فصلنامه مطالعات روابط بین الملل
پیاپی 14 (بهار 1390)

Shahnameh is a book that explains the battle between goodness and badness which is inspired from Mazdakian and ancient Iranian belief before emerging of Islam. In the period of myths and heroes to the end of Kianian authority, this war is constantly continued. The world view of Shahnameh is a good defend in front of badness. This defend is going too continued at the high level. The extent of Shahnameh is myth; story and history which attempt to compare faces, elements, thoughts and functions into two shapes of good and bad manner of behavior. This paper investigates the major indicators of political thoughts of Ferdowsi.

The present paper tries to discover the causes of Taliban emergence. Although there are external and internal factors paving the emergence of Taliban; moreover, since external factors may be an accelerating factor, therefore, studying and discovering factors which formed Taliban are worth considering.
It seems that the way Taliban’s political beliefs, ideas and thoughts formed in political sociology has eluded researchers, or has received superficial attention. The studies in the recent years about Taliban’s emergence have focused on the external factors making Taliban’s formation. In addition, most researchers paid attention to the external factors and the theory of Islam phobia which show some drawbacks. The present study applies a theoretical framework adapted from the structural theory of Michael Krause and Conceptual theory of Max Weber from one hand and considers the role of primary and secondary channels of political socialization on the other hand, and has focused on this significant idea and ignores the evaluation of different political aspects and foreign dependency, and also the policies of the regional and world countries which have had a role in forming Taleban so as to recognize the causes of emergence of Tabelanism in Afghanistan.

This survey will analyze the U. S. foreign policy toward Iraqi Kurds in political changes in the Middle East region. Military attendance of the U.S. military forces in the north of Iraq, whether in father Bosh time or in Iraq occupation’s time by the son of Bosh simultaneously lead in increase the role of kurds in power changes in this country.
The Kurdish people have influenced in this region to the extent that they play the mediator and determiner’s roles between Iraqi Shiites and Sunnites who are two power elements in the government and the foreign policy of the U. S. could not reach to this condition without their cooperation.
For understanding to realize the American foreign policy in Iraq it seems that we should know about ethnical changes and Iraq itself is essential

Symbol, myth and ritual, the Systems of values ​​that if the political system as the tools to exercise power or control or order and social solidarity and integration used, can be carriers for this purpose well because Instead the people have beliefs and convictions.
This paper will answer the question that symbols and rituals used in radio and television programs, how to increase the legitimacy of the ruling political system is?
Research related to this article is descriptive and theoretical studies related to the "legitimacy" and "symbol and religion" has been developed.
The results showed that the national media, using tools such as symbols and procedures acceptable to the community is trying to intentionally increase the legitimacy of Alma and the system provided the system and connect people to people and leaders to strengthen the system and the role create a major field of authority to accept government has had with people.

Being situated in the Caucasus, Georgia has always been a very important region. Accordingly, since the very beginning of the independence of Georgia, Russia has always tried to follow its goals in this country. The following paper is a study about the relationship between the two countries and the disagreements that they have had so far. The researcher has tried to discuss the most significant reasons for the importance of Georgia. This is followed by a discussion on the history of the relationship between the two countries. The researcher then tries to expand on the background of the disagreement between the two countries. The paper ends with a prediction on the future of the relationship between the two countries.

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is the most prominent figure in the French sociology that put an end to the hegemony of social action and structuralize theories in the field of sociology. He propounded Structural Constructivist Theory of politics through dialectical relationships between "fields" and "habits". Bourdieu's broad socio-anthropological and interrelation approach to power stands as opposed to the traditional academic political science discipline which emphasizes on the actual and objective operation of the political institutions (one of the legacies of the behavior list school) as well as on the more visible aspects of governing operations (elections, laws, policies, parties, etc). By contrast, Bourdieu as a sociologist and anthropologist approached the topic of power by stressing the social and cultural bases of power at the micro-as well as macro- levels. Naturally, this complicated view may not neglect analyzing electoral and democratic politics as doxa (dominated common belief) in political filed.
Based on his critical view to current electoral democracies, Bourdieu emphasizes that delegation of power and political representation, despite the presence of the media and the press, inevitably leads to usurpation and manipulation of democracy. What does Bourdieu suggests as an alternative to representative democracies as a dominated doxa in political field?
Bourdieu propounds the idea of "Real Democracy" which includes different dialectical categories as an alternative way to democratization of democracy in current societies.

Societies of different social forces are formed, each of which features are important to consider each of them. The influence of social forces in society, are the elite. Despite various discussions, the image of the traditional elite and eremitism remains, and this indicates a need to study more about the issues is elite. Theories of change are many theory not separate the elite from the rule change is adopted.This article aims to examine the concept of development through case studies and theories of one of the most elite group of theorists, the V. Pareto is.

Social capital is a new concept which has been entered the field of political science from social science and has a vast potential and actual research, application, effectiveness and affectability scope in the scene of relationship between society and state. Social capital includes social relationships and networks which can create cooperation and trust feeling among members of a society. Meanwhile, the role of civil and democratic institutions and government and policy makers in opening such spaces should not be ignored. Hence, social capital is one of the most important indicators of every society’s growth and development and its comparison with other capitals reveals importance of social capital and other capitals’ dimensions and constituents. At the end of this paper relationship of social capital with investment is addressed and it is concluded that social capital promoting policies can have direct effect on society improvement.