International Journal of Political Science: 5 (4)

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1 - The Impact of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Central Asia’s Security
Mohammadreza Dehshiri Hedayat Allah Nobar Turkaman Fatemeh Hashemi

This paper tries to address the impact of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Central Asian security. This organization was established on April 26, 1996 to settle security and territorial disputes between China and Russia and Central Asian countries (other than Uz More

This paper tries to address the impact of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Central Asian security. This organization was established on April 26, 1996 to settle security and territorial disputes between China and Russia and Central Asian countries (other than Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan). After the accession of Uzbekistan to this assembly, the level of the organization was promoted, and its geographic scope has been expanded in the following years by the membership of new countries. Although significant changes have been made and economic issues have been raised in the process of developments in this regional security cooperation, this organization has paid attention to security-military disputes and problems. The main question of the paper is how does the Shanghai Cooperation Organization play a role in the Central Asia’s security? This paper fully addresses the impact of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Central Asia, and the effects of this organization on the security and stability of Central Asia with the settlement of regional conflicts, such as fighting against terrorism, separatism and extremism, drug and arms trade, organizational crimes, concerns about insecurity and domestic instability, and in particular the occurrence of color revolutions in countries and confronting with American influence and unilateralism. Manuscript profile

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2 - The Consequences of Iran's Islamic Revolution on Saudi Shiites Socio - political Situation
Ahmad Jansiz Farzaneh Rahmati

Iran's Islamic revolution had so many effects on political, social, cultural and economic conditions of Shiites outside of Iran and caused a special formation of Muslims identity beliefs in the world, especially Shia Muslims. Islamic revolution was a turning point in th More

Iran's Islamic revolution had so many effects on political, social, cultural and economic conditions of Shiites outside of Iran and caused a special formation of Muslims identity beliefs in the world, especially Shia Muslims. Islamic revolution was a turning point in the Saudi Shia movement to get their spoiled rights by governance structure in Saudi Arabia and helped Shia movements to revive and increase their influence in political and social arenas and led to dynamic Shiite Islamic movements and relatively political open space which had been restricted by Saudi Arabia's rulers. The present study wants to answer to this question that; what are the effects of Iran's Islamic Revolution on Saudi Shiite socio- political situation? Islamic Revolution as a phenomenon in the Middle East which was based on religious beliefs and democracy became a new management paradigm on the concept of resistance inside the notions of Shia and partially removed Saudi Shiite restrictions. At the conclusion of this paper we can see that, Islamic Revolution as a unique phenomenon had so many effects on the socio- political conditions of Shia in the region and also had special effects on campaign organizations in line with restoration of political and social identity of Shia communities in Saudi Arabian. Manuscript profile

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3 - Iraqi Shiites and Their Interaction with the Occupying Forces after the fall of Saddam
Zeinab Ssadat Mirmohammadi Nayereh Mirzababaei Samaneh Keshvardoost

The logical, scientific and realistic analysis of the new developments in Iraq, due to various indicators such as the power of Shiite currents, the existence of influential leaders and the presence of foreign invaders, inevitably leads us to consider only the foreign in More

The logical, scientific and realistic analysis of the new developments in Iraq, due to various indicators such as the power of Shiite currents, the existence of influential leaders and the presence of foreign invaders, inevitably leads us to consider only the foreign invaders' perspective, here in this article. In fact, understanding Iraq's developments after Saddam will be a significant part of the future of the land, as the occupation's role in the fall of Saddam Hussein is a facilitating factor of the new situation of Shiites in Iraq. After the invasion by coalition forces and declination of Saddam's regime, the necessary conditions for the participation of all groups in Iraq's new political structure was provided. Groups opposing the Baathist regime previously established in Britain, USA, and Iran and returned to Iraq in order to participate in Iraq's new political structure. The Shiites seeking greater influence on the process of future developments in Iraq and did not show any resistance against the occupation. This research aims to investigate the interactive policy of the Shiites of Iraq against the occupiers. Manuscript profile

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4 - The Role of Virtual News Networks on Voting Behavior (Case study: Political Science Students Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch in 26 February 2016 Election)
Zeynab Dehghani Hassan Abniki

Thepresent study aims to investigate the impact of the virtual news networks onpolitical participation of Iranians in parliamentary election on 26 February2016. The method of this paper is descriptive. The statistical population ispolitical students of Islamic Azad Univ More

Thepresent study aims to investigate the impact of the virtual news networks onpolitical participation of Iranians in parliamentary election on 26 February2016. The method of this paper is descriptive. The statistical population ispolitical students of Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, inundergraduate and postgraduate level in the academic year 2014-2015. The samplesize was 148 students who are selected by cluster sampling method. Aquestionnaire was used to collect data. In this paper, Kolmogorov-Smirnov testwas used to investigate the normal distribution of the main variables. Spss22software was used to analyze the statistical data. The results indicate thatvirtual news networks can directly affect the evaluation of the individual,which is conducted by his relatives. Furthermore providing the facilities forvirtual electoral activity affects voting behavior of students of politicalsciences from Tehran University, South branch. Manuscript profile

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5 - The long-term and short-term factors affecting the Arab Revolutions
Garineh Keshishyan Siraki Majid Alavian

With the emergence of the phenomenon of "Arab revolutions", the Middle East has entered a new era. The investigation of the goals of the Arab revolutions requires their pathology. The developments of the Arab world, although occurred with the self-immolation of a young More

With the emergence of the phenomenon of "Arab revolutions", the Middle East has entered a new era. The investigation of the goals of the Arab revolutions requires their pathology. The developments of the Arab world, although occurred with the self-immolation of a young Tunisian and its widespread reflection in the global media, but these events origins returns to the previous years. These countries have a wide range of problems. It seems that the intellectual movements which have been occurred in the Middle East and the Muslim world in the last 100 years, have brought new demands and implications into the peoples live of this part of the world that have been ignored by the ruling systems and eventually has led to the emergence of the "Arab Spring." These factors include economic crises such as unemployment, demographic and demographic changes in Arab countries, bribery being of governments and dependence on windfall wealth or foreign helps, widespread corruption among government officials and the gap between the poor and rich. On the one hand, however, another factor, along with the above issues, has deepened the legitimacy crisis and, on the other hand, has accelerated the process of changes and that is the globalization and expansion of Cyber space. In fact, under the influence of the globalization of the access of Arab youth to the Internet, and in particular Social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter have been facilitated, and while creating cyber base challenged the legitimacy of a system, and, on the other hand, They have brought the crisis of legitimacy, and in addition that planned their campaign communities and organizing. In this article, we will try to address the external factors in the process of the Arabic countries democratization. Manuscript profile

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6 - Comparative Study of the Concept of Justice in Imam Khomeini and SayyidQutb’s Political Thought
Seyed Hassan Malaekeh Aazam Khedri

Justice is one of the most important tendencies andinteractions in human existence that sustains the human society. In addition,one of the fundamental concepts in the field of political theories that havebeen the first concern of humanity since the early days and the mi More

Justice is one of the most important tendencies andinteractions in human existence that sustains the human society. In addition,one of the fundamental concepts in the field of political theories that havebeen the first concern of humanity since the early days and the minds of many scholarshave been involved in the concept of justice. Imam Khomeini and SayyidQutb arethe major thinkers who have been involved in the theorizing in this field andaccording to their position; they have been implementing it in the community.These two great contemporary thinkers of Islam in the field of justice areknown as influential figures. In this paper, it has been attempted to analyzeand analyze the concept of justice in the political approach of the two majorthinkers and philosophers of the Islamic world. The results of the study showedthat: Imam Khomeini and SayyidQutb differ in the definition of justice, theimportance of justice in their speeches and the areas of justice, and each hasa special view in these fields Manuscript profile

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