one of the most important instruments of iranian foreign policy is an active and proactive cultural diplomacy. the exercise of such a diplomacy is more essential in neighboring strategic region of persian gulf. hence, this article strives to explore and explaine different aspects of iran’s cultural diplomacy and various determining variables that necessitate its exercise in that region. the mai...

muslim students were one of the active subjects during the movement of imam khomeini and advance its goals. positions and hence the course of political and intellectual developments in the islamic institutions as the main artery of the student movement in those years, can be enlightening part of the islamic revolution is on. due to the ability of laclau and muffe discourse in explaining social ...

BACKGROUND In much of the world, President George W. Bush was not admired for his foreign policy and diplomacy. It is therefore ironic that Bush's single most uncontested foreign policy triumph was an instance of what has now become known as "health diplomacy". In 2003 Bush launched the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year $15 billion initiative to fight HIV/AIDS, mostly in A...

The term discourse theory encompasses a diverse set of insights, assumptions, and concepts that have emerged across a range of disciplines in recent decades. Discourse theory generally derives from the “ linguistic turn ” in the humanities and social sciences that traces back to the work of infl uential fi gures such as Ferdinand de Saussure, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Michel Foucault (Rorty, 199...

This article assesses US-China relations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to pandemic, trade war created an atmosphere of bitterness and mistrust in bilateral also prompted Chinese leadership seek enhance its "discourse power" through "wolf warrior" diplomacy. hampered communication cooperation initial phase The unleashing diplomacy as pandemic spread round world, especially United States, h...

khwaja nasīr al-dīn tūsī is accused, by many, of collaborating with the mongol invaders and legitimizing their domination (power). using the identity theory of manuel castells and discourse theory, the present essay hypothesizes that khwaja nasīr has tried to create iranian identity utilizing the archetypes of iranshahr and has founded a programmed identity that was later followed by other bure...

Building on a view of both narration and argumentation as dynamic concepts, this paper considers ways assessing the credibility narrative arguments constructed in empirical examples conversational discourse. I argue that key any such exercise is to pay close attention structural pragmatic details, particularly how storytelling gets embedded surrounding discourse way discursively accomplished vi...