Analysis of the Global Environmental Movement to Influence Iran on Global Governance

Given the increasing importance of the role of new social movements in the field of global governance, this article seeks to answer the fundamental question of how environmental movements, as one of the most important new social movements, can play a role in Iran's global politics. Given the fundamental impact of the approaches of the Islamic Revolution on world politics in Iran, this article focuses on how environmental movements are related to the approaches of the Islamic Revolution in the world. Therefore, according to Alain Touraine’s theoretical basics about new social movements and using a qualitative method, this paper comparatively studied three components of identity, purpose, and competitor in the Islamic Revolution and the Environmental movement as one of the new social movements in the world arena. It also extracted, compared, and examined the relations between these movement-stimulant components using categorization and encoding techniques. According to the findings of this study, Islamic Revolution has an identity, a goal and a opponent beyond environmental movement. However, there is no contradiction between their components and therefore there is an overlap between the Islamic Revolution and environmental movement in the field of global governance.