مجله دانش سیاسی و بین المللی
پیاپی 1 (بهار 1391)

Political participation as a kind of participation is one of the indicators of social and political development in countries. Women are a major group in the society whose participation is indispensable in the trend of political, social and cultural developments. Girl students’ political participation as a biggest group in developing countries plays vital role in political stability and dynamism of the future of societies. The purpose of this article is to study the relationship between social capital and political participation of girl students in Mashad Ferdowsi University. The study was conducted on 288 girl students of the university. For data collection, questionnaires were used whose validity was evaluated using formal method and their reliability was assessed using Cronbach’s alpha statistic, and data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS18 in Windows. By division of social capital into social trust, social networks and voluntary associations, and taking into account five dimensions of political participation, meaningful correlations between social capital and political participation in respondents are observed.

One of the most influential religious modernity has been intellectual circles and well understood and analyzed the importance of original ideas and attitudes of this thought would double. In one hand Ali Shariati ideological discourse of religious modernity, interpretive world, extremely realistic and ideological faith in his audience to be exposed, on the other hand, Shabestari hermeneutic discourse of modernity is religious and that the series despite its attached to Shariati's main religious renaissance and revival of religion, and is apart from its predecessor. And contrary to Shariati, it will narrow interpretation of faith and religion in a pluralistic society and politics from the realm of the private sphere of people pushing against Shariati and owe his alleged ideological discourse, ideology and the altar to take interlunar provides a way for religious deconstructed. This essay is an attempt to compare the two introduces a vote in both the religious and ideological discourse of modernity hermeneutics, review plant to be common and distinguishing between these two discourses.

Theories on knowledge which have stepped into the realm of social theory, philosophy, even natural sciences were a product of modern era since early nineteenth century. In Nineteenth century, the basic assumptions of epestimology were based on positivism which have been scrutinized and undermined by postmodern thoughts and critical theories in Twentith century. Jurgen Habermas's theory of knowlege which have been inspired from school of critical theory, chllanges the positivis dicta on epestimology and consider it as rationalization to a loss of "freedom" and "meaning". Understanding the role of knowlege in social action and inter-subjectivity interactions has a salient place in the Haberma's thoughts. His critique of "public sphere" starts with critic of "theory of knowledge" and therby, he provides a theoretical foundation through which reaching to an "understanding"would be possible by social action or communication; a knowledge which is a base of communication on one hand and will manifest in discourse on the other hand. Reviewing the Jurgen Habermas's theory of knowledge in general and its reflections on social theory in particular is the main focus of this paper.

The main objective of this article is to know the role of Islamic movements in strengthening the Islamic identity in the arena of globalization with emphasis on Islamic movements in Palestine. Today, globalization has profound influences on the culture and identity of the various ethnic and religious communities in the dimensions. In this process of preserving the Islamic identity of alien invasion and strengthen those of particular importance. Among the factors that affect this, contemporary Islamic movements in the Islamic world, especially the Palestinian Islamic movement. During the recent century is the subject of Palestine and for the defense of the Islamic identity of the most important discussions of the political world. To identifying symbols, such as "it is also an important place in the struggles of the people of Palestine and Islamic movements such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements it. On this basis, this article uses a method of studies documents in answer to three questions. The result of studies show that as a result of the lack of efficiency of the nationalistic ideology and the Socialist, the Palestinians have shown most attentions Islamic identity restoration and strengthening itself, and Resistance bands are also in the fight against the enemy occupying have earned the success. For example it can be pointed out to the achievements of the first intifada, the Al-Aqsa Mosque intifada and resistance of Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups in during 22 days of war, and the Islam world support of them. This campaign not only in rural rehabilitation and strengthening of the Islamic identity of the Palestinians but also strengthen the identity and solidarity of Muslims, the growth and expansion of the flow of Islamic awakening in the Arab States has been effective in the era of globalization.

This article aims to criticize Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics using Habermas’s critical hermeneutics. In addition to a review of the history of Hermeneutics (pre-modernity, modern and contemporary), Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and Habermas’s critical hermeneutics are specifically addressed. Then, through the methodology of critical hermeneutics defects and flaws in Gadamer’s theory are pointed out. By introducing such new concepts as pre-understanding, hermeneutic circle, historicity of language, fusion of horizons and focusing hermeneutics on them, Gadamer opened a new chapter in the science of hermeneutics. Gadamer’s ideas about pre-judgment, authority and tradition are at the center of Habermas’s criticisms. According to Habermas, Gadamer’s hermeneutics is a conservative trend for it fails to free itself from the present authority of the tradition. Habermas resists Gadamer’s linguistic reductionism and contends that language does not contain the entirety of social process because language itself is dependent on non-lingual and authoritative systems that can change lingual systems. Habermas argues that Gadamer’s view idea pre-judgment and the authority of tradition leads to a denial of the power of thinking and rethinking in man.

The subject of the "End of History" has been considered by man in all eras and terms. As long as man has begun thinking and probed in the world essence has considered the teleology of the world. On the other hand the individual and particularly, governments many times ago has recourse a kind of Ideology in frame of the different societies in order to manage political and social conflicts, making solidarity and social integration, to give legitimating the political system and to forward economic programs. However,20th century has been the era and arena of the battle and conflict between ideologies because, crystallization of political ideologies and doctrines such as liberalism, socialism, marxism, anarchism, totalitarianism(in triple types of Nazism,fashism and communism) feminism and ecologism etc. Now it seems that with developments such as collapse of the communism system in USSR and abating of the ideological debates between east and west at the end twentieth century scholars such as Francis Fukuyama have discussed about the 'End of history' and the success of the western liberalism in beginning of the third millennium and Samuel Huntington also speaking about 'the crash of civilization in this century. Accordingly, in present paper we tend introduce briefly some of the political schools and doctrins in twentieth century, then, will study Huntington and Fukuyama's theory and finally will study discussion of the Ideology crisis and the vacuum of spirituality in capitalist system. Methodology of this paper is descriptive explanatory with emphasis on Internet-library sources.

International Relations are in constant interactions and confrontations between the actors which mainly are nation-states. Game theory is one of major explanatory model which explain why states cooperate or conflict to each other at any issue areas. The main presumption of game theory is that the actors treat rationally and try to reach to the optimal payoff. Iranian nuclear dossier is one of international conflicting issue which have involved many big powers who are nicknamed as 5+1.This article is going to explain the reasons of confrontation and cooperation between Iran and 5+1 through game theory models. The game models such as stag hunt and deadlock dilemma are less addressed in the theoretical literature of game theory in Farsi. In this article such models would be more elaborated and the Iranian nuclear case is analyzed through them.