Mehdi Zibaei; Reza Simbar; Ahmed Jansiz
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Following the Arab Uprisings, the concept of the Middle East order refers to the post-uprising system. Meanwhile, there are various sub-national and super-national factors are involved and each of which must be individually analyzed. The physical presence and regional policies of the international ...
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Following the Arab Uprisings, the concept of the Middle East order refers to the post-uprising system. Meanwhile, there are various sub-national and super-national factors are involved and each of which must be individually analyzed. The physical presence and regional policies of the international great powers such as the US, Russia and the EU significantly affect the new system. These actors prevent any indigenous regional system from taking shape. Despite the plural aspects of the Middle East system within the mentioned era, the present research only aims to explain the impact of the behavior of the US, Russia and the EU towards the Arab Uprisings and its aftermath on the regional order. So, the hypothesis is that changing in the post-Arab uprisings era is affected by diverse factors (state-society complex, Ideological conflicts, regional rivalries and implication of international setting) and in this context the key powers are effective parts in this premise. Thus, this essay tries to bring the political behaviors of United States, Russia, and the European Union towards Arab uprisings and its implications under scrutiny through the international layer of the Historical Sociology of International Relations (HSIR) as the current article theoretical framework.
Mehdi Zibaei; Reza Simbar; Ahmed Jansiz
Abstract
The main body of academic literature on Historical Sociology of International Relations (HSIR) is divided into two parts. The first part is produced by the scholars who are trying to enrich this theory as an eclectic approach. The second part relies on the researchers who are seeking to provide a meaningful ...
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The main body of academic literature on Historical Sociology of International Relations (HSIR) is divided into two parts. The first part is produced by the scholars who are trying to enrich this theory as an eclectic approach. The second part relies on the researchers who are seeking to provide a meaningful interpretation of political incidents by connecting the interior and exterior levels of analysis and making the role of international setting inflated. The international system as a phenomenon that stems from the social relations, in this context, is affected by the striking variables that are based on both internal and international milieus. This research paper intends to go beyond the mainstream approach in IR which relies on level of analyses such as power, security, economics, identity, and so forth by drafting an especial theoretical approach in order to explain the international system in the HSIR context. The authors, furthermore, believe that the international system is a social phenomenon that includes a wide variety of relations from the sub-national level to the international tendencies.
