this essay aims to put forward a new explanation of “sârt” problem from an iranian viewpoint. its main focus is to represent those signs which could be helpful to introduce sârt people as inheritors of old iranian culture of central asia. to attain this purpose it has been organized in four parts; the first part discussed with the history of russia’s rule over the region and its dealing with in...

this research seeks to study the impact of pan-turkist ideology on central asia. the collapse of the soviet :union: and independence of the central asian and caucasian states once again revitalized hopes among the pan-turkist theoreticians and strategists who were hopeless about the implementation of their project of establishing a turkic empire in the southern parts of the soviet :union:. cons...

the collapse of the soviet :union: had unpredicted effects on its neighboring regions such as central asia. these conditions provided a situation for the powers such as united states and russia to have a greater influence on central asia, and also to fill the absence of the power found by the collapse of soviet :union:. after september 11, 2001, united states of america, following the strategy ...

preventive diplomacy, a concept promoted more than fifty years ago by dag hammarskjöld, former un secretary general, is now being institutionalized through united nations regional center for preventive diplomacy for central asia (unrcca), which is established for the purpose of peaceful settlements of disputes, and prevention of conflicts by using preventive and early warning mechanisms. the ce...

khomein city is located between the iranian central plateau and central zagros. the relative importance of khomein in sassanian period is evidenced by presence of distinctive monuments such as fire temple of atashkooh and mile malyon in eastern part of mahallat and inscriptions of gharghab valley and also passing of a branch of silk road through it. nevertheless there is not so much information...