The models of regional governance in the world, particularly for administration of higher education are considered vital. In Iran, with the approval of Iran's Higher Education System Spatial Management Document, the issue of regional management in higher education was given special attention. Articles 1 and 2 of the document specifically address the regional higher education structure of the ...

Background and Aim: Arab revolutions occurred in late 2010, and the influence of these movements came from Deraa in Syria. Given that the Syrian crisis is a multifaceted, complex, and diverse political and security crisis with conflicting goals, then This research divides actors into three levels of internal, regional, and international in order to accurately explain the subject. Each domestic ...

Strategic planning is a systematic method focuses on inter connections of preferred action by using technical indicator including weaknesses and strengths (abilities and resources), opportunities and threats in analytical process. In addition it is a systematic method for decision making. These differences happened comparing with other planning method because of its intelligent integrated analy...

Arabia considers Iran the main source of instability in the region and believes that Iran seeks to dominate the Sunni Arabs through creating Shiite crescent. Especially after the Islamic Revolution, two countries have been as the rivals in the Persian Gulf. Ideological competition is considered as the core of competition in the areas of geopolitics, geostrategics and geoeconomics. In recent yea...

Iran and Turkey are two key regional actors that separately play a role in multiple geographies in terms of both geographical weight and tenets of identity. Geographically speaking, these two countries are simultaneously influential in political-security issues in different areas such as the Fertile Crescent. When it comes to identity, by making a link between their principles and values to reg...

     The resiliency approach has the potential to pay attention to the sustainability paradigm in the area of planning in different dimensions and sectors as a new shadow approach to local policies with a global approach to regional development. However, the concept of resilience has emerged over the past years as an emerging approach to environmental planning and management literature. In this...