نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
In recent decades, geopolitical and ideological developments in West Asia have paved the ground for the emergence of transnational resistance networks that have formed against foreign domination and the inefficiency of dependent governments. The Islamic Revolution of Iran, as a discursive and civilizational phenomenon, has played a pivotal role in the formation and guidance of these resistance currents. This revolution, through discourse, values, and spiritual legitimacy, has created a cooperative and supra-state network of regional resistance forces and provided common identity-based and cultural grounds among groups such as Ḥizb Allāh of Lebanon, Anṣār Allāh of Yemen, and other resistance actors, leading to strategic synergy and narrative coherence among them. The present research, by raising the question, "How has the soft power of the Islamic Revolution of Iran influenced the supra-state synergy and convergence of resistance forces in West Asia?", utilizes the method of discourse analysis and a comparative approach. In the theoretical dimension, the research, by synthesizing three conceptual frameworks—Soft Power (Nye), Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough and van Dijk), and Narrative Theory in foreign policy (Krebs and Freedman)—presents a combined model through which the process of the expansion of the Islamic Revolution's discourse among supra-state resistance forces can be analyzed. In this framework, "Soft Power" refers to the ability
of persuasion and the discursive attraction of the Islamic Revolution; "Discourse Analysis" deals with understanding the mechanisms of semantic reproduction of the concepts of resistance and fighting Arrogance (Istikbār); and "Narrative Theory" addresses the examination of story coherence, myth-making, and the creation of legitimizing narratives among resistance forces. The main hypothesis of the research is that wherever identity-based, value-based, and narrative overlap existed between the Islamic Revolution and resistance forces, the possibility for the formation of supra-state convergence and the increase of the coordination capacity of the resistance front was provided. The importance of this study lies in the fact that, unlike previous research that mostly addressed the separate analysis of the soft power capacities of the Islamic Revolution or resistance groups, this inquiry, with a comparative and network-based view, scrutinizes the transnational model of synergy among resistance actors in relation to the discourse of the Islamic Revolution. The results indicate that Ḥizb Allāh of Lebanon, in all institutional, discursive, ritual, and media dimensions, has turned into a structural and internalized model of the Islamic Revolution's discourse and has achieved a type of supra-state institution-building and resistance state-building. In contrast, Anṣār Allāh of Yemen, although possessing greater independence at the structural level, has meaningful overlap with the discourse of the Islamic Revolution in discursive, slogan-based, and symbolic layers and is moving in the path of institutionalizing this semantic bond. In both cases, narratives such as oppression, fighting Arrogance (Istikbār), martyrdom-seeking, and the unity of the Islamic Ummah have been reproduced in the form of rituals, media, education, and patterns of public mobilization. The key achievement of the research is that the narrative, identity-based, and value-based overlap between the Islamic Republic of Iran and resistance forces has played a fundamental role in the formation of "Supra-State Synergy"; in such a way that the Islamic Republic has become not just a domestic government, but a transnational discursive reference at the regional level. These achievements are observable not only at the level of politics but also in the spheres of security, culture, education, media, and institution-building.
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