نشریه علوم سیاسی
سال پانزدهم شماره 4 (پیاپی 60، زمستان 1391)

The study of principle of utilizing weapons of mass destruction will be the main issue of this article being investigated through the intellectual and narrative sources. In this article, it is claimed that utilizing weapons of mass destruction including chemical, microbic and nuclear weapons being along with an extensive annihilation with prevalent, inevitable and uncontrollable consequences is considered banned and illegal on the basis of jurisprudential reasons. Among the principles of significance of these weapons is the emphasis of Islam on the divine guidance of human being, the dignity of human nature, and seeking peace. Furthermore Islam has ordered to ethics, humanistic and affectionate behavior towards civilians particularly women, kids, and elderly people even captives and the uppermost is even the consideration of the rights of animals and ecosystem.

During the years (0616-0611), in some Islamic countries generally being put in Sunnite Islam atmosphere, it occurred some events and alterations in the political domains which are identified as Islamic awareness. The analysis of these alterations could be done in various aspects. The present article is to evaluate these revolutions in view of political thought using a methodological approach and to encounter with that Sunnite political thought. In this regard, the question is concerned with the relationship between Islamic awareness and Sunnite political thought. The synthesis and interaction between subjective and objective aspects in methodological approach leads us towards this view that the recent changes concerning Islamic awareness provided the ground for the alteration in the political thought of Sunnites and in return, the new political thought of Sunnite caused the development and continuation of Islamic awareness. In this regard, relying on the analytical and methodological presentation of this article, the final consequence of this alteration as well as the convergence of the Sunnite and Shiitepolitical thought will be achieved.

Through stating ‘Iranian Islamic Pattern of promotion” on behalf of supreme leader, it has been developed diverse discussions concerning Islamic civilization within the scientific atmosphere of the country. Among theses discussions is the study of Islamic revolution of Iran with a civilization approach. Through the level of analysis of civilization in this article, it is investigated the role of Islamic revolution as well as the Iranian Islamic pattern of promotion in making civilization in the civilized extension of Islamic Iran.To prove this issue, it is stated the potentials of Islamic revolution towards making civilization and its adjustment with the Iranian Islamic pattern of promotion; also it will be greatly pointed to the patterns present in Turkey and Malaysia, patterns of Islamic development, to demonstrate that the trial to achieve the native patterns is not limited to Iran.

Institutionalism would be the ancient strategies of sociology and politics. In this strategy, it is emphasized on the significance of institutes and constructions in the development of behaviors and policies. Accordingly, the study of institutions in this policy is prior to the study of individual actions so the behavior and identity of person is supposed to be analyzed within the framework of institutions surrounding him.The theories of institutionalism in politics are of objective ad practical aspects and the researchers involve this science with the issues like planning institutions and their impacts whereas they are generally disable to explain the role of thoughts and revolutions.According to this article, the reconstruction of institutionalism under the shadow of discourse theories can help the politics be more practical and diminish the abstract and intellectual aspects along with the evolution of institutionalism theory.

The outfit of clergy in our society has been gradually given a symbolic identity and changed into a symptom. So it is considered as a significant referring to some significations. Being inspired by Saussure’s semiologic approach, the author of the article has endeavored to make the “synchronic” concept understood among people, groups and societies through the interpretation of its “diachronic” meaning in the three traditional, transformational and modern statuses of clergy in the contemporary Iran.The findings of research demonstrates that within the transverse coordinate and focusing on the level of religions and communities, the outfit of Shiite clergy is not the outfit of people who are mediator of God and human and in charge of grouping ceremonies and idolatries. Since In Islam against the other religions, there exist grouping idolatries with no obstacle and intermediary between God and human and within the longitudinal coordinate from Safavid until Islamic republic period, this outfit has been considered a political and cultural significant stating extensive revolutions in the relational pattern of Shiite clergy and people.

Security is considered as the most basic and essential needs of human in the individual and social life. The school and theories of security take advantage of particular strategic approach in providing security. The development of the national security differs from the international one. In the macro level of international strategy, the international units along with the diverse patterns and strategies take an step towards the threat management including a range of soft and flexible strategies as well as the hard and ruthless ones. The hard strategies are those which take advantage of the firm, objective and physical (military) equipments to provide security and threat management. The realistic view of Islam towards international environment and the presence of evil-centered movements in this domain necessitate the utilization of hard strategies in providing overland security and diminishing environmental insecurity. The major question of this article concerns with the kinds of hard strategies utilized by Islam in the development of international security and the hypothesis is on the basis of contraceptive strategies, retaliation, in advance defense, as well as simultaneous defense are considered hard strategies inferred from the Islamic discourse in favor of the international security and it is investigated through descriptive-analytical method.

The political system of Saudi Arabia has been developed through the unity of Aal e-Saud and Aal e-Sheikh (Mohammad ibn-e Abdul Vahhab). It means that this unity has been dominant from the beginning of this government’s getting power. If each of these two branches gets feeble or becomes against the other one, the system will encounter with a serious challenge. Regardless of the urgent concerns of Arabic government, this country is dealing with a fundamentally complicated challenge which is the crisis of succession in its government. Malik Abdul Aziz, the first king of Saudi Arabia had willed that until his sons were alive, the power would not be transferred to the grandsons. Now, along with Abdul Aziz’s offsprings’ getting aged as well as the extensive competition of thousands of Saudi princes, it has been concluded that the occurrence of a bigger crisis in the Saudi royal household would be so probable within the coming years.Taking advantage of descriptive-analytical method, this article is to answer the main question of research concerning the effect of succession challenge on the stability of political system of Saudi Arabia.