Middle East is one of the most important geopolitical areas of the world and therefore it has been always a field on which all the players have been competing to make it as their territory. While in the past it was the states that tried to territoriality, nowadays there are some non-governmental players as Muslim Brotherhood movements that try to play the game of territory making so that non-go...

Any crisis in the Middle East both affects the countries of the region and forces the international system to react. In recent years, ISIS Islamic fundamentalism and their actions have affected the Middle East and the entire international system. Particularly, the Islamic Republic of Iran, due to its Shiite and non-Arab identity, is directly exposed to ISIS threats. The purpose of this study is...

In recent years the term "Shiite Crescent" was first applied by king Abdullah II king of Jordan through which he put forth the threat of Shiites' empowerment. In their opinion, Islamic Republic of Iran is capable of controlling geopolitical developments in the middle-east via its influence on Iraqi Shiites and change the power balance to Shiites' interests and against American and Israeli inter...

The uprising and developments in the Arab world that the Tunisian protests began, a wave of requests and political, economic and social demands to other classes of  people and then to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa region ,including Egypt. The developments in some of the changing political systems in the region, regional order and also affect the interests and approach powe...

Developments after September of 2011 confirm the pessimistic view towards the Middle East because opposed to the expectations of the optimists, ending the Cold War and the collapse of bipolar system did not mean regional peace. One of the reasons for this instability and regional conflict is direct and indirect intervention of the United States and its presence in theregion. One of the areas th...