gholamali soleymani

Social capital is one of the most important issues in the corona pandemic and how governments respond to this crisis is of great significance. One of the main questions related to the subject of social capital is how the media influence. This is the action that must naturally have a unified procedure and a single rationality in critical situations. Undoubtedly, the lack of such unity and rationality has adverse effects on the social capital of countries. The present study tries to find an answer to the question of how the performance of Iranian state media in the first week of the Corona crisis was related to the country's social capital, In this regard, it was attempted to provide a conceptual framework and explain the "impact of media on social capital". To collect the required data, the state news agencies IRNA, IRIB and Fars were investigated. For this purpose, using the content analysis method, the performance of the above three news agencies were examined in two issues: attracting public participation in the face of the crisis as well as the degree of trust in the performance of the government (executive branch) in critical situations. Regarding the two issues of public participation and trust in the performance of the Eleventh Government, the findings revealed the role of interfering variables on the performance of the media can be observed to some extent. These variables were seen more in the category of trust in government performance than in the category of public participation.

The behavior of the media in any country in the face of natural and unnatural crises is one of the important issues in crisis management. The lack of uniformity in the performance of the media in critical situations challenges the management of public opinion. In this study, by asking the question of how the Iranian state media performed in the first week of the Corona crisis, an attempt was made to provide a conceptual framework and explain the "role of the media in the crisis", the performance of three state news agencies IRNA, IRIB AND FNA Be investigated. For this purpose, using the quantitative content analysis method, the performance of the above three news agencies on the type of strategy chosen to deal with the crisis was examined. The findings show that all three news agencies, from a few days after the onset of the crisis, shifted from a "passive" strategy to an "active" strategy and mobilized most of their capacities to control the crisis.

Iraq is one of the most heterogeneous ethnic and linguistic countries in the geopolitical Middle East. The provocative actions of former Iraqi officials, the continuation of political instability, the emergence of favorable conditions for the birth and action of takfiri and extremist groups, and the presence of supra-regional powers are among the issues that pose a challenge and threaten the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Is considered. Post-Saddam Iraq should be considered the center of Shiite power and influence, because powerful currents such as the supreme authority of the Shiites, Sadr and other Shiite political spectrums have high influence and power in the Iraqi political current. The rise of ISIS and its rise to power in Iraq and the formation of a security crisis in Iraq and the high probability of its spread to neighbors, including Iran, led the Islamic Republic of Iran to take an active strategy to face this regional and global security crisis. According to the above issues, the research questions are as follows: 1- What role did Iran play in defeating ISIS? 2- What are the sources of Iran's power in Iraq and how do these resources help Iran to cooperate and strategically ally with post-ISIL Iraq? 2. What has been the position of Iraqi political parties and popular mobilization groups in the country in terms of strategic unity and cooperation? The purpose of this article is to identify the sources of Iranian power in Iraq for proper strategic management and achievement in post-ISIL Iraq; The method used in this study for analysis and conclusion, descriptive-analytical method and its theoretical framework is intelligent power.

The study of decision-making in foreign policy is the first step to understnding the meaning and complexity of the actions in the international system. The discussion of what the rational and irrational decisions are, have so far raused numerous intellectual debates in the international relations. Some scholars focus and insist on the definition of rational decisions while others list what irrational decison are. Regardless of the above debate, this study aims to address the constraints and obstacles of the realization of the ideal type of rational decision-making in foreign policy. The research question is about the assumptions of rational model decision-making in foreign policy methodologicaly in practice. In response to the above question, relying on the documentary method of collecting data and applying analytical method, the author believes that the rational model in the the methodological aspect has three kinds of constraints including environmental barriers, cognitive, and emotional and Nervous ones.

Parties, as one of the most important social forces, are formed on the basis of social gaps and seek to manage them. A few societies can be found that has no social gaps. Therefore, the existence of parties as the mechanism for managing these gaps in all countries is clearly felt necessary. In general, the social gaps, in terms of the nature and type, can be classified into five categories of political, economic, cultural, ethnic, and religious gaps. In Turkey, as a legacy of a plural society, there are several social cleavages that are generally active. That is, it contains the three elements of political awareness, organized structure, and political action simultaneously. The purpose of this study is addressing the Justice and Development Party (AKP) experience in managing the social gaps by examining the historical process of the formation of party programs based on the existing gaps in the country. It seems that the AKP, by focusing on three categories of economic, ethnic, and religious cleavages, plays an important role in preventing and reducing the politicization of gaps. It has been done by expanding and diversifying social bases. The success of the party in several elections and expanding the domain of party voters in recent years can be considered as clear evidence of the AKP’s success.

Along with the victory of Islamic Revolution, a fundamental change has occurred in Iran's foreign policy. But neglecting the domain of foreign policy and international relations in the study of the role of political system domain, confront the foreign policy study domain of Islamic Republic Of Iran with special difficulties that in fact leads to the weakness in conceptualization in this domain. With regard to the area of foreign policy analysis and the achievements of this sub-domain, this article aims to answer these basic questions that: what is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign policy decision-making model? Answering this question requires considering different effective levels in the analysis of foreign policy that the present study, examines this subject in three levels of decision-maker, decisionmaking structure and decision-making orientation of foreign policy as main effective elements in foreign policy decision-making and their role in foreign policy decision-making, hoping that it can illustrate the action and decision-making logic and also effective structural and organizational factors affecting on the Islamic republic of iran’s foreign policy.