Hamid yahyavi
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To address the question of the nature of modern state in the contemporary Iran, the present paper seeks to investigate the issue of state in the contemporary Iran in terms of Foucauldian approach and the conceptual apparatus driven from it. In his late intellectual career, Michael Foucault introduced ...
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To address the question of the nature of modern state in the contemporary Iran, the present paper seeks to investigate the issue of state in the contemporary Iran in terms of Foucauldian approach and the conceptual apparatus driven from it. In his late intellectual career, Michael Foucault introduced a new field into the researches on state in which fundamentally the rationalities underpinning / constituting the state are zeroed in on. The present paper hypothesizes that the drawing, organization and articulation of the modern state in Iran were being done by the governmentality of the pastorship prevailing over the tradition system and the rationalities remained out of the episteme belonged to Iranian previous universe, though it was built in the course of modernization process stimulated by Iranians` encounter with some western forms of governance. The present paper maintains that the tenacity of “the pastorship rationalities of the tradition system” and their being strengthened due to combining with some imperfect rationalities driven from modern era – that is, the rationalities oriented to consolidate the state such as “raison d'état” and “police” – lead to the generation of an “instrumental pastorship” equipped with modern technics and apparatus. Thus, it provided grounds for raising a particular political order which the present paper calls “neo-pastorship”. “Neo-pastorship”, thanks to the modern apparatuses, such as the army or the bureaucracy that was developed in the new age, came to more success in interference and carving power on the body of society.
naser pourhassan
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The nature of the state in Iran is one of the most controversial issues among political science researchers. Unlike new states which were established in the post-colonial era, the state in Iran has a long history, so that it is considered as the first state of history. After the end of the Second World ...
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The nature of the state in Iran is one of the most controversial issues among political science researchers. Unlike new states which were established in the post-colonial era, the state in Iran has a long history, so that it is considered as the first state of history. After the end of the Second World a large part of Iranian state studies focused on the Marxist nature, especially the Stalinist, of the five socio-economic formation. Another part of the state's studies was to criticize and reject the above-mentioned views. The nature of the state in Iran is the main issue of this article. In response to the question of what is the nature of the state in Iran, the following hypothesis has been formulated:with regard to the climatic roots and ecosystem of Iran and the dominance of the Eilat (nomads ), it is possible to formulate a " dawlat -eil"(nomads- state ) for a predecessor Iran, especially from the Seljuk to the end of the Qajar Dynasty . The nomads-state, due to the identity-related, organizational, and military features of the nomads structure, also refers to the formation of the state by the supreme nomads, and includes the nomads that, without being governed, are as quasi Governments ruled over their territory. This hypothesis has been processed by the methodology of historical sociology and the analysis of the nature of the ruling states from Safavid to the end of Qajar by descriptive-analytic method.
Hamid Sajadi
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A great volume of studies and researches are conducted for evaluating Iran's five-year development plans, with the main purpose of overcoming obstacles and realizing the goals of national strategic plans. Considering the large volume of studies on evaluation of development plans, on the one hand, and ...
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A great volume of studies and researches are conducted for evaluating Iran's five-year development plans, with the main purpose of overcoming obstacles and realizing the goals of national strategic plans. Considering the large volume of studies on evaluation of development plans, on the one hand, and the inconsistencies and contradictions of the findings on the other hand, the method of meta-synthesis is adopted by the researcher as an efficient method for systematically summarizing and analyzing the wide range of results. For this purpose, published and unpublished qualitative literature in the context of development programs, dated between 1992 and 2015, were selected. Having reviewed the full-text of these articles, reports and texts, the ones which accurately examined the weaknesses as well as the facilitators of national development programs were chosen and compared with each other. The data were first analyzed via adopting thematic analysis approach and then were reanalyzed through encoding method. The results of the analysis of obstacles against development programs were extracted and interpreted within thirteen themes and five codes of facilitators, namely, convergence and integration of higher education with social system while linking knowledge and industry, promoting balanced development, limiting government in the development process, strengthening social system as the context of development and expansion of international interactions. The findings ultimately suggest the necessity of promoting development through a dynamic systemic approach.
qolamreza khajesarvi; Mohsen Solgi
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This paper is aimed to show the possibility and necessity of New City-state Orientation as a new form of democracy; a new form of democracy in which city and citizenship in the light of deterritorialization and communitarianist pluralism attain a mental and cultural form instead of a bodily-civilizational ...
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This paper is aimed to show the possibility and necessity of New City-state Orientation as a new form of democracy; a new form of democracy in which city and citizenship in the light of deterritorialization and communitarianist pluralism attain a mental and cultural form instead of a bodily-civilizational form. In this paper New City-state Orientation is defined as follows: passing along the concepts of insiders and outsiders, passing along the hierarchical and vertical world to the horizontal world, non-territorialness, mental-culturalness, modification of liberalism because of its extreme individualism with the help of the communitarianist view, emphasis on the concept of “authenticity” or “valuability of difference” beyond the concept of “dignity”, the wane of the big concepts like society and the birth and proliferation of community instead of that. New City-state Orientation, in the communitarianist context and with the view of globalization, while acknowledging the legitimacy of subcultures and local and traditional cultures has taken a non-physical and non-bodily look at the category of city and citizenship.The question of the paper is how we can come to a mutual understanding between responsible citizenship and human rights today. The hypothesis of the question is that in the light of deterritorialization of city and the citizenship we can come to such a mutual understanding.The theoretical framework of the paper is the “the body without organs theory” of Gilles Deleuze and its methodology is analytical-descriptive with the use of library data.
Reza mousazade; mahmood ganjbakhsh
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The way governments deal with the claims of victims of terrorist incidents is one of the most important political issues of the day. Since the Canadian government claims that it fights terrorism the political strategies that govern this government are important in responding to the survivors of the terrorist ...
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The way governments deal with the claims of victims of terrorist incidents is one of the most important political issues of the day. Since the Canadian government claims that it fights terrorism the political strategies that govern this government are important in responding to the survivors of the terrorist events. By accusing the Iranian government, it has done its most important action against one of the victims of terrorism. By using the theory of Barry Buzan in analyzing this action of the Canadian State the findings of this paper show that Canada by utilizing some policies like a particular definition of international terrorism advocating state and regarding Iran as one the biggest countries which advocate terrorism, giving up the diplomatic relation with Iran, repudiating the immunity of Iran’s properties and their seizure in the interests of victims of terrorist attacks in occupies lands is a way of cooperating with the US and Israel. According to Buzan theory about security dilemma and the complexities and contradictions inherent in political choices about that the operation of Canada about the Iranian government's immunity in international law is not defensible. In this article we are looking for answers to this question that "What are the political fields of Canada’s action against Iran?" This review is based on Barry Buzan's theory and was conducted by using descriptive analytical method.
Fariborz Aarghavani; Fatemeh Forootan
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The article’s aim is to study the intellectual bases of formation and continuity of authoritarian state in China. The main question is why china’s political society up to now has helped to form and to continue authoritarian state in this country, while many of the other countries has experienced ...
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The article’s aim is to study the intellectual bases of formation and continuity of authoritarian state in China. The main question is why china’s political society up to now has helped to form and to continue authoritarian state in this country, while many of the other countries has experienced some forms of democracy. This article, to answer the question, by presupposing some factors such as vast territory, agricultural economy and foreign invasion argues that the study of china’s intellectual bases and political thought in three era, ancient- middle and contemporary, shows us that the tradition of authoritarian state in china is deep and it is due to intellectual bases. In other words, political and intellectual thought in various ages has helped to create and reinforce authoritarian state in china. Strong influence of political thought in ancient era, middle era on china’s political action and continuity of Confucius’s tradition and communism are some of the main aspects and factors of the problem. Study of more important political thought about state nature, discussion on some aspects of powerful and authoritarian state in china and introducing china’s political thought in various eras that encourage state power are the main section of the article.
