explanation and evaluation of the book “rational choice and security studies, stephen walt and its critics”, edited by brown owen and lynn josomiller, has taken place in fact in the direction of exploration of the knowledge of security studies in international relations. in terms, examination of walt’s rational choice approach, and the formal-mathematical model, can help us to present a clear a...

this essay studies theory of lex mercatoria which is based on the assumption of existence of a third legal system along with the national and international legal systems regulating international commercial relations. for this purpose, the essay discusses the backgrounds of creation and emergence of the theory, its narrow and broad meaning, elements of which and the extent that it has been recog...

social and political culture can be conceived as a trend consisting of ethical rules as its stractur, scientific thought as its process and dynamic knowledge of facts as its agenda elhical rules are intedecd to solve structural problems, scientific that is aimed at gaining knowledge corresponding with the facts, and the agenenda is not affaring truth but reliable and dynamic knowledge of the fa...

Many researchers and authorities in the field of international relations agree on the issue that one of the factors to make relations between and among governments in through traders and exchanging goods among people of different lands, and as human societies develop in different fields, the economic affair and trades of these countries expand and develop, as well.  Thus, they, in turn, have ha...

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...