Abstract:
the study of culture in international relations theories takes a wide range of complex issues, which without enough perception about these issues, certainly our understanding about the role of culture in international relations theories will be incomplete. Because in real world the study of international affairs is best understood as traditional competition between traditional mainstream theories like realism and liberalism, some special concepts like culture has been neglected, but after that when we reach to middle way and sub- theories of international relations we can see that the considering importance of culture has been growing and this concept has now become a permanent feature of these legged theories and discourse international relations arena. This paper tries to introduce culture as an important concept in mainstream, middle way and sub-theories of international relations. After studying about the subject, the authors reached to this conclusion that, despite being ignored in traditional theories, culture has extensive role in all international relations theories and only with considering the political, security and economical issues, we won't be able to understand the realities of political events in field of international relations, So we need other concepts like 'culture' to be able to analyze the political international issues. This paper has been prepared with descriptive- analytical method, and library- documents and World Wide Web have been used.
Machine summary:
"mainstream International theories like: Realism, Liberalism, Neo- liberalism, neo- liberalism are useful tools to understand the concepts like power, security, state and etc, but if we want to study the inter- subjective concepts like 'Culture', lagged theories of international relations like Constructivism, English School, Critical theory, Structuralism, Post- modernism and the other recent theories are more suitable.
It is true that this concept and its role has been neglected in mainstream theories, but with detailed studying in mainstream theories of international relations we can see that only with considering the political, security and economical issues, we can't achieve into depth understanding of international relations, So we need other theories in international theories like middle way theories and sub- theories to understand about the role of culture and its importance in international relations theories.
Reducing the global inequalities, establishing justice in the world, respecting to diversities and differences are from the considering points of critical theorists in international development facilities and at the same time paying attention to cultural positions of people -and to this note that their interests and objectives are defined in a social form- is very important (Linklater 1982: 8).
This group of thinkers seeks the answers of their questions within their culture and cultural issues and decided to pay a special attention to the cultural issues in addition to adoption of major political, security and economic factors, and study this important dimension of social life in international relations."