New Public Diplomacy and Islamic Awakening

Tribal Culture and the Islamic Awakening

Waves of Islamic Revolutionary Awakening and Uprising

The main hypothesis of this article is "three waves of Islamic revolutionary awakening and uprising". Here, these three waves have been studied in terms of their civil, religious and revolutionary aspects from local, regional and global perspective on the short, the mid and the long run as the strategic infrastructure and infrastructural strategy for new uprisings. Important elements will be re...

Islamic Awakening and the Formation of the Islamic Ummah

The main inquiry of this article is what interactions are there between Islamic awakening and the formation of an Islamic ummah. Therefore applying descriptive analysis of documents and offering evidences from Quran and traditions as well as opinions of scholars and reformers such as Imam Khomeini, it has been tried to prove this assumption that there is strategic interactions between Islamic a...

New Media and Peacemaking Diplomacy

A life full of peace has always been a dream for human societies. Peace is still considered as one of the main modern world concerns, because each nation deals with its own kind of violence and war. Therefore, peacemaking has turned into one of the governments’ objectives. Peace has been affected by various factors in all over history. Media and communication technologies are two of the factors...

International Conference on Islamic Awakening

Recent developments in the middle-east have been differently explained by different figures and dignitaries from different countries of the world. Calling these developments as "Islamic awakening", "Human awakening", "Arab Spring" and "Purple Revolution" indicates there are different theories in this regard definitely leading to different measures in the political arena. Among supreme leader's ...

Public Diplomacy Between Theory and Practice

This paper reflects on trends in public diplomacy and on some of Spain’s public diplomacy challenges. The author is a member of the Working Group ‘Una Diplomacia Pública para España’. The paper is the text of a presentation delivered at the first Madrid Conference on Public Diplomacy, which was held on 10 October 2006 at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Diplomatic School. Organised by t...