جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "cultural plurality" در نشریات گروه "علوم انسانی"

The transition from high politics to low politics, rising the importance of socio-cultural forces in policy-making on one hand, and considering minorities as transnational identity, on the other hand, leads to analyzing the influence of ethnic minorities in foreign policy. However, the depth of ignoring minorities went so much that has been considered a culture-averse issue. Despite the cultural globalization and seating on the third level of politics, the readers of international relations consider this social force as a by-product of mutual relations between the processes of state-building and anarchic structure. However, ethnicity is essentially a political issue. But the changing system of foreign policymaking in the post-cold war era has not only provided ethnic pluralism affected by lobbying groups but also encouraged the ethnic minorities to influence policymaking. In other words, the internationalization of domestic politics as the products of ethnic activities and the evolution of communicative technologies led to the qualitative activities of ethnic minorities. However, the under-representation of ethnic groups led to political issues. Thus, this paper tries to explain the relations between ethnic minorities and foreign policy. According to the main hypothesis, political and democratic representation in decision-making will compensate for this gap. Finally, by applying the theory of sociology of pluralism, this paper will employ the analytic method to test the mentioned hypothesis.

The fourth century(A.H) is considered as the most brilliant period of Islamic history and civilization, for its variety of thinking and responsible free thinking. We can call this period, the age of scientific and philosophical circles far from dogmatism and known demarcations in the religious societies, and in the same time, different from some scientific circles in the new age which consider free thinking against commitment to the religion and divine relevance. If we accept the humanism and rationalism as the connonical core of free thinking, we should call the fourth Islamic century, as one of the most liberal periods of human history which appeared centuries before western Rennaisens with orientation of human concerns and rational approaches, but did not see any controversy between this open mind and commitment to the religion. Therefore, we can accept the idea of some idiographers of fourth century that the humanism of that period was religious one with signs of philosophy and literature, and its rationalism was feeded by divine data as well as human heritage and the knowledge of ancestors. It didn't refuse dialogue with non-religious and atheist peoples. This article tries to discover the dimensions of this religious free thinking and its characteristics and theoretical bases including humanism and rationalism which are the most important bases.