through termination of cold war and in the way of attempts of u.s.a for continuingcooperation with newly established powerful counties in order to obtain modernglobal discipline the relationships between u.s.a and india was increased andreached to its climax during presidency of george bush. nevertheless, this growthof bilateral relationship was very reduced by selecting obama as president of u...

There is a long liberal political tradition of marshalling arguments aimed at convincing Christians that distinctively Christian reasons for issuing coercive laws are not sufficient to justify those laws. In the first part of this paper I argue that the two most popular of these arguments, attributable to Locke, will not reliably convince committed biblical Christians, nor, probably, should the...

The present study aimed to answer the question that Qajar government as a political system was an authoritarian government? This study deals with the outcomes of Qajar Authoritarianism and the impact of effective historical-geographical conditions of Iran on emergence or continuance of Authoritarianism. Authoritarianism in this study is not a one-dimensional structure and it is composed of some...

Article history: Received 7 August 2014 Received in revised form 20 June 2015 Accepted 29 June 2015 Available online 9 July 2015 This study investigates whether a firm with strong corporate governance (CG) requires political connections (PCs), that is, we examine whether CG and PC substitute for or complement each other. Using 71,069 individual bank loan contracts from Taiwan, we examine how lo...

current study basically aims at exploring the motives behind watching persian satellite channels among female audience in city of qaemshahr. participants are 263 female audiences from qaemshahr which were selected based on purposive sampling. the research method employed here is survey, and a researcher-developed questionnaire was used to collect data, one-sample t-test, anova, and friedman tes...

increase of influence and dominance over independent republics of central assia and caucasus in order to utilize the natural overflowing sources of this region is in immense strategy of america in future. therefore, by expanding nato into this region america is trying to decrease the influence of russia in these republics and in the meantime fulfilling the above purpose and also to prevent the ...

futuwwha was one the influential factors in the moral, political and social life of iranian and islamic civilization and culture.the examination of the origins and roots of this important phenomenon helps us to know it better.there have been doubtlessly several factors,such as certain teachings of islam and some of the historical, social and moral circumstances, in its development,but consideri...