فصلنامه راهبرد دفاعی
پیاپی 33 (تابستان 1390)

The events of 9/11 not only showed that NATO under American influence has the desire to expand, but also resulted in the formation of new geopolitics related to I.R. Iran’s national security. Putting Iran in the axis of evil, and America's campaign to Afghanistan and Iraq within the framework of NATO’s mission and international coalition are among the transformations that has led Iran to play an active role in strategic areas. Also, the developments in NATO’s doctrine, which changed from the post-Cold War political-security aspects to military approach- a strategy with aggressive orientation after 9/11 are one of the reasons for the dynamics of the Union. Since 2007, despite growing tensions among the members, over global and regional missions, increasing environmental, computer, terrorism, WMD threats and economic problems, encouraged members to adopt a participative approach. Affected by these changes, Iran's security environment came in the range of NATO’s objectives.

The purpose of this article is to solve the problem of lacking indigenous indicator. The aim of the paper is to extract the indicators of measuring external security and assessing current status of I. R. Iran’s security. To do this, it has been attempted to answer this fundamental question that what are the appropriate indicators for measuring the external security of I. R. Iran? And how the current status of Iran's external security is?With the help of qualitative method and systematic analysis, this research has been done to extract I. R. Iran’s external security indicators related to soft components of security, and with the help of case-field study and correlation-consistency method, to design an assessment pattern and security measurement.The result of the paper shows that in the case of using appropriate indicators, security would be assessable. It also has shown that the measure of I. R. Iran’s external security, in the first half of 1388 has been 56.6 at a scale of zero to 100.

Arms strategy of any country is a response to regional and international threats. In some historical periods, the threats find an ultra-peripheral nature and countries which are at risk of regional threats, often face with these threats.

Soft power prepares necessary infrastructures for producing national security.The formation of regional developments in the Middle East, in the framework of Islamic awakening movement and looking for identity, is a function of components of influential actors’ soft power in regional and international politics. No doubt, developments in the Middle East are under the influence of a variety of perceptual, analytical and discourse framework. This article is based on the discourse of Islamic identity; A discourse which is based on norm-oriented approaches in structural attitude. So, it can be considered as an effective factor in expanding social revolutions in Middle East. Norm-oriented theories emphasize on discourse structures in social revolutions. Discourse structure is formed gradually and will be on the basis of experiences from other countries.The rise of resistance identity is a symbol of soft power to shape social movements and regional revolutions in the Arab spring.

This Article tries to examine the relationship between "new public diplomacy" and "comprehensive defense". New communicative media, especially "web2", which provided necessary context for virtual networks and social movements are the most important technologies that developed the nature of many concepts and functions such as "diplomacy" and "defense". These media have characteristics that, if exploited properly, comprehensive defense in the new circumstances will be possible. In the new public diplomacy, a wide range of people can play a role in defending national and security interests of their country, by joining social networks.If in an official diplomacy the relationship is between official representatives of the governments, and in a traditional public diplomacy a government addresses groups, organizations and individuals of a specific community, in new public diplomacy, a broad network of people in two communities or at the international level address each other or others.The article explains the need for the mentioned media and the way of using them in a comprehensive defense in light of new public diplomacy.

Audience study and understanding the goals, preferences and needs of the audience at the War Museum not only helps to convey historical and cultural heritage, patriotic values and national solidarity, but also can increase the attractions of these museums along with other museums so that it can cause the country’s economic prosperity and income. In its political-security relations with regional countries, Islamic Republic of Iran has always tried to be friendly, ensure them about its intentions, but military-security events in recent decades caused regional threats to I. R. Iran’s security. This paper aims to examine Iranian security and arms strategy, and to answer this question that regarding to regional threats around and opportunities ahead, what kind arms and security strategy will be taken by Iran to promote its position and to protect its security at regional and global levels.

This article aims to identify the effective factors in the process of militarization of Caspian Sea. By militarization, Caspian policy entered a new round, a process which started from 2002. Until this year, the military power of the countries in the region was limited to a coast guard, but in 2002, because of the tensions over the legal regime of the Caspian Sea, especially after Russia’s naval maneuver, trends among the neighbors for establishing naval forces came to the life. Since that time, the amount of investments and initiatives for developing military power at Sea has been increased in these countries. In addition, western countries, especially America, has been influential in this process. Given the tendency of these countries to weaken the position of Russia and Iran in the region, through strengthening countries like Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, Washington tried to give the necessary capital and equipment to these countries.Generally, the dispute over the legal status of Caspian Sea, regional competitions and ultimately, the competition between Russia and America are the most important effective variables to the militarization of Caspian Sea.