نشریه مطالعات منافع ملی
پیاپی 3 (بهار 1395)

Democracy in Political Thought of Information Age ScholarsMahdi AgabararyDr.Hasan Shamsini GhiasvandAbstract:Political phenomena such as democracy are defined in time and place context. In fact, the definition and components of political phenomena such as democracy would be transformed social, political and even technological transformation. Although democracy has a long term historical record, the changes in all dimensions of human life, including technology, economy, family, lifestyle, globalization and media have transformed the nature of democracy. Moreover, increasing challenges in societies such as identity crisis and moral crisis, superficiality, decline of thought in society, specialization, complication, increase of fear among people, anxiety and disappointments, increase of welfare would transform the meaning and function of democracy. So, philosophers such as Jürgen Habermas, Alain Touraine, Pierre Bourdieu and David Held have talked about cosmopolitan, emotional, consultative and electronic democracy which are responsible to human in political, economic, moral sphere in twenty first century.Key Words: Democracy, Globalization, David Held, Media, Identity Crisis

The study of the Brain Drain in Iran; 2006-2016Toraj SabzevariDr. Malek ZolghadrAbstract:The brain drain has posed challenges to our society in recent decades. It has always been harmful to the society. Various factors are responsible for the brain drain as a very complicated phenomena. The research conducted in order to study socio-political factors influenced on the brain drain in Iran since 2006-2016. The research is a descriptive-analytical research conducted by library and documentary style. Moreover, it is conducted by structured interview. Its statistical society are specialists and elites who decided to emigrate. The findings of the research suggest socio-political factors have significant impact on the brain drain phenomena.Key Words:Brain Drain,Elite, Socio-Political factors, Globalization

The Reasons of Iran's Military Presence in SyriaAli BigdeliDr.Ebrahim AbbassiAbstract:The relativeness is one of the distinctive characteristics of relations between actors in international politics scene. Every country considers the defining characteristic in order to set its goals and to pursue its interests, and therefore, to establish the friendly, hostile or neutral relations with other countries. It is obvious that Iran and Russia are not excluded from this rule. In fact, the ups and downs in relations between two countries in recent century resulted from this rule that distances or closes two countries with each other. Rapid and complicated developments in the Middle East, especially in Syria, are considered as a milestone in relations between two countries. Despite some differences between two countries, these developments have established some common ground in relations between Iran and Russia. In this article, the authors have tried to gain better understanding of recent developments in relations between two countries.Key Words: Syria,Terrorism,Security,ISIS,United States,Military Strategy

Regional Competition between Iran and Saudi Arabia and its Impact on YemenMojtaba HidaryDr. Javad salehiAbstract:Yemen government could not strongly support its citizens and failed to protect its people against violence. The crisis, resulted from Arab Spring, had a huge impact on the region and the world. Given the lack of central powerful government in Yemen, it became a failed state and, therefore regional powerful actors such as Iran and Saudi Arabia have begun to compete with each other in order to maximize their interest. After the overthrow of the Yemeni government, Saudi Arabia's zero sum game on Iran has intensified the regional chaos. The study tries to answer the question: How do competition between Iran and Saudi Arabia influence on events in Yemen and its people? The research conducted by analytical and descriptive data. The first, the authors would analyze the vacuum resulted from 2011 Arab Spring and regional transformation which provoke regional rivals to ensure their survival. Moreover, so many local and international terrorist groups, resulted from the lack of effective military, would lead to desalination and expansion threat. Ultimately, the military intervention of Saudi Arabia would result in irreversible humanitarian crisis, immigration, economic collapse, starvation and malnutrition which pose a threat to millions of Yemenis.Key Word: Competition between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen, Regional Stabilization, Proxy War

Inefficiency of Iran's Political PartiesSyed Raeof AzimiDr. Masoud MotallebiAbstract:Since Persian Constitutional Revolution, parties and associations have been one of the important issues in Iran's political scene. Though one hundred years precedent and despite free political climate in some period of times, no coherent and comprehensive party could perform a useful function and meet the goals of this political phenomenon. The article would seek to analyze the reason why Iran's political parties are inefficient and non-institutionalized. So, we would deal with economic, cultural, historical, structural, judicial and legal reasons of their inefficiency.Key Words: Inefficiency, Political Parties, economic reason, cultural reason, historical reason, structural reason, judicial reason

Take a Look at the Relations between Iran and Iraq after Oust of SaddamHasan NikobinDr. Mohsen JalilvandAbstract:Over recent decades, Iraq has been considered as a security threat to Iran. Iran is the most influential regional actor in Iraq. Given the collapse of the Saddam regime, the establishment of a democratic political system in Iraq and participation of all Iraqi groups in power structure, especially the participation of Shia groups in power structure, has created conditions that could end security threat from Iraq and even make Iraq as a political and economic partner for Iran. Geographic proximity would force Iranian and Iraqi politician to improve their bilateral relations which benefit two countries. Undoubtedly, putting obstacles in the way of relation between two countries would create many problems that is not in the interest of both sides and the region.Key Words: Iraq, Iran, Mutual Interest, Regional Stability, Security