جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « reformist islam » در نشریات گروه « علوم سیاسی »

Contemporary intellectual environment of Iran has provided the opportunity for different and even contradictory thoughts and discourses about politics and government to take place in the shadow of modernism and Islamism contrast. Beheshti was one of intellectuals representing centrism in religious intellectualism under such condition. In the light of a dynamic practice of religious jurisprudence and a rational understanding of religion, he tried to provide a pattern of Islamic political system so that such values as democracy and freedom would be guaranteed, despite boundaries existing between it and Marxism and liberalism. In the paper, effort has been made to provide a critical understanding regarding his thoughts about politics and government, with consideration of intellectual and scientific backgrounds.

At the present, structure of international system is featured by the continuation of U.S. dominance and its determinant power. Also, the Middle East is encountering with a new structure of relationship among powerful countries in economic and military dimensions in the 21st century. The central idea of this article is that although the United States has demonstrated unilateral inclinations in different periods of global and regional conditions, the new realities of the Middle East implies addressing a comprehensive approach in order
to explain the issue of the national security in the region. The main question of this article is whether the present structure of international system paves the way for U.S. dominance. The findings of this article demonstrate that conflict and violence are not
effective instruments to resist against the U.S. unilateralism. Instead mechanisms like tolerance, rationality and interaction may be more useful in order to prevent the consolidation of U.S. dominance in the Middle East.