Foreign policy matters: a normative view of the G8 and population health.

Generalist Constructivism: A Comprehensive Solution to Explain Iran's Behaviors in its Foreign Policy after the Islamic Revolution

This article believes that Islamic republic of Iran's foreign policy is influenced by the discourse of revolution in domestic level on one hand and by peaceful or aggressive atmosphere ruling international system on the other hand. Therefore to provide a proper analysis of Islamic republic of Iran's behaviors in its foreign policy after the revolution it is necessary to understand discourse and...

Making G8 leaders deliver: an analysis of compliance and health commitments, 1996-2006.

International health policy-makers now have a variety of institutional instruments with which to pursue their global and national health goals. These instruments range from the established formal multilateral organizations of the United Nations to the newer restricted-membership institutions of the Group of Eight (G8). To decide where best to deploy scarce resources, we must systematically exam...

Politics Matters: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health

Global health research is essentially a normative undertaking: we use it to propose policies that ought to be implemented. To arrive at a normative conclusion in a logical way requires at least one normative premise, one that cannot be derived from empirical evidence alone. But there is no widely accepted normative premise for global health, and the actors with the power to set policies may use...

تأثیر ایدئولوژی بر منافع ملی و امنیت ملی در سیاست خارجی جمهوری اسلامی ایران: با تاکید بر اندیشه امام خمینی(ره)

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, led by Imam Khomeini as a religious authority, helped establish a political order whose domestic and foreign policy was based on Islamic ideology. The aim of this study was to investigate Imam Khomeini’s discourse of foreign policy in relation to national interests and security, and Islamic ideology on three levels, namely, ideology, strategy, and diploma...