By: Vali Kouzehgar Kaleji
International Peace Studies Center (IPSC)
Khalid Rahman is Director General of the Islamabad-based think-tank, the Institute of Policy Studies. The Institute’s main areas of research include Pakistani society, domestic political scene, the economic …

By: Vali Kouzehgar Kaleji
International Peace Studies Center (IPSC)

Bilgehan Alagoz holds a full-time faculty position as a lecturer at Institute for Middle East Studies of Marmara University, Istanbul. She was a visiting fellow at Middle …

 
Mohammad Sadegh Jokar
International Peace Studies Centre (IPSC) 

Abstract
 
This article tries to answer two questions; why is it that radical Islamists, or, as I prefer to call them, neo-fundamentalists,[1] engage in violent actions against the West? And …

 
Tahmoures Gholami
International Peace Studies Centre – IPSC
Abstract:
2011 began with the turmoil of the Arab Spring in the Middle East. These events altered circumstances in the region, and forced the United States, the world power with …

By Vali Kouzehgar Kaleji
International Peace Studies Center (IPSC)
Dr. Mitat Çelikpala is Associate Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University, İstanbul. He was born in Ankara on 19 October 1969. He graduated from Middle …

By Vali Kouzehgar Kaleji
International Peace Studies Center (IPSC)
PRZEMYSŁAW OSIEWICZ – born in 1979, graduated in political science in the field of international relations from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Currently an Assist. Prof. at AMU …

Seyed Abdolamir Nabavi
Institute for Social and Cultural Studies (ISCS), Tehran, Iran

Abstract
Islamic Radicalism in the Arab World, despite many years of serious and constant struggles, has been unable to attain its most important goal: the establishment …

Dr. Mehrdad Navabakhsh[1]
Dr. Tahere Torabi[2]
Abstract
This problem exists in terms of dealing with the government’s immediate behaviour of killing protesters, as well as what to do with a government that has never been an ally …

 
Shireen T. Hunter
IPSC, Washington D.C
Abstract
 
 
               Since January 2011 the countries of the Middle East and North Africa have experienced popular uprisings. In two countries Egypt and Tunisia these have led to the unseating of the …

 
 
 
Yaser Miri
International Peace Studies Centre – IPSC
 
Abstract
            After the new government led by Barack Obama came to power in the United States, earlier criticism directed at Bush administration’s policies and the Republicans’ conduct towards Afghanistan …

 
Zohreh Poustinchi
University of Tehran and IPSC, Iran
 
 
Abstract:
            Regional security is a function of stability and balance of power. When it comes to regional balance, normative constructs and indicators are of particular importance.  As might be …

Shireen Tahmasseb (Hunter)
IPSC, Washington, USA                                                 
Abstract
 
In the last three years, Turkish foreign policy has been very active  in areas such as the Middle East and South Asia which since the establishment of the Turkish Republic have …

 
Wahid Nasiri
International Peace Studies Centre – IPSC 
Abstract:
 
This article first analyses the relations between India and the United states, followed by the relations between Iran and India. Lastly the impact of the United States on …

Ibrahim Mottaghi
University of Tehran and IPSC, Iran
 
Abstract
            Regional security semiotic has a discursive orientation and characteristic. Overall, national security discourses are shaped around linguistic, conceptual, perceptional, contextual, and analytical signs. Theoretically, this paper accepts and …

Dr Seyed G Safavi
International Peace Studies Centre- IPSC
 
Abstract
 
 Despite Obama’s promises that U.S. troops will begin withdrawal from Afghanistan in July 2010, this country still remains in crisis. In spite of spending billions of dollars and the …