Positivism as a Dominant Method in The Iranian Researches on Foreign Policy of Iran

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After revolution, Iranian researcher and scholars had many works for scientific explanation of foreign policy of Iran and they have tried to use of new various trends and approaches in methological area in social sciences. In this article after surveying of this literature, it will be manifested that positivism is the dominant approach in Iranian studies on foreign policy. For this purpose first the principles of positivism will be passed away and then by analyzing of Iranians studies it will be showed that despite of different views, most of Iranian researches had been based upon positivism.

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