خلاصة:
In the field of security studies، whether comprehensive studies including political changes and academic endeavor، or classic methods laying emphasis on military issues، or modern theoretical studies، any geopolitical hypothesis to study the international security issues requires a scholarly revision due to the international developments. The present study is an attempt to describe the international security perspective and the variables of the current era through a new and realistic approach based on the nature of security developments in the world and also by relying on the modern geopolitical ideas which play a very important role in the strategic planning and foreign policy of the independent political unites. The main questions of the present paper are: 1- Why the security of the world today and consequently the security of the regions is a function of geopolitical variables? 2- How far the changes in the geopolitical models influence security? 3- Do the geopolitical similarities change permanently?
ملخص الجهاز:
98-115 Changes in Geopolitical Models of Security in the Present Era Dr. Kiumars Yazdanpanah{o*o}-Lecturer of Political Geography, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar Branch Date Received: 2009/5/16 Date Accepted: 2009/10/2 Abstract {IBIn the study of security issues, whether using extensive research methods including political changes and academic endeavors, or limited and old classic methods that emphasize military issues more, or modern theoretical methods, it is clear that geopolitical hypotheses with each of these methods for initiating global security studies, given the trend of global developments, require revision and scholarly and collective deep thinking.
This research, while explaining the security perspectives of the world and its variables in the present era, is presented with a new and realistic approach based on the type and nature of security developments in the world and by utilizing modern geopolitical thoughts that play an essential role in today's world in designing strategic programs and foreign policy of every independent and recognized political unit.
The bitter memories of World War I and II and the incidents of the Cold War have not yet been forgotten, where environmental hazards, the bitter and uncertain future of the earth, natural and energy resources, population, food, the uncontrolled expansion of cities, and the emergence of multiple security gaps (some of which have become uncontrollable and unbearable), alongside dangerous human behaviors in changing combat procedures and wars from their classical principles in the past to unpredictable, uncontrolled principles without reliance on any human values, have significantly increased the security concerns of mankind in the 21st century.