The Scientific causes of ISIS Threats in the Islamic World; by Criticizing Western security studies and Applying the System of Dominance Theory

Document Type : Research Paper

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Assistant Professor, International Relations, Faculty of Humanities, University of Tarbiat Modares, Iran

Abstract

Abstract
Purpose:Studies show that the narratives of non-indigenous security schools about the origins of ISIL's threats in the Islamic world are ineffective. So, it is necessary to know the exact pattern of ISIL's behavior in the Islamic world based on a local theory.
Methodology: The main method of the present study; Deductive and its approach is critical and analytical. The method of data analysis is also qualitative.
Findings: Now the question is, why can't non-indigenous security schools recognize the origins of ISIS threats in the Islamic world? And how does the system of dominance Theory (presented by Ayatollah Khamenei) identify these threats? The author argues that Western security schools are incapable of this because of their connection to humanism, power, and the specific geopolitics of their thinking.
Rsult: In contrast, the System of dominance theory with a monotheistic worldview, in spite of any particular consideration of power and with an indigenous approach, regulates the causes, methods and goals of ISIL in the Islamic world. In this regard, the causes of ISIL's threats are in sharing ISIL's interests with the leaders of the system of dominance. (Marginalizing the pattern of resistance).
Keywords
ISIS, Threat, Neorealism, Copenhagen School, Paris School, System of Dominance Theory.

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