فصلنامه مطالعات انقلاب اسلامی
پیاپی 65 (تابستان 1400)

This research seeks to analyze the principles and strategies of leadership of Ayatollah Khamenei (daama izzuh) with a descriptive-analytical method in which he the library method and critical discourse analysis method have been used to collect information and to analyze the data respectively; The results of the research show that the great leader has important principles in his soft and hard fields of leadership. The most important principles in soft leadership include such things as Islamism, idealism and systematization with Islamic civilization; In addition, principles such as Islamic security and authority, territorial integrity, maintaining regional and global stability, and peace have been considered; In addition to these principles, he has soft strategies such as injecting spirituality and theism, insightful view of hostility, of the world, of depicting the power of deterrence, knowledge combined with self-purity and morality, and intelligent invitation to the pure consciences of the world, as well as hard strategies such as opposing arrogance, strategic depth and resistance economics.

The doctrinal and strategic content analysis approach of history as one of the methods of analysis has been less used in history. In this research, using the many capabilities of this approach and based on the method of qualitative analysis, Ayatollah Khamenei`s book of "250-year-old man", which is about the analysis of the early history of Islam and the history of the Imamate has been evaluated. This study was followed by three results. First, it demonstrates the applicability of this approach to the analysis of history and the power of historical modeling. Second, the high level of dominance of the Supreme Leader in all three areas of history, doctrine and strategic sciences was revealed, and third, the doctrines, strategies, tactics and techniques of the Imams (as) to form a government or defend and expand it from the perspective of the Supreme Leader were expressed in the book.

The Syrian geopolitical crisis is one of the most important security challenges that has affected the Middle East over the past decade. Given the importance of this issue, the present study seeks to answer the question: how have the conflicts of the Syrian geopolitical crisis affected the national security of the Islamic Republic? The article hypothesizes that the Syrian crisis has dimensions beyond political dissatisfaction and ethnic and religious challenges, and is rooted in negative interference and geopolitical rivalries for regional and supra-regional power. Relying on the theory of threat balance, the results indicate the geopolitical threats of the Islamic Republic in the military, political, cultural, social and economic fields and consequences such as increasing ethnic and sectarian threats in the country, the emergence and strengthening of takfiri terrorist groups in Iran, increasing border threats, increasing the presence of supra-regional powers, changing the balance of regional powers and weakening the axis of resistance.

The following paper is an attempt to represent the challenges and obstacles of cultural engineering in the field of cohesion and unity in the Islamic world. This article, organized by descriptive-analytical method, and in terms of achievement or result is a research of development-applied type and in terms of research purpose is exploratory type and in terms of type of data used is a qualified one. The results of analyzing and combining the collected data show that "cultural ideological conflicts", "multiculturalism in the Islamic world", "gap between cultural changes and tactics", "sovereignty of ethnic and tribal structure", "lack of common cultural understanding of unity and cohesion", "the rule of security attitude to ethnic and religious demands" may be regarded as the important issues in the challenges facing the Islamic Republic in the cultural engineering of unity and cohesion in the Islamic world. This study considers the "feasibility of facing challenges" as one of the most important outputs of representing these challenges.

One of the most important anti-Western discourses in Iran is the discourse of Heidegger's supporters. The present study examines the main axes of the thinkers of this discourse by the method of content analysis. The theorists of this discourse first reject the foundations of Western epistemology and offer an appropriate interpretation to the religious contexts of Iranian society and consider the liberation from the crises in the West in avoiding Western ideologies and establishing a religious revolution. But in the positive stage, they did not succeed much in presenting a practical and alternative model.

The present study investigates the why of the entrance of religious organization "Islamic Education Society" as one of the leading religious groups in the field of accepting new education after the fall of Reza Shah. Findings show that this religious organization with regard to the process of social change and the need for effective presence in society and the ability to face principled and appropriate threats to the currents of thought attributed to communism and nationalism, as well as the induction of heresy such as the Baha'is, understanding the importance of accepting new education, abandoning the policy of rejecting new education, which until now was the common policy of religious people, and by building new schools and developing them, pioneered and inspired a new movement and approach in the country's educational space among religious people. puts. This research has investigated this issue with descriptive-analytical and documentary-library methods.

The resistance economy seeks to increase the country's economic power. The main issue of the research follows as: what mechanisms does the system of optimal economic culture have in a resistance economy? The research hypothesis indicates that the culture of a favorable economy has the capacity to provide the ground for the realization of a resistance economy. In order to prove this hypothesis, using the systematic method, while explaining the components of public economy and the desired economic culture in the resistance economy, the economic culture-building strategies and systemic mechanism, the effect of these components on the realization of the resistance economy were explained. Theoretical and practical evidence suggests that this culture leads to the enhancement of dynamic and unbreakable growth, justice and the rule of Islamic values, and thus helps to increase the degree of economic resistance of the country.

On the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Radio Farda website, as one of the oppsite  mainstream media against the Islamic Republic, with the aim of presenting its arbitrary reading and narration of the history of the Islamic Revolution, performed a series of dialogues with political and cultural activists entitled as "forty years, forty dialogues". In this research, the main effort has been focused on understanding how Radio Farda is representing and framing the history of the Islamic Revolution to public opinion. In the position of data collection, the text of the conversations was collected and in the framework of the interpretive approach, using the method of content analysis, the network of concepts and themes was examined. The analysis of these interviews shows that the arbitrary imagery representation and construction of the second Pahlavi period, along with an inverse introduction of the revolutionaries and Imam Khomeini and the denigration of the Islamic Republic, formed the main theme of these interviews and ultimately the unity of the opposition of the IRI was introduced as an inevitable necessity for getting out of the current situation.

The United States, pursuiting its exploitative goals, seeks media, cultural, and political dominance in South America. The Islamic Republic also, following its seeks lofty goals in full coordination with the nations and governments of the region, encounters the influence of the media and to train forces with revolutionary thinking. The main question of the research is: what strategies and media strategies has the Islamic Republic used to export the Islamic Revolution and confront the United States in South America? Researchers have followed this path through interviews with media, political, and diplomatic experts in the South American region and found that, given the geographical remoteness and sense of nationalism active in the region, issuing or strengthening a discourse with remote management may be taken as a viable option. To this end, the media strengthens anti-American political groups through the media, articulating the colonial goals of the United States in the form of media production, producing content from the history and plunder of the United States in the region, producing content to restore national self-confidence, supporting those opposed to US policies and networking of opposite groups to produce media products have suggested by experts.

The political unity of Muslims has been one of the concerns of reformers, including Imam Khomeini. Because it increases the power and promotes the position of Muslims in the international system. On the other hand, according to the nation-state system governing the world, "national interests" are considered the guiding principles of states in international relations and it is pretended that the formation of a single Islamic nation is in conflict with the national interests of Islamic countries. The purpose of this study is to investigate the position of the single Islamic nation, national interests and the relationship between national interests and the formation of a single Islamic nation in Imam Khomeini's thought. The research findings show that the two concepts of a single Islamic nation and national interests are in addition to being deeply connected and related to each other. It also guarantees the protection of the national interests of Islamic countries.