A STUDY OF THE ROLE OF POLITICAL AND SECURITY FACTORS IN THE POLICYMAKING OF IRANIAN NGOS

The establishment and development of non-governmental organizations، which are considered among the mechanisms for the people’s participation at the local، national and international levels، has and continues to impact the different areas of the life of human societies. One of these impacted fields is the national security interests of the countries. For policy making in the field of these organizations it is necessary to understand different elements، especially political and security factors. This research will recognize those elements and the way in which they impact the different dimensions and levels of the national security interests of the country. The results taken from this research، which has been conducted through survey methods and on the basis of scientific documents and instruments as well as in-depth interviews، indicates that the said factors directly impacted three dimensions، namely “the idea of the state”، “the institutional expression of the state” and “the physical base of the state” of the Iranian national security interests. In this regard the highest impact of those factors can be traced to the idea of the state of national security interests.