Taking possession of space as a strategic asset is the priority of the geographic policy of the countries. The fragmented Middle East spaces that have been formed following the lack of power of  fragile states, such as Iraq and Syria in the Middle East, have created a conflict of interest between the new subjects and the dominant geopolitical structures in the Middle East. These spaces have bee...

امنیت ملی یکی از مهمترین دلمشغولی های کشورها در سیستم منطقه ای و جهانی است. این موضوع با شکل-گیری سیستم بین الملل به مفهوم وستفالیایی آن از برجستگی و اهمیت زیادی در روابط بین الملل برخوردار گردیده است و یکی از دغدغه های اصلی آن چگونگی مواجه شدن با چنین معضلی است. اما امنیت تحت تأثیر عوامل متعددی قرار داردکه در این میان یکی از مهمترین متغیرهای تأثیرگذار بر امنیت ملی کشورها حوزه های منطقه ای و وی...

Tools and methods that powerful actors employ in the world’s political theater scene are diverse and various. Geopolitical monitoring is as a method for recognition and implementation of influence and gaining hegemony around the world through the geopolitical indices, factors and capabilities.With the transformations emerged in the Middle East and changes in the behavioral approaches of its pow...

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...

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...

Arabic Spring and its consequences, particularly in Syria and later its civil war, has led to fundamental changes in political layouts and alignments in the region and beyond it. One of the main effects of these developments is the deepening of the ethnic and religious divisions in the Middle East and consequently new alignments of national and subnational actors. Subnational ethnic-religious g...

 With the onset of the political crisis in Syria, regional and transnational actors, based on their own interests, have adopted different orientations in relation to this country, which has a special geopolitical and geostrategic importance in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the role of actors such as Russia and the Islamic Republic of Iran is of great importance. The purpose of the present article...

The Qajar government in Iran was based on the geopolitical conditions of the expansionism of the European states, including Russia, Britain and France in the Middle East. On the other hand, the geopolitical position of Iran in the issues and interests of the regional powers of the great powers, brought about the importance and attention to the court of Iran, and this geopolitical attention and ...