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This paper examine the discourse and practices of the two most active GCC countries in the Medite... more This paper examine the discourse and practices of the two most active GCC countries in the Mediterranean, and will conduct its analysis through a discussion of such highlighted issues as economy, migration and political ideas. Adopting content discourse analysis, this paper studies documents from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to help better understand these countries’ changing role and influence, as well as their policies and role perceptions in the Mediterranean area. Investigating their alternative discourses, the paper will highlight the conflicting, competing and also converging policies and visions of these actors regarding EU policies.
This paper examines the discourse and practices of Iran in the areas of water and agriculture, ec... more This paper examines the discourse and practices of Iran in the areas of water and agriculture, economy, migration and political ideas, to test Iran’s approach and also its influence in various fields. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis approach, it engages with published documents, elite discourses, and public narratives of Iranian leaders and intellectual elites to better understand the country’s changing role and influence as well as policies and role perceptions in the Mediterranean area. Examining its alternative discourses, the paper aims at highlighting the conflicting, competing, as well as converging, policies and visions of these actors regarding the EU’s policies and engagements.
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Asia has the world’s highest concentration of nuclear weapons and the most significant recent dev... more Asia has the world’s highest concentration of nuclear weapons and the most significant recent developments related to nuclear proliferation, as well as the world’s most critical conflicts and considerable political instability. The containment and prevention of nuclear proliferation, especially in Asia, continues to be a grave concern for the international community. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of nuclear arsenals, nuclear ambitions and nuclear threats across different parts of Asia. It covers the Middle East (including Israel), China, India-Pakistan and their confrontation, as well as North Korea. It discusses the conventional warfare risks, risks from non-state armed groups, and examines the attempts to limit and control nuclear weapons, both international initiatives and American diplomacy and interventions. The book concludes by assessing the possibility of nuclear revival, the potential outcomes of international approaches to nuclear disarmament, and the efficacy of coercive diplomacy in containing nuclear proliferation.
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Tehran International Studies and Research Institute, 2020
از زمانی که اصلی ترین دغدغه پدران رشته روابط بین الملل دو ری از جنگ بود تا دورانی که واقع گرایان ... more از زمانی که اصلی ترین دغدغه پدران رشته روابط بین الملل دو ری از جنگ بود تا دورانی که واقع گرایان جنگ ها را ناگزیردنیای آنارشیستی دانستند، از دورانی که توازن دوقطبی در غالب جنگ سرد جزء مقدسات برخی اندیشمندان روابط شده بود تاروزگاری که منادیان پایان تاریخ اوتو پیای جهان تک قطبی لیبرال را نوید می دادند، سالیان بسیاری سپری شده و دنیای نظریاتروابط بین الملل تحولات زیادی را تجربه کرده است. تز و آنتی تزهای متعددی مطرح شده و گرایش ها و نگرشهای گوناگوندر این رشته هرکدام با عینک شناخت شناسی و هستی شناسی مخصوص به خود تلاش نموده اند بخشی از معمای روابط بینالملل را حل کند. اکنون پس از گذشت صد سال تجربه و آزمون و خطا این رشته به مرحله میانسالی خود رسیده است. از همی نرو امروزه نو عی سعه صدر و احتیاط در میان دانش آموختگان این رشته دیده می شود که در دهه های پیش کمتردیده می شد.احتیاطی که از یکسو حاصل نقدهای جدی به کاربست های ناکام نظریات جریان غالب در این رشته (رئالیسم و لیبرالیسم) است و از سویی نتیجه مسئله مند سازی مد عیات معرفت شناسانه و هستی شناسانه متعارف در این رشته. این وقوف به جایگاه خویشتن پژوهشگران روابط بین الملل را برآن داشته است تا رواداریشان در برابر محاجه ها بیشتر کنند، دریچه ذهنشان را برو ینظریات جدید و نوآورانه باز نگه دارند و از نقدهای بنیادین و اساسی نهراسند زیرا که در طول سالیان گذشته این نقدها از یکسوحاملان نظریات جریان غالب را تشویق نموده تا با بازبینی مبانی و روشهای گذشته به گونه ها و بیانهای جدیدی از تئوریهای قبلی دست یابند و از سویی دیگر راه را بر ای ظهور نگرشهای جدید هموار ساخته و این هردو رخداد به رشته روابط بین المل لجانی تازه بخشیده و به غنای آن افزوده است. از جمله نگرشهای انتقاد محور در عرصه روابط بین الملل پروژه رویکردهای غیرغربی است. این رویکرد مد عی است صرفا مفهوم پردازی و نظریه پردازی غربی از مسائل و پدیده های روابط بین المل نمی تواندهمه واقعیت های این حوزه را پوشش دهد.
The geopolitics of the Mediterranean region has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century,... more The geopolitics of the Mediterranean region has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century, partly as a result of local state dynamics and partly as a product of transformational changes at the international and broader regional levels. As opposed to the early 1990s, the EU today is no longer the dominant or key actor in the Mediterranean and it now has to balance its policies and interests in the Mediterranean against the perceptible influence of a range of major and regional powers, most importantly the United States, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Turkey, and Israel. In order to remain an influential actor, the EU needs to understand how these eight powers perceive the Mediterranean, interact with and within it, and conduct themselves in pursuit of their interests. This volume is the first of its kind which aims at shedding light on these issues – on how these powers have been constructing, or at least attempted to construct, different geopolitical imaginations of what the EU has labelled the Mediterranean region, and how their identity formations has impacted their role. Applying a common framework of analysis the contributors to this volume explore these and related issues comprehensively and systematically, shedding new light on these actors’ foreign policy and geopolitical considerations, in the process discerning with which actors in the Mediterranean they most closely interact, and the methods and policy areas they have tended to focus on. In so doing, the volume will show the areas of divergence, competition and conflict, between these actors, as well as the basis on which the EU can cooperate with one or more of these influential states for mutual benefit.
This paper examine the discourse and practices of the two most active GCC countries in the Medite... more This paper examine the discourse and practices of the two most active GCC countries in the Mediterranean, and will conduct its analysis through a discussion of such highlighted issues as economy, migration and political ideas. Adopting content discourse analysis, this paper studies documents from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to help better understand these countries’ changing role and influence, as well as their policies and role perceptions in the Mediterranean area. Investigating their alternative discourses, the paper will highlight the conflicting, competing and also converging policies and visions of these actors regarding EU policies.
This paper examines the discourse and practices of Iran in the areas of water and agriculture, ec... more This paper examines the discourse and practices of Iran in the areas of water and agriculture, economy, migration and political ideas, to test Iran’s approach and also its influence in various fields. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis approach, it engages with published documents, elite discourses, and public narratives of Iranian leaders and intellectual elites to better understand the country’s changing role and influence as well as policies and role perceptions in the Mediterranean area. Examining its alternative discourses, the paper aims at highlighting the conflicting, competing, as well as converging, policies and visions of these actors regarding the EU’s policies and engagements.
Asia has the world’s highest concentration of nuclear weapons and the most significant recent dev... more Asia has the world’s highest concentration of nuclear weapons and the most significant recent developments related to nuclear proliferation, as well as the world’s most critical conflicts and considerable political instability. The containment and prevention of nuclear proliferation, especially in Asia, continues to be a grave concern for the international community. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of nuclear arsenals, nuclear ambitions and nuclear threats across different parts of Asia. It covers the Middle East (including Israel), China, India-Pakistan and their confrontation, as well as North Korea. It discusses the conventional warfare risks, risks from non-state armed groups, and examines the attempts to limit and control nuclear weapons, both international initiatives and American diplomacy and interventions. The book concludes by assessing the possibility of nuclear revival, the potential outcomes of international approaches to nuclear disarmament, and the efficacy of coercive diplomacy in containing nuclear proliferation.
Tehran International Studies and Research Institute, 2020
از زمانی که اصلی ترین دغدغه پدران رشته روابط بین الملل دو ری از جنگ بود تا دورانی که واقع گرایان ... more از زمانی که اصلی ترین دغدغه پدران رشته روابط بین الملل دو ری از جنگ بود تا دورانی که واقع گرایان جنگ ها را ناگزیردنیای آنارشیستی دانستند، از دورانی که توازن دوقطبی در غالب جنگ سرد جزء مقدسات برخی اندیشمندان روابط شده بود تاروزگاری که منادیان پایان تاریخ اوتو پیای جهان تک قطبی لیبرال را نوید می دادند، سالیان بسیاری سپری شده و دنیای نظریاتروابط بین الملل تحولات زیادی را تجربه کرده است. تز و آنتی تزهای متعددی مطرح شده و گرایش ها و نگرشهای گوناگوندر این رشته هرکدام با عینک شناخت شناسی و هستی شناسی مخصوص به خود تلاش نموده اند بخشی از معمای روابط بینالملل را حل کند. اکنون پس از گذشت صد سال تجربه و آزمون و خطا این رشته به مرحله میانسالی خود رسیده است. از همی نرو امروزه نو عی سعه صدر و احتیاط در میان دانش آموختگان این رشته دیده می شود که در دهه های پیش کمتردیده می شد.احتیاطی که از یکسو حاصل نقدهای جدی به کاربست های ناکام نظریات جریان غالب در این رشته (رئالیسم و لیبرالیسم) است و از سویی نتیجه مسئله مند سازی مد عیات معرفت شناسانه و هستی شناسانه متعارف در این رشته. این وقوف به جایگاه خویشتن پژوهشگران روابط بین الملل را برآن داشته است تا رواداریشان در برابر محاجه ها بیشتر کنند، دریچه ذهنشان را برو ینظریات جدید و نوآورانه باز نگه دارند و از نقدهای بنیادین و اساسی نهراسند زیرا که در طول سالیان گذشته این نقدها از یکسوحاملان نظریات جریان غالب را تشویق نموده تا با بازبینی مبانی و روشهای گذشته به گونه ها و بیانهای جدیدی از تئوریهای قبلی دست یابند و از سویی دیگر راه را بر ای ظهور نگرشهای جدید هموار ساخته و این هردو رخداد به رشته روابط بین المل لجانی تازه بخشیده و به غنای آن افزوده است. از جمله نگرشهای انتقاد محور در عرصه روابط بین الملل پروژه رویکردهای غیرغربی است. این رویکرد مد عی است صرفا مفهوم پردازی و نظریه پردازی غربی از مسائل و پدیده های روابط بین المل نمی تواندهمه واقعیت های این حوزه را پوشش دهد.
The geopolitics of the Mediterranean region has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century,... more The geopolitics of the Mediterranean region has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century, partly as a result of local state dynamics and partly as a product of transformational changes at the international and broader regional levels. As opposed to the early 1990s, the EU today is no longer the dominant or key actor in the Mediterranean and it now has to balance its policies and interests in the Mediterranean against the perceptible influence of a range of major and regional powers, most importantly the United States, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Turkey, and Israel. In order to remain an influential actor, the EU needs to understand how these eight powers perceive the Mediterranean, interact with and within it, and conduct themselves in pursuit of their interests. This volume is the first of its kind which aims at shedding light on these issues – on how these powers have been constructing, or at least attempted to construct, different geopolitical imaginations of what the EU has labelled the Mediterranean region, and how their identity formations has impacted their role. Applying a common framework of analysis the contributors to this volume explore these and related issues comprehensively and systematically, shedding new light on these actors’ foreign policy and geopolitical considerations, in the process discerning with which actors in the Mediterranean they most closely interact, and the methods and policy areas they have tended to focus on. In so doing, the volume will show the areas of divergence, competition and conflict, between these actors, as well as the basis on which the EU can cooperate with one or more of these influential states for mutual benefit.