Modern Nation-States and the Conflict

Hossien Salimi

Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2015, Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.22054/tssq.2015.1803

Abstract
  Purpose: Since the time that all social phenomena and political interactions of man formed in the framework of new nation-states and social and cultural identities defined in this new framework, notwithstanding much emphasis on the idea of peace and its value and significance, indeed the bloodiest and ...  Read More

The Elementary Forms of Petro-Life (Towards Transforming Rentierism and Rentier State Literature)

Sajjad Sattari

Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2015, Pages 23-58

https://doi.org/10.22054/tssq.2015.1804

Abstract
  The author formulates "Hydrocarbonism" (as an alternative to the rentierism and rentier state theories) and proposes a set of new concepts such as "Hydrocarbon Man, Hydrocarbon Society, Hydrocarbon Mode of Production, Quasi-Market, Middle Eastern State of Nature, Middle Eastern Social Contract, Middle ...  Read More

Introduction to Political Instability: Towards a Comprehensive and Updated Model

Abolfazl Delavari

Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2015, Pages 59-93

https://doi.org/10.22054/tssq.2015.1805

Abstract
  Purpose: Political instability is an issue that has always been attracted attention rulers and scholars. in recent decades to research on this subject has been developed. In Iran, the studies and researches on this topic are increasingly expending. However, this studies and research are not yet accurate ...  Read More

The Concept of State and the Notion of Responsibility to Protect: a Comparative View by Focusing on Foucault's Thoughts

Aramesh Shahbazi

Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2015, Pages 96-110

https://doi.org/10.22054/tssq.2015.1806

Abstract
  The discipline of political science has developed many international legal principles, norms, concepts, agreements, and institutions in realm of contemporary international law. One of the key issues regarding the technique and the structure of this evolution is the mutual interrelation between philosophy, ...  Read More

Nation-State Challenges in the Age of Globalization

Salman Sadeghi Zadeh

Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2015, Pages 90-100

https://doi.org/10.22054/tssq.2015.1807

Abstract
  Purpose: Nation state is a newly-constructed institution established in the wake of United States declaration of independence and has been spreading all over the world in recent centuries. But nowadays nation-state is in retreat and this is the main problem that this article aims to address. In fact, ...  Read More

Politics, Paidea and the State: The Political and Its Inter-Subjectiv Foundtion

Ahmad Khaleghi Damghani; Hamid Malekzade

Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2015, Pages 136-166

https://doi.org/10.22054/tssq.2015.1808

Abstract
  For centuries one of the most important issues studied by philosophers and political theorists relating to the concept of state should be investigated in relation with the matter of education and politics. This issue has been, in a way, the first theoretical conjuncture regarding the politics in the ...  Read More

State Bureaucracy and Departure of Some Experts from Iran: Aomparative Introduction

Masoud Ghafari; Fariba Tarjoman

Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2015, Pages 167-198

https://doi.org/10.22054/tssq.2015.1809

Abstract
  Purpose: The present study aims to investigate the relationship between inefficient bureaucracy and specialists’ exit from Iran in the ninth and tenth government time period as the main question of the research in the framework of this hypothesis that bureaucratic inefficiency in Iran is one of ...  Read More