نشریه مطالعات ملی
سال دهم شماره 3 (پیاپی 39، پاییز 1388)

In ancient Iran finding a site for the capital and its transfering has usually taken place in order to solve the problems of political geography as well as the geopolitical problems of the country. Thus, finding a site for the capital and its transfering has been the most important geopolitical approach of present states in political organization of territorial space, in order to control of country' geography and making relation among places with cultural and identity spatial-geographical mechanism. Whereas, national support has been seven times mainspring of finding a site for the capital in national core area of state, and according to historical-civil, cultural and economical potentials of geographical place, better control and management of the country at least has caused eleven times finding a site for the capital in a core area position and also geopolitical problems and peripheral threats has caused twelve times finding a site for the capital in a geopolitical and geo-strategic location. So, the main thrust of the present paper is to discuss the principal factors affecting the process of site finding for capitals in ancient Iran and their role in Iranian identity genesis.

Developments in the cultural Iran has been heavily influenced by international system, and competitions of the great powers. In the recent two centuries, this factor has put negative impact on the convergence and integration among the nations of the Cultural Iran region and was the cause of disintegration in this region. Therefore, the important effect of the international system in this region is creating differences and disintegration. With regard to the essential changes at different levels (national, regional and international levels) after the cold war, and the common culture and civilization of the nations in the Cultural Iran, the backgrounds of integration in this region is prepared. Considering these prere quisites, the nations in this region can influence the divergence and strengthen the integration at the regional level. In this article, with a look at the role of international system to prevent the convergence, I argue about the impacts of the international system to create disintegration in the Cultural Iran. Then, with reviewing cultural factors, I explain how the common culture in the Cultural Iran can create convergence and integration among the nations in this region.

Caucasus is one of the first areas that is in Cultural Iran domain not only from historical and cultural view, but also from geographic view where 17 provinces of it had included before two centuries ago, in territorial integrity of Iran. AzerbaijanRepublic has the greatest historical, religious and cultural links with Iranian culture and civilization as well as the most cultural tensions with the Iranian culture and history, and we are seeing a mass volume of cultural and artistic activities evading Iran and occasionally to oppose Iran, in this neighbor country. History and systematic activities and some of the cases that should cared about at the domain of issues related AzerbaijanRepublic. This article is providing samples of appearing of systematic activities in the cultural, artistic and historical arenas while it is doing content analysis of samples and is proving Author's claim about history and of such activities that such avtivities are systematic.

Architecture is an effective art to bringing in to view the public’s culture in every time of history. Society in that people experience the cultural space can development in it’s national identity. In this century national identity is very important for protect the nation’s frontiers.Architecture as a sign of a nation’s identity is effective. It indicates the people’s life style of each society. Environment and culture have countermeasure impression each other. One of important side of nation identity is culture identity. That architecture as an effective factore in culture is momentous. Nationalaschitecture is risen from national culture. In other side Iranian’s as a culture that is interrupted has been examined in this article. This article researches context moving to international architect and it’s role in admeasurements Iranian identity. In this way after perusing culture identity and Iranian culture’s role is to being globalization and architectural effect in society culture and needs to creating international architecture at the end present a viewpoint for vital international architecture the way of search is descriptive and the instrument of research of research is librarian method. In the other wise the question is why in the period that culture didn’t research we have Iranian culture but now we don’t have familiar space.

This research is based on the descriptive study of the structure of social relations in Mazandaran’s high school in 2007 from the student’s viewpoint and educational staff. The aims of this research are: to identify the role of the social structure in making student’s attitude to autority, role of high school in students attention globalization and finally the recognition of the role of hidden curriculum in strengthening student’s national identity. In this present research had been used from descriptive method. and also it has been done among 384 samples of students and 377 educational staff. The research’s tools are two types of questionnaires for students and staff that have been used after determining their validity and reliability. The results of the research is achieved by SPSS software and X2 test. Some of the results are: The students (more than the staff) believe that the structure of the existing social relations in high school have an effective role on making student’s attitude to majesty. About half of the students and staff believe that role of hidden curriculum of schools is high in strengthening national identity. The students (nearly more than the staff) believe that the hidden curriculum have an effective role on student’s globalization.

National and ethnic identities are very serious subjects in the late decades especially in countries that have many minorities. There are many factors that influence these subjects, but globalization is very important in this process. Some researchers believe that ethnicity and ethnic identities have inevitably grown in globalization process, but the other researchers disagreed with this idea, and believe that perhaps we will witness national solidarity and national identity stronger than past, and individuals have combined identity and there isn't any conflict between national and ethnic identities. The main objective of present research is the study of relationship between national and ethnic identities of Azari, Kurd and Arab students in the state universities at 1387 and relation between both identities (national and ethnic) with ''relative deprivation" feeling. The sample size of this survey was 687. In general, the results showed that there is a positive and medium relationship between "national and ethnic identities" and there isn't conflict between them. Also findings showed that there is a negative and high relation between "national identity" and "relative deprivation feeling" and there is a positive and low relation between "ethnic identity" and" relative deprivation feeling".

Constitutional era has always been known as a turning point in contemporary history of Iran, during which Iranian society have changed from different dimensions. In terms of identity the comprising elements of Iranian identity have also changed. Persian language and literature like previous eras have played significant roles in the construction and deepening of national identity of Iranian during the contemporary history. This article attempts to investigate the elements of national identity in Aref Qazvini’s poems using content analysis method. Therefore, elements of national identity, including ancient culture and values, religious values and western values are investigated in relation to some variables. The study shows that Aref Qazvini paid particular attention to elements of Iranian national identity. Despite changes in the comprising elements of Iranian identity, national ancient values have retained their position.