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...

Since developments of the Arab world in 2011, Qatar has sought to introduce itself an important regional actor. Qatar's desire to engage in regional equations has contrasted with the policies of traditional actors such as Iran and Saudi Arabia. These paper tries to explain Qatar's foreign policy toward its regional rivals, Iran and Saudi Arabia, through statistical and mathematical data, by lin...

Abstract Yemeni crisis has significant consequences on Middle East region and trans-regional security policy. The first symptoms can be associated with different behaviors two regional major player in the region, Iran and Saudi Arabia. So, the main question is what affects the geopolitical identity put foreward on security strategy of Iran and Saudi Arabia in the region and inturn on tha beh...

Islamic Awakening and then the change of the political systems and crises in some countries has had enormous impacts on the political and security cooperation in the Persian Gulf region. On the one hand, Iran, following to enhance relations with new governments, is seeking to strengthen regional cooperations to solve regional issues including the Syria’s crisis. On the other hand, new competiti...

Religion being raised  in the  international relations in recent decades. While religion has been known as an important issue  in  cultural diplomacy for decades, but it has engaged in new approaches recently. This article is aim  to evaluate the role of religion in the Saudi Arabia's cultural diplomacy. Moreover the study has focused on the efficiency of Muslim World League (MWL) in the contex...

The popular uprising in the Arabic countries, which began in Tunisia in 2010, quickly has spread to other countries in the Western Asia and North Africa and created the wave of modern Islamic awakening in the Arab world. The Islamic Awakening in different countries created various scenarios based on the political culture of each society, the structure of government, and the political economy, a...