political science
Mehdi Zibaei
Abstract
The relationship between Historical Sociology (HS) and International Relations (IR) is one of the relatively new fields of study, which has attracted the attention of researchers and activists of both fields during the last few decades. In other words, the impact of the international environment on internal ...
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The relationship between Historical Sociology (HS) and International Relations (IR) is one of the relatively new fields of study, which has attracted the attention of researchers and activists of both fields during the last few decades. In other words, the impact of the international environment on internal developments is the basis for the emergence of this field of study with general titles such as International Historical Sociology (IHS) or Historical Sociology of International Relations (HSIR) during the first years or decade of the current century. The theoretical research on the book, World Historical Sociology (GHS), raises the question of whether it is possible to know World Historical Sociology as a conjuncture point between mentioned fields of study. The authors of the book is criticized claim this tenet as a transdisciplinary branch includes three areas of World Sociology, Historical Sociology, and World History. The studies carried out show that ambiguity in the possibility of methodological integration of the fields of sociology and history on the one hand and neglect of the position of the state in global transformations or its overlapping with the newly emerging field of Global Studies causes the current deficiencies in the content and methodological coherence of the book. However, the mentioned attitude can be more carefully considered and developed in the future. In this article, it will be tried to express the strengths and weaknesses of this work with a critical view.
political science
mohammad ali tavana; mahmoud alipour
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The main purpose of this article is to review the book "Citizenship, Democracy and Green Justice" written by David E. Lowry and others. The book contains articles about environmental problems, human health and the environment, household consumption basket and environmental pollution, green ...
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The main purpose of this article is to review the book "Citizenship, Democracy and Green Justice" written by David E. Lowry and others. The book contains articles about environmental problems, human health and the environment, household consumption basket and environmental pollution, green justice. The main idea of the collection of articles in the book is: sustainable development is not possible without citizenship, democracy and green justice. The assumption of these articles is that green citizenship can be established based on ethical recommendations and changing laws and regulations. It seems that the humanistic and legalistic approach leads to a thin green citizenship. On the other hand, this article shows that the approach of civil society (republicanism) has more potential for building green citizenship. According to this approach, moral commitment and responsible action towards the environment requires, above all, belonging to a new society (inclusive natural civil society) in which the relations of citizens are not based on social contracts but on civil friendship.But in practice there are serious obstacles to the formation of environmental citizenship: including competition for economic development and growth; Hardening of national identity; Reducing human action to utilitarian action, especially against nature
political science
Seyed Parsa Hejazi; Mohammad Jafar Javadi Arjmand
Abstract
Although Jack Snyder is a defensive neo-realist, he has kept himself faithful to Waltz's structuralism; his big difference in this work is in his attention to the factors that were compared to the level of the international system and are placed at the reductionist levels. By combining the mentioned ...
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Although Jack Snyder is a defensive neo-realist, he has kept himself faithful to Waltz's structuralism; his big difference in this work is in his attention to the factors that were compared to the level of the international system and are placed at the reductionist levels. By combining the mentioned levels, the author presents a clearer picture of some countries' causes of war and unjustified expansionism. Among the structures mentioned in Snyder's work, we can mention the differences in the political systems of nation-states and the impact of these differences on their distinct foreign policy behaviors. The author searches for many roots of expansionist decisions in the psychological dimension and examines the possible causes of expansionist thinking in structural impositions, which, from his point of view, are not the primary cause in most cases. In the end, it is important to mention that the expansionist groups of a country often use these impositions to move towards unbridled expansionism with the use of propaganda techniques and exaggerating external risks to mobilize political resources.
political science
Seyede Motahare Hosseyni
Abstract
The works written about Russia are few and mostly have literary, political, journalistic, or security genres. The book “Society and Culture of Russia” has tried to have a general and comprehensive look at the topic of culture in Russian society, which has received less attention in Russian ...
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The works written about Russia are few and mostly have literary, political, journalistic, or security genres. The book “Society and Culture of Russia” has tried to have a general and comprehensive look at the topic of culture in Russian society, which has received less attention in Russian studies. After introducing the book and the author, this article has criticized and analyzed the author's attention to the topic of Russian society and culture. For this purpose, the background and origin of the work have been examined, then with internal structural criticism, the degree of coherence and logical order of the work and its appearance, grammatical and typographical problems have been analyzed. It also deals with its methodology and also explains its content strengths. In the following, extra-structural (basic) criticism of the book is made, and after analyzing and checking the degree of harmony of the contents of the work with its assumed principles and foundations and stating the existing strengths and contradictions, the degree of connection and challenge of the contents of the work with religious and Islamic foundations and principles is discussed.
political science
Hakem Ghasemi
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The book “Islamic Republic of Iran’s Environmental Diplomacy in the Caspian Sea” has explained Iran's diplomacy to protect the environment of the Caspian Sea. The author of the book, in the framework of the SWOT method, has offered the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats ...
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The book “Islamic Republic of Iran’s Environmental Diplomacy in the Caspian Sea” has explained Iran's diplomacy to protect the environment of the Caspian Sea. The author of the book, in the framework of the SWOT method, has offered the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of Iran’s environmental diplomacy in the Caspian Sea. Concerning the conclusion of the book, the author offers suggestions for strengthening Iran’s diplomacy. The author of the book tries to acquaint the readers with the situation of Iran’s environmental diplomacy in the Caspian Sea, and for this reason, it has many advantages. But at the same time, it has many weaknesses. The weaknesses of the book can be divided into two parts: form and content. Writing and editing problems and the lack of a conclusion section are the most important formal weaknesses, and the incorrect implementation of the SWOT method and ambiguity in the application of the concept of diplomacy are the most important content weaknesses of the book. Removing these weaknesses can lead to improving the quality of the book. In this article, with a critical approach, an attempt has been made to introduce the book "Environmental Diplomacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Caspian Sea" and its advantages and to point out weaknesses of the book to be considered by its author in the next editions.
political science
Abasaleh Taghizadeh Tabari
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Understanding and critical analysis of Karl Schmitt's political philosophy is possible only when we question the relationship between theology and politics and open a path to enter his project. The same direction is followed in this article. After presenting this introduction, referring to the fundamental ...
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Understanding and critical analysis of Karl Schmitt's political philosophy is possible only when we question the relationship between theology and politics and open a path to enter his project. The same direction is followed in this article. After presenting this introduction, referring to the fundamental question of Schmitt's project, that is, what is the concept of political affairs and how is it possible in the modern era, we criticized the concept of political affairs according to the position he adopted in this treatise and more in the treatise on political theology. Finally, in this article, we showed that despite the effects that Schmitt's theological understanding had on his understanding of the concept of political affairs, he could not have an active relationship with it. In other words, the two projects of political theology and the concept of the political affair remain two projects for Schmitt and could not lead to a single understanding of politics. According to Schmitt, although theology is present in the historical nature of politics, it is neither necessary nor has an obvious effect on the inner understanding of politics.
political science
Mohammad Ali Tavana; Farzad Azarkamand
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Hegemony and socialist strategy; towards radical democratic politics of Laclau and Moff (1985), in the face of the confusion of the new left proposed the theory of radical democracy. This theory is progressive in at least two respects: 1. Democracy based on antagonistic politics. Laclau and Muoffe stated ...
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Hegemony and socialist strategy; towards radical democratic politics of Laclau and Moff (1985), in the face of the confusion of the new left proposed the theory of radical democracy. This theory is progressive in at least two respects: 1. Democracy based on antagonistic politics. Laclau and Muoffe stated that controversy is a part of politics and hegemony is the only way to control it, but in contingent situations, the demands of opposing discourses can be articulated around an empty signifier and a new hegemony can replace previous hegemony. This process opens the way beyond Hobbesian pessimistic realism (and its authoritarianism) and Kant's moral idealism (and its conciliatory democracy); 2- Positive postmodernism in the form of the idea of post-fundamentalism. By accepting open and temporary hegemony, Laclau and Muoffe not only supported pluralism and its accompanying particularism, but also established an authority (reference) for political decisions and actions, thus it moves beyond universal fundamentalism to the Habermasian type and specifical anti-fundamentalism to the Deleuze type. The former implies accepting the authority of reason to eliminate differences in the process of communicative action, and the latter implies the separation of minorities from the majority and the rejection of any general authority for political action. Nevertheless, there are still fundamental criticisms of Laclau and Muoffe's intellectual project, including the superiority of the political over the economic and the social; the weakness of the subject's action; Western-centerism, and the Tendency to neo-Kantian transcendence.
political science
Mohammad Shojaiyan; Mohammad Reza Taheri
Abstract
Communitarianism and its serious critique of liberal discourse is one of the most important issues in contemporary political philosophy. The book "An Introduction to the Debate of Liberals and Communitarians in Contemporary Political Philosophy" is responsible for analyzing this important issue. One ...
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Communitarianism and its serious critique of liberal discourse is one of the most important issues in contemporary political philosophy. The book "An Introduction to the Debate of Liberals and Communitarians in Contemporary Political Philosophy" is responsible for analyzing this important issue. One of the strengths of the present book is to address an almost novel subject in the field of political philosophy that has been less studied independently, especially in Persian sources. The authors' emphasis on Paul Ricoeur's method as "text-based hermeneutics" gives them a considerable opportunity to examine and read the works of political thought. However, there are some objections to the book. First, the writers have not paid attention to the results of this conflict and the effects or, in other words, the changes that have resulted from the conflict in contemporary political philosophy. Second, the authors did not pay attention to the influence of Wittgenstein II's views on the content of the political philosophy of communitarianism. The authors also attribute a leadership role to McIntyre, but little attention has been paid to Sandel's very important position. Also, considering that the axis of the dispute was justice, it was appropriate that the axes explained in the book in this regard be finally referred to the issue of justice.
political science
Farzad Azarkamand; Ali Mokhtari
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The main purpose of this article is to review the book "Consumption and Everyday Life" written by Mark Patterson, a contemporary American sociologist who is known as one of the experts in the field of consumption and sociology. This work is one of the fascinating and academic texts that has been written ...
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The main purpose of this article is to review the book "Consumption and Everyday Life" written by Mark Patterson, a contemporary American sociologist who is known as one of the experts in the field of consumption and sociology. This work is one of the fascinating and academic texts that has been written by researching the effects of consumerism in contemporary human life. According to the author of the work, the secret of the survival of today's capitalist system is to create a gap between production and consumption and even the transformation of human beings into consumer beings, whose identity and personality are often formed in the process of market and purchase. The present article uses Patterson's views as one of the fields of formation of sociology and believes that the views of Patterson, Bourdieu, and even Doserto can consolidate an independent field called sociology. Consumption in academic centers and scientific circles. The most important criticism that can be leveled at Patterson's views is the question of the resistance to today's consumerist order, which, ironically, was designed on the ground of consumerism. Criticizing this plan, the critic considers the approach of critical thinkers and using the capacity of "art" and "critical art" as a more desirable approach to reduce the undesirable effects of consumerism.
political science
Ali Bagheri Dolatabadi
Abstract
Studying Iran's foreign policy is one of the most interesting topics among the people and the academic community. This behavior is not specific to Iranians and can, also, be seen among other foreign researchers concerning Iran's foreign policy. Luciano Zaccara is one of the authors who has surpassed ...
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Studying Iran's foreign policy is one of the most interesting topics among the people and the academic community. This behavior is not specific to Iranians and can, also, be seen among other foreign researchers concerning Iran's foreign policy. Luciano Zaccara is one of the authors who has surpassed her counterparts in addressing this issue and has edited a book on the “Foreign Policy of Iran under President Hassan Rouhani’s First Term”. The lack of translation of the book into Persian encouraged the author to introduce the work and critique it in terms of content and form. What makes the book prominent is the participation of some well-known authors in writing the chapters, addressing some areas that have received less attention in Iranian research, such as relations with Africa and the pathology of Hassan Rouhani's foreign policy. Lack of theoretical framework for the discussions, incoherence between the contents of the chapters, and ignoring the scientific neutrality by some authors of the book are among the weaknesses of the work.
political science
Hamid Malekzadeh; Mina Zahmatkesh
Abstract
The present article is an attempt to study the book "The Redeeming Prince": The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece”, by Maurizio Viroli, an Italian professor of political science at the US academia, which is published by Elmi va Farhangi Publication under their "collection of Thoughts and Thinkers" ...
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The present article is an attempt to study the book "The Redeeming Prince": The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece”, by Maurizio Viroli, an Italian professor of political science at the US academia, which is published by Elmi va Farhangi Publication under their "collection of Thoughts and Thinkers" in 1398. In their critique of the book, the authors have tried to use the basis of a particular phenomenological method. Accordingly, and based on the fundamental belief that any critique/interpretation of a text or system of thought is fundamentally related to the critic/commentator's experience of the text or system of thought understudy, they have approached the study of the structure of experience from a phenomenological perspective. After this, they have tried to examine Viroli's text on the basis of this method and to find out how the author of the book has focused on reorganizing the meaning of Machiavelli's "The Prince" on the basis of a new understanding of the Idea of Prince as a redeemer.
political science
Meisam Ghahreman
Abstract
Foucault's view of the Islamic Revolution, both during his lifetime and after, provoked different debates and reactions and various works were written about it. One of the most controversial works is “Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism” by Janet Afary ...
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Foucault's view of the Islamic Revolution, both during his lifetime and after, provoked different debates and reactions and various works were written about it. One of the most controversial works is “Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism” by Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson. On the one hand, this book can be considered a political reaction to Islamism, and on the other hand, it is an epistemological critique of what the authors call "cultural relativism". Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi in his book "Foucault in Iran" while presenting the truth of Foucault's views on the Iranian revolution, also gives an appropriate answer to Afary and Anderson. In other words, in this book, he seeks to answer the question: How did Foucault make sense of the Iranian revolution? The present article has examined this issue from a particular point of view both of these works are formed within a discourse practice and, therefore, are different sentences of a statement and we must get rid of both equally.
political science
Farzad Azarkamand; Alireza Samiei Esfahani
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The book "Intellectuals and Politics" by Mark L. deals with the relationship between politics and intellectuals. More than anything, this book claims that in the subside era of grand metanarrative, enlightenment has ended, and intellectuals cannot be pioneers in changes such as in the past. Layla claims ...
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The book "Intellectuals and Politics" by Mark L. deals with the relationship between politics and intellectuals. More than anything, this book claims that in the subside era of grand metanarrative, enlightenment has ended, and intellectuals cannot be pioneers in changes such as in the past. Layla claims that the leading causes of the rise of totalitarian regimes, ruinous wars in the west, and philosophy politicization is the intellectuals' betrayal. Intellectuals who had great aspirations, but did not reach the desired results. They were mostly involved in hidden aspects of their life, which influenced their thinking and led to the combination of philosophy and practical politics. Thinkers whom Layla accuses are Heidegger, Arendt, Kojève, Benjamin, Foucault, and Derrida. The strength of the book is contextualism, and the weakness is the ethical critique of thinkers rather than a critique of their works.
political science
Armina Arm
Abstract
Geography has a very important impact on the fate of countries. Land and natural resources can endanger and threaten human beings just as they can bring security and prosperity. Although modern technology has made it possible to control geographical laws to some extent, it is still important in understanding ...
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Geography has a very important impact on the fate of countries. Land and natural resources can endanger and threaten human beings just as they can bring security and prosperity. Although modern technology has made it possible to control geographical laws to some extent, it is still important in understanding why countries behave. The main focus of the book "prisoners of Geography" is the importance of geopolitics in studying international issues and crises. The author seeks to answer the key question of how geopolitics influences the decisions of leaders and political actors. According to the author, geographical challenges, including mountains, rivers, deserts, and other natural barriers, limit leaders' decision-making in war and peace. In this regard, the author examines the geopolitical conditions of different countries in different geographical regions and, by reviewing the historical past, looks at the future of international crises in light of geopolitical constraints. The Marshall Team has identified key geopolitical issues facing all major continents and regions of the world. The author analyzes the geopolitics of areas with the potential for current or future conflicts. In view of the above issues, the present article tries to introduce the work, critique, and evaluate it on the agenda.
political science
Hakem Ghasemi
Abstract
The process of globalization has created many challenges for countries. Small countries, meanwhile, face more challenges, because they are more influential and vulnerable communities. Researchers have published various articles and books about this issue and have tried to explain the situation of countries ...
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The process of globalization has created many challenges for countries. Small countries, meanwhile, face more challenges, because they are more influential and vulnerable communities. Researchers have published various articles and books about this issue and have tried to explain the situation of countries in the process of globalization, and their actions to resolve the problems and challenges of globalization. With this approach, the author of the book "The Gulf States in International Political Economy" has tried to explain the position of the GCC members in the international economy in the era of globalization. This book examines and analyzes the actions of small countries in the Persian Gulf to adapt to globalization and global conditions. In this article, with a critical review of this book, we have tried to examine and introduce its strengths and weaknesses. This study shows that the author of the book has provided valuable analysis of the policies and actions of the small the Persian Gulf countries to improve their position in the international economy. But, at the same time, the book has numerous formal and content weaknesses, especially its translated text.
political science
Hamid Malekzadeh
Abstract
This article will review the Persian translation of "The Political Philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli" by Filippo Del Lucchese. Fouad Habibi and Amin Karami translated Del Lucchese's book into Persian, and the Ghoghnos Publication provided it to Persian language readers. In this article, in addition ...
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This article will review the Persian translation of "The Political Philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli" by Filippo Del Lucchese. Fouad Habibi and Amin Karami translated Del Lucchese's book into Persian, and the Ghoghnos Publication provided it to Persian language readers. In this article, in addition to giving a brief introduction about the author, the organization of the book will be drawn for readers. We will also try to examine the content of the work of the Italian professor of the history of political thought about the French secretary in light of the central concepts in his writing. We begin by defining the author's understanding of Machiavelli's naturalism and pursuing the logical implications of this philosophical formulation until their final conclusions are reached. We will show how Del Lucchese's account of Machiavelli's philosophical thought will lead to a new formulation of the concept of modern politics in his thought. A republican revolutionary formulation that, unlike most of the claims about Machiavelli, turns him into a philosopher of conflict and people.
political science
Majid Ostovar
Abstract
The Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979 criticized many theories of the revolution and again focused research on the revolution on humanities scholars. So far, this revolution has been studied from economic, political, psychological, social classes, cultural and discourse perspectives, and each of them ...
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The Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979 criticized many theories of the revolution and again focused research on the revolution on humanities scholars. So far, this revolution has been studied from economic, political, psychological, social classes, cultural and discourse perspectives, and each of them has proposed new perspectives on the study of the Islamic Revolution. One of them is the book "Revolution in Iran: The Roots of Turmoil" which is written by Mehran Kamerva and published in 1990 by Routledge Publications. Combining the sociological theories of the revolution with psychological and political theories and constructing a multidisciplinary approach to the Iranian revolution, he studies the policies of the government and the political field before the revolution and believes that the Pahlavi regime, after limiting economic ambitions. In the late 1970s and the diplomatic pressures of its main ally, the United States began to decay. Thus, groups and social classes disillusioned with modernization, using the open political space and Shiite ideology and leadership of the clergy, found revolutionary characteristics and with the weakness of the Shah and the regime's repressive forces were able to overthrow the Pahlavi government and replace it with a new political system. In this article, an attempt is made to critique the book based on the methodology of phenomenological sociology and the concept of symbolic mentality.
political science
Ali Bagheri Dolatabadi; Malek Avarideh
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The purpose of this study is to critique one of the latest works on Iran's foreign policy by Farhad Rezaei. The questions of the research are: Has the author of the book could survey the subject in a scientific method? How much of the collected data has validity and the results of the book are reliable? ...
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The purpose of this study is to critique one of the latest works on Iran's foreign policy by Farhad Rezaei. The questions of the research are: Has the author of the book could survey the subject in a scientific method? How much of the collected data has validity and the results of the book are reliable? To what extent has this work been able to answer the ambiguities and questions in the minds of Iranian and foreign audiences and be effective? To answer the above questions, first, the main idea of the different chapters of the book has been addressed and criticized. Then, in two separate sections, the book is criticized in terms of content and form. Each of these sections includes two sub-headings: the book's strengths and weaknesses. In the end, the authors stated their general evaluation of the book. The research methodology is descriptive-analytical and conducted by library-based data.
political science
Seyede Motahare Hosseyni
Abstract
This article reviewed the book "Two Essays on Political Philosophy of Feminism", and also overviewed the works of 3 writers of the book and its translator. The writers are feminist theatricians with radical, liberal, and social approaches to feminism, and I critically overviewed their approaches. Then ...
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This article reviewed the book "Two Essays on Political Philosophy of Feminism", and also overviewed the works of 3 writers of the book and its translator. The writers are feminist theatricians with radical, liberal, and social approaches to feminism, and I critically overviewed their approaches. Then I compared the feminist revision which was discussed in the second essay of the book with some samples of revisionist movements and theories in third-world and non-western communities like theories of Muhanti in India and Enloe in Malaysia. The result of this article is that even if the feminist theory of the first essay claim to pass from just-western feminist theory, ideologically is western yet, which means it believes in European- American worldview. Also, the social theory of the second essay shows the basics of social feminism in summary, yet specialized to western societies, but it can be useful to non-western societies with powerful civil societies. The methodology of this article is descriptive and uses bibliotic resources to review the book critically and see what the forte and poverty of the book's essays. My purpose is to find accessibility, correctness, and incorrectness of the discussion of the book and its writes claims about women and feminism.
political science
Elham Rasooli saniabadi
Abstract
Foreign policy analysis, as one of the important subfields of international relations knowledge, has become a living and current discussion in the scientific circles of international relations in the last decades of the 21st century and relatively important literature has been produced in this field. ...
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Foreign policy analysis, as one of the important subfields of international relations knowledge, has become a living and current discussion in the scientific circles of international relations in the last decades of the 21st century and relatively important literature has been produced in this field. Foreign policy analysis is the study of the management and implementation of relations between various actors, especially states, in the international system, which covers a wide range of topics. Among these issues, it is very important to study the decision-making process and the role of internal and external possibilities and constraints in this process. In this article, we will review one of the published books in this field entitled " Social Forces Behavior in Foreign Policy". This review is organized into four sections: expressing the advantages of form and content and expressing the shortcomings of form and content. This research is critical analytical research with a text analysis approach.
political science
Reza Najafzadeh
Abstract
This manuscript is devoted to the critique of Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Spivak as part of the study of history from below deconstructs historiography. Her central theme is the critique of the subaltern-maker sign system. She uses Althusserian concepts such as the theory of ...
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This manuscript is devoted to the critique of Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Spivak as part of the study of history from below deconstructs historiography. Her central theme is the critique of the subaltern-maker sign system. She uses Althusserian concepts such as the theory of ideology and apparatus alongside concepts such as the differential identity, trying to link the grammatological psychoanalysis to the political economy. This is the strength of her work, but there are also serious criticisms of her project. For example, Spivak blocks the path of claimed change and emancipation by declaring the subaltern's inability to speak and her need to be represented. Following Derrida's call to speak of the subaltern through the vague force within us, he opens the way for a kind of ecstatic intuition that works to release the power of imagination and aesthetic taste. Spivak wanted to make the subaltern studies a general theory by linking the international political economy with the hermeneutics of sacred, legal, and educational texts, and literary criticism, but she rarely moved beyond the realm of literary criticism. The validity of her critiques of Foucault and Deleuze can be questioned by referring to their original works.
political science
Morteza Bahrani
Abstract
The book The Concept of Criticism in the Modernist Movements in the Arab World has been reviewed. The most important criticism of this book is that it has inconsistent claims, while the author intends to discuss the criticism, he forgets that criticism is a modern action and therefore suffers from traditionalism ...
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The book The Concept of Criticism in the Modernist Movements in the Arab World has been reviewed. The most important criticism of this book is that it has inconsistent claims, while the author intends to discuss the criticism, he forgets that criticism is a modern action and therefore suffers from traditionalism and postmodernism. Throughout the book, and in spite of propositions that evoke hope for critique and progress, the author is either caught up in traditionalist retrogression or preoccupied with postmodernist bizarre and pompous gibberish. These two factors have led the author, from another point of view, to consider criticism as matter related to the realm of philosophy of consciousness: as if the Arabs reach a critical stage in their mentality and subjectivity, their societies will also prosper and get progressed. These contradictions are especially evident in the fact that the author does not pay attention to modern values (freedom, happiness, and integrity). Any research on criticism that does not appreciate the practical results of modernity cannot be considered serious and honest research. This is the focus point of this article. In order to critique this cognitive disorder, I have examined the book by the method of hermeneutics of suspicion.
political science
Aliashraf Nazari
Abstract
The ideas and thoughts of great thinkers are boundless, and their intellectual foundations effects on the construction of thought and the nature of the transformation of other societies. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) is one of the most controversial theorists in the second half of the twentieth century, ...
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The ideas and thoughts of great thinkers are boundless, and their intellectual foundations effects on the construction of thought and the nature of the transformation of other societies. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) is one of the most controversial theorists in the second half of the twentieth century, whose intellectual innovations have been seen from different perspectives and in different societies. A text that has been actively seeking to exploit Foucault's intellectual categories to represent a new interpretation aimed at answering the questions of Arab societies in the intellectual-philosophical field over the past three decades. Each of Foucault's commentators has tried by applying modern methodologies and presenting a new reading of his heritage, historiography of Islamic thought and the design of modernism and pluralism in his intellectual project with the aim of overcoming the existing problems in these societies. The focus of the present paper is the introduction, theoretical critique, and analysis of Michel Foucault's book “In Contemporary Arab Thought”, written by Al-Zawawi Baghura and translated by Majid Manhaji. Negah-e-Moaser press published the Persian version of this book in 2020.
political science
Rohollah Eslami; Elaheh Valizadeh
Abstract
Not only have the ideas of Marxism analyzed societies, but also shaped social action. Marxists have read each Marx's works in a number of ways, and claim to have provided the closest interpretation to Marx. In the meantime, Louis Althusser, a French neo-Marxist thinker of the twentieth century, with ...
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Not only have the ideas of Marxism analyzed societies, but also shaped social action. Marxists have read each Marx's works in a number of ways, and claim to have provided the closest interpretation to Marx. In the meantime, Louis Althusser, a French neo-Marxist thinker of the twentieth century, with a structuralist reading, has considered Marx's second period of thought, which is scientific. This article addresses the question of how Marxism can be analyzed not only in its purely economic deterministic nature but also in the political aspect of states in Marxist analysis. In this regard, we have introduced and critically reread the book Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Louis Althusser, translated by Mr. Roozbeh Sadra. The book has been criticized in terms of form and ideas. Theoretically, Althusser, on the one hand, determines the culture and ideological mechanisms of the state in socio-political developments and, on the other hand, promotes a kind of conspiracy illusion. The form of the book is desirable in terms of cover design and requires some writing corrections that are documented in the text.
political science
Morteza Bahrani
Abstract
This article is based on a review of Socialism: A Failed Idea That Never Dies (by Kristian Niemietz). Where Niemietz believes that the idea of socialism is still alive despite its successive failures, I will argue that the problem is not that the "ideas" are dead or alive. Human mental phenomena ...
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This article is based on a review of Socialism: A Failed Idea That Never Dies (by Kristian Niemietz). Where Niemietz believes that the idea of socialism is still alive despite its successive failures, I will argue that the problem is not that the "ideas" are dead or alive. Human mental phenomena include ideas, judgments, and wills. Ideas never die; whether it is the idea of socialism or the idea of God or the Idea of the dragon. The main issue is the rightness or wrongness of human will. Accordingly, I have tried to show, in a critical phenomenological way, that socialism is a will to failure. If it is repeated and experienced a thousand more times, it will achieve nothing but failure. On the contrary, and by historical experience, it is capitalist liberalism that has set before us the right and progressive will. For those of us who have stepped forward in the process of progress, the moral imperative is to put aside the socialist temptations of equal distribution. The beginning of our progress is to step on the path of production. Production and exchange of capital are the other words of free exchange and the right to freedom. It is only with this right that we can achieve ourselves in this worldly world.
