The last few years have seen an opening up of what is considered to be the legitimate terrain of international relations (IR). This move is, for the most part, extremely welcome. Yet, the multiple theoretical and empirical openings in IR since the end of the Cold War have failed to elucidate many of the puzzles, questions and problems posed by the contemporary conjuncture. There are a number of...

The rise of China/East Asia and the perceived decline of the US/West pose an emerging question about how International Relations (IR) Theory should respond to this change. Increasingly, there have been heated discussions within the Chinese IR academia over a desirable Chinese contribution to IR Theory, particularly the possibility of building a distinctive Chinese IR Theory. Inevitably, this dr...

islam as a universal religion has a special approach for establishment of international relations. different dimensions of this approach can be found in the accounts of the prophet’s (s) interactions with other nations. theoretical foundations of islamic international relations, inspired by qur’anic principles, have consolidated the mechanism of these relations in practice. meantime, a survey o...

The goal of this article is the analysis of Ahmadinejad government's foreign policy according to the critical theory of international relations. Whether it seems foreign policy of Mahmood Ahmadinejad, government is different from his before and after governments. Perhaps it could be provided more detailed and objective analysis from foreign policy of Islamic Republic of Iran during Ahmadinejad ...

the international relations is shaped to answer of order dilemma. the most important topic the theories of this discipline deal with is presenting a model of order by the players acting in the arena of international system. the purpose of the present article is to know what the theoretical approach of international relations concerning the problem of post cold war is. it seems that the discipli...

in order to elucidate the significance and the position of international cultural relations in transformation of global peace and security, we should initially study its indicators through the cultural relationships among the nations, public, private and international organizations, social movements, international displacement /migration and modern communication technologies and then we should ...