Software-based Prescriptions of a Novel Global Order for the Foreign Policy of the I.R.I in the Cultural Iran Region

Document Type : Science - Research

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Associate Professor Islamic knowledge and Thought Faculty University of Tehran, Tehran, IRAN.

Abstract

Changes in the structure of the global single-polar system and the transition towards a 
multi-polar order highlight the new norms of the global order. It is clear that the 
dominance of the new normative order and the elements of the new structural meaning 
are primarily considering the decline of US hegemony and its redistribution among new 
poles. These conditions create more space for the expression of competing cultural 
ideologies. In such a space, there are ample opportunities for culturally and civilizational 
rich actors like Iran to emerge. The importance of this issue becomes more apparent 
when we realize that key players in the new structure, such as China, lack the high 
capacity to confront Western cultural-hegemonic dominance regarding the absence of 
modern software. In an era where the main characteristic is "Power Dispersion," some 
of the material shortcomings of the Islamic Republic of Iran can be remedied to play an 
effective role in the new era of cultural power vacuum, if attention is paid to its software 
capacities. Therefore, the main question of this research is formed by examining what 
software-based priorities for the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards 
the cultural Iran region suggest. In response to this question, with a descriptive-analytical 
approach by gathering a library of data, highlighting the coordinates of the new global 
order, and examining the coordinates of the cultural Iran region. The main 
recommendations of this new situation for the foreign policy of I.R.I in the cultural Iran 
region are explored. The results indicated that the framework of this software capacity 
can be explained in three dimensions: culture, values, and foreign policy. This capacity 
has gained a particular significance in connection with the concept of the Islamic 
Revolution and the opportunities it has created.

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Contemporary Researches on Islamic Revolution
Volume 5, Issue 18
December 2023
Pages 59-75

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