out coming model will apply to the role of the United State in the post cold war era and compare the behaviors of this super power in two different eras of international System.

A decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the Arab Middle Eastern countries are under heavy internal and external pressures to initiate political and economic reforms. Saudi Arabia is one of these countries that given its geopolitical and geostrategic location, its place in the oil market and its pivotal role in the region and the Muslim World attracts more attention to its domestic developments and crises. The study of current developments demonstrates that the Saudi political system faces five types of crises, i.e. legitimacy, participation, distribution, identity and succession and the future of Saudi Arabia, particularly its foreign relations, can be understood in light of these crises. Of course, the country’s rulers have carried out certain actions to decrease the impact of the aforementioned crises, which according to the author’s appraisal, have not been capable of responding to the domestic and foreign pressures faced by the country.