Alireza Mehraby; Soroush Farshchin; Mohammadreza Joufar
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Although in Western studies, the role and concept of the border are becoming an abstract concept, the way of foreign governance still brings potential and actual tensions in many regions of the world in the countries on both sides of the border. This research provides a better picture of the main question ...
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Although in Western studies, the role and concept of the border are becoming an abstract concept, the way of foreign governance still brings potential and actual tensions in many regions of the world in the countries on both sides of the border. This research provides a better picture of the main question of this article which is Iran's geostrategic understanding of Iraq. we do that by examining identity, cultural, religious, economic, etc. components. To answer the question raised in the research, a descriptive-analytical method has been used. In this research, the variables of language and ethnicity, religion, political-economic-military organization, territorial advantage, ethnic symbols, and the reason for existence and territorial cohesion have been analyzed and evaluated. In examining the situation of making political decisions based on Iran's geostrategy towards Iraq, three factors have a neutral or converging situation for Iran, while the situation is divergent in only one component, on the other hand, Iraq is divergent in three and neutral in one component, under these conditions, paying attention to the only divergent factor in two countries, which is language, ethnicity, and religion, should be a serious concern of both countries, a factor that is not so worrying for Iran in a normal situation, but If the independence of these minorities happened in Iraq, it can also limit Iran's national security.
Soroush Farshchin; Morteza Ghourchi
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A critical view of political geography critiques the spatial discourse theories of power for liberation. In the last two centuries, the philosophical view of domination of nature has determined the way of exploiting nature and, consequently, the exploitation of other human beings. By subjugating humans ...
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A critical view of political geography critiques the spatial discourse theories of power for liberation. In the last two centuries, the philosophical view of domination of nature has determined the way of exploiting nature and, consequently, the exploitation of other human beings. By subjugating humans life, the biopolitical discourse of governments can create the conditions for a situation called "Camps" and "Homo-Sacers." Although these two words have not been seen in environmental research in today's world, in Giorgio Agamben's point of view, as long as the living conditions of any society have similarities to his conception of the concept of Homo-Sacer and Camps, these words can be used to describe the region. The main question of this research is whether it is possible to generalize Agamben's theoretical view of the emerging of naked life in today's world, in a specific geographical environment, under the influence of the political-environmental discourses of the government? The research method in this research is descriptive-analytical and this article used and analyzed library information about Agamben's theories and political geographers influenced by him in the fields of "Biopolitics", Camps, "Naked Life" and Homo-Sacer. In the findings of this study, how to reproduce geographical spaces under the influence of spatial discourses of power in the natural environment by defining the terms Environmental Camp and Environmental Homo-Sacer is shown.
