پژوهشنامه علوم سیاسی
سال ششم شماره 2 (پیاپی 22، بهار 1390)

According to the “Islamic Political Economy Meta-theory" for which we would suggest a formulation in this article, ultimate aims of Islam is pursued through the clarification of the interaction between Politics and Economics in Islam. Emphasizing the enhancement of the efficiency of political and economic objectives, both of which serving human spiritual integrity i.e. Islamic culture, the Islamic Political Economy Meta-theory is clarified in three levels: 1- Beliefs; 2- Spiritual and Human Values; and 3- Justice and development. Posing our research question, “How the fundamentals of the Islamic Political Economy Meta-theory are clarified?”, this article would discuss and prove the fact that the Islamic political economy links systematically to Economy, Politics and Culture, recognizing which is comprehensible in a general and harmonious system, to the extent that it is a mean to advance ultimate aims of Islam i.e. the attainment to the stage of human integrity and spiritual values, besides enhancing the political and economic efficiency. Hence, emphasizing the ontological and epistemological aspects of Politics and Economics and their interrelation in Islam, this article would suggest "the Islamic Political Economy Meta-theory" formula.

It has been long since the formation of a cumulative and collective project in the production of an inclusive and universal knowledge called social science and the application of power through it. Social science, as developed within the large and dominant systems, has visualized forms of thought and culture that have deterritorialized the “minority” sciences, as Deleuze and Guattari named, or the “subjection” sciences, as Foucault called and deprived continuously the non-western thought from forming its local knowledge in such arena (social science). But it is now the time for the uprising of under subjection sciences. Perhaps a thoughtful reflection on Foucault’s doctrine is needed today more than any other time, saying: Fundamental bringing up of under subjection sciences would contribute to reveal the secret link between knowledge and power; a link “through which a society conveys its knowledge and guarantees its survival behind the veil of knowledge” and Deleuze statement may be emphasized that: “reterritorialization” of minority sciences would definitely act as the “encouragement of a future revolutionary system”.

Political science, as a discipline, is a plural and diverse science, as politics itself is. Indigenization has been a central concern in all affairs including modern science as well as political science, since the Islamic revolution In Iran, but in recent years, it has apparently increased. In this paper, we evaluate the strict sense of Indigenization in political science and its applications. Indigenization at least in political science may carry three meanings: 1. increasing the educational debates akin to Iranian governance and society. 2. Making political researches applicable in Iran. 3. Changing the nature and essence of political science. Findings show that most educational issues as well as research studies in political science related to Indigenization have been realized and are being applied. Substantial transformation in political science is unnecessary and invalid due to its personalization, isolation of Iranian political knowledge from the world political science, and Iran’s academic failure in this regard, and losing the critical characteristics of this discipline.

In Iran one can find numerous researches done on Israel and many researchers have endeavored to study the Zionist regime from various aspects. However, there is no research on the state of the art on Israel studies in the country. This article seeks to shed light on the state of the art on Israel studies in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Accordingly, the main question here would be “what is the status of Israel studies in Iran?” To answer the question, this article will survey the available literature on Israel in the country, so to provide a rather complete map on the status of these studies and highlight the research gaps in this area of knowledge which has to be considered by researchers while revealing weaknesses and strengths of such studies. Accordingly, this article has nothing to do with the content and data existing in this literature (including descriptions, explanations and prescriptions). To study and analyze critically the content of research done regarding Israel in Iran, there would be a need for further research.

Using bibliographic records from the ISI database, this paper seeks to give a complete view of scientific products in the field of international relations. The time period considered in this study is 2000-2009. Findings revealed 34685 scientific products indexed in ISI database in the field of international relations during the period of 2000-2009. Results indicated that "Freedman" and "Ikenberry" with 140 and 135 products, respectively, (0.79 %) hold the first rank in producing scientific works in the realm of international relations. "London School of Economics and Political Science" holding 494 records (1.42%), "Harvard University" holding 391 records (1.13%), and "King's College London" holding 370 records (1.07%) have been the most active institutes, worldwide, in the field of international relations. The trend of scientific production also showed some onward increase in products since 2005. It should be noted that among all journals studied, "International Affairs", having published 8.86% of the total social products, has earned the first rank in publishing products in the field of international relations. On the other hand, it revealed that Iran’s share in the world scientific products in the field of the international relations has been only 15 which is equal to 0.043% of the total products in the same field. "Sariolghalam" and "Barzegar" are known as the most productive researchers in the said field in Iran. From among 15 products in Iran, 5 works have been published in the journal of "Middle East Policy". Finally, the article entitled "The paradox of Iran`s Nuclear consensus" which has received 2 citations is considered as the most cited and influential Iranian article in international relations arena.

International Relations has been seen as an “American” or “Western” discipline for a long time. In some countries such as Iran there have been calls for developing “indigenous” versions of IR theory. Yet this has not been accompanied by serious efforts for introducing new frameworks to the international community of IR scholars. During the last few years, non-Western perspectives on international relations have become more attractive and now there seems to be more chance for non-Western IR scholars to have their voice heard in the field. This article argues that this new opening can be partly explained by recent theoretical developments in the field. Cultural theory, pragmatism, postcolonialism, and quantum perspective can in particular contribute to a more favorable context for different indigenous theorizing in International Relations.

There has been always some unwillingness and refusal in the academic community of Iran and most other countries with respect to issues related to intelligence organizations. Defining the intelligence studies and studying its ontological and methodological status, this article seeks to identify its status as an academic field of study and emphasize the necessity of the intelligence studies in academic arena. The Main question of the article is: “What is the Intelligence Studies and where is its place among other Academic fields of studies? Considering characteristics of intelligence studies, the author believes in an independent ontology for this field of studies and argues that these studies may be said to be a subfield of political science and international relations. He also calls intelligence studies as a necessary, though unattended, factor in political and international understanding.