%0 Journal Article %T A STUDY OF THE ROLE OF POLITICAL AND SECURITY FACTORS IN THE POLICYMAKING OF IRANIAN NGOS %J POLITICAL QUARTERLY %I %Z 1735-9678 %A MAJIDI, Mohammad Reza %A HAMISSI, MORTEZA %D 2013 %\ 10/23/2013 %V 43 %N 3 %P 45-60 %! A STUDY OF THE ROLE OF POLITICAL AND SECURITY FACTORS IN THE POLICYMAKING OF IRANIAN NGOS %K non-governmental organization %K National Interests %K National security %K national security interests %K Policy making %K political and security factors %R 10.22059/jpq.2013.36736 %X The establishment and development of non-governmental organizations, which areconsidered among the mechanisms for the people’s participation at the local,national and international levels, has and continues to impact the different areas ofthe life of human societies. One of these impacted fields is the national securityinterests of the countries. For policy making in the field of these organizations it isnecessary to understand different elements, especially political and security factors.This research will recognize those elements and the way in which they impact thedifferent dimensions and levels of the national security interests of the country. Theresults taken from this research, which has been conducted through survey methodsand on the basis of scientific documents and instruments as well as in-depthinterviews, indicates that the said factors directly impacted three dimensions, namely“the idea of the state”, “the institutional expression of the state” and “the physicalbase of the state” of the Iranian national security interests. In this regard the highestimpact of those factors can be traced to the idea of the state of national securityinterests. %U https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_36736_8ae787852c9de80a158934de305d58e4.pdf