فصلنامه امنیت پژوهی
پیاپی 61 (بهار 1397)

Today it is very important to pay attention to the serious damages caused by economic corruption, because it becomes widespread in different societies, and it has some important security, economic, social and cultural challenges for the country. Moreover, Economic corruption uses the money to serve the power and brings the power in the service of the money. Therefore, dealing with it has always been one of the points of concern for societies. This study, which is of a qualitative nature, and also, it is based on the grounded theory, is an attempt to recognize the guidelines of Iranian supreme leader’s discourse approaches to dealing with economic corruption. To this end, the statements made by the Supreme Leader on his electronic site are the basis for the study. After referring to the statements made by the Leader, the data were analyzed using the grounded theory strategy. Data analysis In the Grounded Theory Strategy, involves the three stages including; open coding, axial coding and selective coding. Furthermore, data collection and data coding were conducted simultaneously, and finally, after categorizing the data and information the new concepts were formed. The Findings of the study indicated that dealing with economic corruption can bring about the effects and consequences in line with an ideal Islamic society in individual, social and national domains. Also, considering the topics including causal conditions, intervening conditions, context, strategies, and outcomes are among the findings of this study

The history of strategic and security studies in Iran dates back to more than a decade (from the middle of the 70’s solar year). In this period various studies have been published in this field in different forms. This set the ground for the localization and application of the concepts and discussions of security studies in Iran. Although the works published during this period are not that much, but they are enough to allow for a critical review. So, this study was an attempt to examine the research methodology based on five original and native text in security studies. Therefore, the main question of the study is that; what are the most important methodological problems of the research conducted in the national security studies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The primary answer to this question can be found in four main problems: the problem of explanation, the perceived problem, the problem of prediction, and the control problem. These four aspects are the most important issues in the behavioral science research methods that can be seen in our country’s security studies. These are the successive problems, and the most important problem is the problem of explanation, that causes the other problems. In other words, the difficulty in explaining makes it difficult to grasp the real and objective, as well as the anticipation and control of security issues. This study claims that solving these four major problems will provide a good basis for the scientific study and method of Iran’s national security studies

The spread of urbanization and the prevalence of social insecurities in the cities on the one hand, and the importance and sensitivity of the security in the border towns on the other hand, led the researchers to conduct the present study, which aimed to analyze the effects of the components such as; the socio-economic level, social capital, and the quality of life, on the feeling of social security in urban areas of Saravan city.This is an applied research,in which the descriptive- correlational techniques were used, and the data collection procedure was conducted using a survey. The statistical population of the study was 19423 families in urban areas of Saravan, among which a number of 209 of families were selected through proportional sampling method.The face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed using experts’ opinions. The construct validity and the reliability of the research tool were also obtained by measuring the model and making the required adjustments. The research hypotheses were tested using Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling, in SPSSwin22 and AMOS21 software.Finally, the findings of the study indicated that social capital and quality of life had the greatest effects on the formation of social security feeling in the studied areas, respectively. The results also showed that the socioeconomic variable has no direct and significant effect on the feeling of social security in the urban areas of Saravan.

The sociological Analysis of security in Siyasatnama book by Nizam al-Mulk,,is a comparative analysis of the “security from the sociological point of view of “ and the “literary text of Siyasatnama. Security and its sociology, in part, are not related to the field of the functioning of language and literature, but a reflective view to the literacy text of Siyasatnama, shows the existence of such a political-defense and social phenomenon. The researchers’ efforts were mainly focused on the findings of the text of the Siyasatnama and its adaptation to the ideas and the concepts of security and sociology, not the comparison of these concepts with the text of Sierra-Al-Muluk.The findings of the present study, which conducted using descriptive- analytical methods, showed that books such as Sierra Al-Muluk, are suitable resources for designing the thoughts and sociology of security strategies and its occurrence in society. A scientist minister, like Nizam al-Mulk, has tried to use the “story”, “allegory” or “anecdote” tools to necessitate the adhering to the universal security of the people for Seljuk king of Iran. A historical account of Khajeh’s success in this area is reported.

The US strategic culture has always been fueled by the involvement of a set of political and military actors who advised the US president based on their experiences, ideas, thoughts and perceptions of security threats and US accountability and responses. During the Trump administration, with the growing role of anti-Iranian forces in the structure of the US decision making in security issues, the US strategic culture has undergone changes that are of great importance to Iran. Given the tension between Iran and the US, securitizing of Iran can have important outcomes for Iran. Accordingly, the main question of the study is whether the change in some of the elements that feed the US strategic culture, can lead to Iran’s re-securitizing? In fact, the purpose of this study is to examine the sources of the development of the re-securitization discourse of Iran in the formation of the US strategic culture. Using the first-hand content analysis method, this study analyzes the views toward Iran, from the US strategic culture point of view during the Trump administration, and examines the components of Iran’s re-securitizing project. It was hypothesized that the Trump’s securitizing discourse, brings Iran into “ antagonist others “ form, but in specifying “preferred self” it is disturbed and ambiguous; therefore, the othering relations between self / other is not properly and clearly formed. Consequently, this discourse cannot appropriately perform its main function of temporary fixing the meaning of re-securitizing Iran

In today’s rapidly changing world, the successful organizations are those that learn faster and better than competitors, and make use of these learned lessons in their working processes. The purpose of this study was to identify the obstacles to organizational learning in security organizations. In this applied research the descriptive-analytical method was used. The sample size of the study includes a number of 62 professors and faculty members of the security forces universities of the armed forces, that has been selected randomly among 189 members of the statistical population. Attempts were made to answer to this question that what are the barriers to learning in security organizations. A questionnaire consisting of 53 items about the variables of the study was developed, and after the distributing and collecting the data, responses were analyzed using SPSS software. The results showed that the most important barriers to organizational learning in Security agencies include:Getting not enough support from the senior managers, the tendency to do things using old fashion methods, the lack of dissemination of critical culture in the organization, the organization’s resistance to new ideas, not attending to educational ideas in practice, the lack of awareness of managers about the necessary changes, inability in having critical views, managers’ inefficiency in recording, encouraging,and honoring of sharing insight into the organization