Revisiting Security Communities after the Cold War : the Constructivist Perspective

The Reincarnation of Cocom: Explaining Post-cold War Export Controls

The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and DualUse Goods and Technologies is the first post-Cold War export control regime. This article explains the regime’s emergence and implications in terms of three contending theories of international relations: realism, neoliberalism, and constructivism. More specifically, it addresses the question of why the Coordinating Comm...

بحران سوریه و جنگ سرد جدید

The Syrian crisis, after passing the stages of a hard war between regional actors, advances towards a new cold war between powerful intra-regional actors. The basic question raised in the present article is, “How is the nature of the new conflict between East and West in the Syrian crises?” The nature of the confrontation is revealing the cold war between the two blocks of the Western countries...

Revisiting Quotes from Educational Perspective: An Inquiry into the Multifarious Applications of Grand Quotes in English Language Pedagogy

Geopolitical Factors of Conflict between the Superpowers during Post-Cold War Era

Aims & Backgrounds: The US and the Soviet Union led the east and the west camps during the cold war and the geopolitical order was laid on the foundation of the rivalries between these two superpowers. But, after the collapse of the bipolar system, the US became the undisputed power in the international arena and the geopolitical order underwent changes during three decades after that and the c...

دولت ملت‌سازی در جهان اسلام و سیاست جهانی آمریکا در دوران معاصر

After World War II, United States became a global superpower in the world. Although with having little experience in the war with other countries and the emergence of new states in these countries, the US entered the realm of nation-building with the change of government in Germany and Japan. The establishment of the United Nations at this time did not contribute much to the issue of nation-sta...