Using the Fuzzy cognitive maps in the field of regional studies

Few decades have passed since the birth of regional studies as sub-field of political science and international relations¡ but the dominance of international relations approaches on scientific literature and research method of this scientific field in inevitable. The evolution procedure of regional studies field showed that doing research in this field may require research in history¡ political science¡ sociology¡ economics¡ geopolitics and many of other scientific tendencies that can be referred based on the case. This subject shows the difficulty of research in regional studies field. This paper is determined to introduce the Fuzzy cognitive maps as a method with capability of application in regional studies field¡ so this method can meet the researcher’s needs in the field of study of subjects without any background before¡ or entitled as a vague phenomenon. The advantage of this method firstly is the ability of recognizing the elements of vague phenomenon and helping to understanding the relations among them and secondly the derivation of the agreed point from various views about that phenomenon.