Smart Diplomacy and Regional Convergence: The Muslim World

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1 Associate Professor of International Relations, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran.

2 Ph.D. student of International Relations, University of Tehran

Abstract

Regional disciplines are considered as one of the most important fields of international relations studies, which are heavily influenced by the structures and dynamics of the international system. The transformation of the international system into a complex-turbulent system, has faced regional convergence and its analytical apparatus with new realities that the classical literature of international relations has not paid much attention to; the change in the structure of the international system into its network structure and the dynamism of its power to intelligent power are among such realities;  smart diplomacy based on the logic of intelligent power and its function in the management of order and regional convergence, are also of such facts that are not given due attention in the existing literature ; in this regard, convergence in the Islamic world as a regional network lacks such an analytical apparatus. Hence, the axiomatic question of the present study focuses on such realities. The research hypothesis suggests that smart diplomacy, due to the rules of complexity and chaos, including network structure, as well as the management of dynamics, leads to the convergence and evolution of regional networks. In the Islamic world, faced with structural and dynamic divisions, intelligent network diplomacy is a way to achieve convergence. The ultimate goal of the paper is to provide a new analytical model that conceptualizes smart network diplomacy for convergence and integration into regional disciplines, including the Islamic world

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  • Receive Date: 12 November 2017
  • Revise Date: 07 October 2017
  • Accept Date: 15 January 2018

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