نشریه مطالعات بین المللی
سال نهم شماره 2 (پیاپی 34، پاییز 1391)

Being the outcome of the distinguished debates of the earlier 20th century, International Relations doesnt possess any noticeable history. While the states of the South as well as the super powers are engaged in different security, economic, political and normative affairs of the international policy, this field of study has failed to notch a progress in the latter states. The states, in fact, neither make the foreign policies for the foreign countries nor do they make their domestic policies in accordance with their own states. Considering the foreign and the domestic policies as the two sides of a coin, states would meet their security, economic, welfare, technological, and political needs through the international as well as their interior arena. In this juncture, the management of the International Relations with the transcendental subject of the "foreign policy" is a necessity on which we are going to elaborate in this piece.

Different factors are shaping the interactions of countries in international relations. Having become the leverage of power as well as prosperity, the stance of a country depends on it's national and social power. Today, the power of a state is being evaluated not only on it's territorial extent or the natural resources, but also on it's hardware and software, and consequently on their influence on the universal evolutions. The hardware and software are providing infrastructures for the national security and protection as well as the prosperity of a country. Being one of the significant states of the Middle East, not only Iran has managed to preserve it's integrity and political system, but also has been an influencing polar on the regional evolutions, through it's hardware and soft ware powers. Iran's regional stance of power has been increased to some extent that it's soft power has prevented the creation of the pro-American structures in Iraq and Afghanistan after the foreign occupation. It's worth noting that Iran, due to its relations with the international community, has been deprived of taking on the stage of the fortune and power making which have taken Iran far from the goals of the Document of the 20- year Prospect of Development. The aim of this piece is posing and processing of the position of the soft and hard powers in International Relations and Iran's capabilities of utilizing them for the purpose of progress and security. The theme of the piece is based on the notional-perceptional transition approach.

The disloyalty of the neighboring countries to Iran while challenging with crisis, is the sign of Iran’s sever instable foreign policy and diplomacy. Iran having the hallucination of being a regional power, lacks such stance and is the under the suspicion of the neighboring as well as the Islamic countries. It is worth noting that, even in Arab spring, keeping the distance from Iran, Arab countries are instrumentally using it. Iran's stance in Europe, America, Africa and the Far East is getting worse, and even in Latin America its position is so fragile. Iran, due to its nuclear and Human Rights issues is suffering from dire relations with the international, regional and the non governmental organizations. This article argues on the key topics of "Iran's stance in the international community" and "the crucial options of Iran’s foreign policy."The author, trying to answer the questions according to the International Relations and Law, has done his best to give an assertingly sharp and a value -free critique. This research is based on the scientific acquirements of observation, experience, study as well as the scientific activities of the author.

What is the relationship between the Iranian philosopher and his Global dimension? The lack of the Global philosopher is a question being asked by many Iranian students,and while they are asked what they mean by the philosopher or the scholar, the answer is, a scholar like Hubbermas or Delmayor. Not knowing whether "delmayor" is a Global philosopher or not, but at least there is a consensus on Habbermas as a Global philosopher. The reason why we discuss on the latter goes back to the essential questions that would occur to us, such as "If, hypothetically, I were a Global philosopher, how would I create my articles?”, or "How would my articles be interpreted?"The concerns of the author are being introduced, and consequently being examined and criticized through different phrases in this piece.

The relationship between culture and politics, particularly by future studies` methods, in the current situation in Iranian society can be useful and constructive, because culture and politics not only in Iran but also in all societies have been totally associated. In the article, after a brief review of the conception of culture; it has been endeavored to study the impact of cultural changes on the political trends in Iran. The method of the study has been a combination of two major future studies` trends analysis and Delphi. After a study of current cultural trends, attitudes of 30 effective figures of Iranian culture and politics have been analyzed by Delphi method and tried to manifest that how cultural changes can create different political and international conditions in the future. Finally, two scenarios have been offered as a conclusion in which two different situation of culture and politics in Iranian society have been delineated.

In order to the successful fulfillment of the national interests, the foreign policy benefits from the economic, cultural, and the propagandistic instruments as well as the diplomacy. Being aware of the fact that there is no need to utilize the instruments altogether, every state uses one or some simultaneously according to its political system, economic structure, military and propadandistic capabilities, and its impact on the decision procedure of the foreign policy. Accepting the influence of the economy and the culture, this article argues the impact of diplomacy as the most sophisticated instrument of foreign policy. It is only the diplomacy, in every circumstance, that can supervise the other instruments of conducting foreign policy and consequently is capable of removing the stumbling blocks of the foreign policy with its software power.

Today the Security Council due to its central mission, which is certainly maintain international peace and security, In applying Article 41 of Chapter VII of the UN Charter regarding non limitative cases mentioned in the article, Authority has been relatively widespread. At its lowest, so that sanctions are the way to human rights concerns. One of these cases, paragraph 17 of Security Council Resolution 1737 is concerning Iran's nuclear case. In a series of educational restrictions against Iranian nationals have been considered. In this paper is to evaluate different aspects of this issue. Given the present human rights violations by the Security Council has discussed, And also the problems associated with this issue of our day We have innovative and knowledge necessary to address this matter.

This research aims at comparative analysis of the contents of three websites of PressTV, BBC, and CNN on Islamophobia as one of the important issues of the recent decade of the international news media that not only has political and promotional aspects but also has led to numerous challenges in the social and economic arenas between the western societies and Islamic world. The extensive propaganda of the western mass media against Islam after the events of September 11, 2001 has led to hatred and hostility of the West with the Muslims. To this end, the authors try to study the role of CNN, BBC, and PressTV in the phenomenon of Islamophobia within two weeks before and after the events of September 11, 2010 through analyzing the contents of these three news website. The findings reveal that there is a meaningful difference among these three websites in regard to the type of their positioning towards Islamophobia. Despite the fact that BBC and CNN websites have supported Islamophobia by professional methods and have made extensive propaganda in this connection, PressTV website announced the Islamophobia phenomenon as a defined project of the West against Islam in order to drive up the public opinion against Islam. PressTV website, on the other hand, tries to confront with CNN and BBC news in relation to the relationship of Islam with the adverse international events such as terrorism and conflict of Islam and the international peace.