Iran, the Islamic World and Change in the Geometry of International Power

Transition Period is a key subject in the discipline of International relations and politics. At the present time, there is a consensus among academic forums about the fact that the existing order is experiencing new changes. Critics have tried to understand these changes and their impacts on general trends. Along with other transformational tendencies, the experience of the Islamic Revolution as a transformational movement advanced change in the geometry of international power from the beginning. The main question of this article is that are there any philosophical and theoretical bases for change in the international social order in Islamic Revolution and the Iran’s contexts? As a result, the main goal of this article is to explore the philosophical foundations of change desire in the Iranian culture and to build a link between these foundations and new imperatives for acting in line with changing the geometry of international power. This hypothesis assumes the existence of rich intellectual and philosophical layers in the Islamic Republic and Iran driving at active participation in the process of changing the geometry of international power. In answering the question regarding existing philosophical potentialities in Iranian and Islamic cultures in the process of changing the geometry of international power, this article relying upon the rational approach, explains resources contributing change in the existing geometry of international power in the context of Iranian cultural life. For this reason, this article claims that the notion of demanding change in various orders (general and particular) lies in the essence of the Islamic Revolution and is the product of Iranian culture and history. Another point is that demanding change paradoxically involves the recognition existing ethnicities. This can also be interpreted as a kind of invitation. This invitation includes both will to change and will to conform.