Sajjad Atazade

A Re-reading of the Idea of the End of Pan-Arabism

The contemporary Middle East cannot be explained through twentieth-century identity concepts. Transnational projects that once claimed to define the Arab world have now given way to the strict logic of the nation-state and security competition. In this context the idea formulated by Fawaz Ajami former dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a figure close to American neoconservatives in his late 1980s article in Foreign Affairs titled The End of Pan-Arabism is now not merely a historical interpretation but an analytical framework for understanding the current regional situation—a situation in which Arab identity no longer has the capacity to organize regional politics having been replaced by a scattered network of security-oriented states.
یکشنبه ۲۷ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۵

From Critical Engagement to the Geopoliticization of Containment: The Evolution of Relations Between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the European

Relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Europe have evolved over the past three decades from a model based on critical engagement toward a form of geopoliticized containment policy.
یکشنبه ۲۳ فروردین ۱۴۰۵

Chinese International Relations Theories in the Framework of “Global International Relations”: From Critique of Western-centrism to Rethinking World O

Since its inception the discipline of International Relations (IR) has been marked by a fundamental tension: on the one hand the claim to explain “global politics” through universally valid theories on the other a deep reliance on Western—particularly European and American—historical experiences epistemological assumptions and normative priorities. Amitav Acharya former president of the International Studies Association (ISA) places this tension at the center of theoretical debate through his concept of Global IR.
یکشنبه ۲۶ بهمن ۱۴۰۴

Foreign Policy of Donald Trump: Power-centric Nationalism in the Era of Declining Liberal Order

The rise of Donald Trump in U.S. foreign policy cannot be reduced simply to a miscalculation by partisan elites or the temporary dissatisfaction of the middle class. Trump’s foreign policy reflects an accumulated crisis of U.S. hegemony and a deep gap between America’s material capabilities and its extensive commitments in the international order. From this perspective Trump’s foreign policy is not a “deviation from the norm” but an alternative formulation of American power under conditions of relative decline.
دوشنبه ۲۷ بهمن ۱۴۰۴