Mohammad Javad Zarif Released a New Book

Mohammad Javad Zarif, a professor at Tehran University and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, wrote: “In fulfillment of a promise I made two years ago to explain my views on the post-polar world, the book ‘The World Ahead’ has been released in cooperation with several thinkers.”

According to this report, Mohammad Javad Zarif, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, wrote on his Instagram page:

Hello friends,

Yesterday, the Ettela’at Institute published the book “The World Ahead.” This book, in fulfillment of a promise I made on this page two years ago, was compiled with the cooperation of a group of friends. Now, nearly thirty-five years after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the end of the bipolar system, the international community and thinkers are still striving to find and agree upon the current system of international relations. Have new poles emerged or are they emerging in the world? If so, will the emerging world be unipolar, bipolar, multipolar, or a combination of these?

What is the prospect of moving beyond the transitional period and reaching a new international (global) system in the coming years or decades? And should we fundamentally expect the formation of some kind of polarity in the world, or has the era of polar loyalty ended, and the world is now experiencing a new post-polar system, and we should not expect a new polar system? These are the questions that we have endeavored to answer in this collection, utilizing the views of professors and international relations thinkers of the country with different theoretical and political perspectives:

Chapter One: Polarization and Transition in International Politics: Theoretical Foundations (Dr. Homeira Moshirzadeh)
Chapter Two: World Order: What and How (Dr. Seyed Jalal Dehghani Firoozabadi)
Chapter Three: Iran and the Transition of the International System: Continuation of Agency amidst Collapse and Over-Expansion (Dr. Arash Raeisinejad)
Chapter Four: Transition from a Unipolar World; A Survey of Proponents and Opponents’ Views (Dr. Ruholamin Saeedi)
Chapter Five: The Emergence of a Dual-Multipolar World System; Roots and Consequences (Dr. Diako Hosseini)
Chapter Six: The Multipolar World: Reality and Narrative (Dr. Seyed Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour)
Chapter Seven: The Post-Polar World Order (Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif and Dr. Sasan Karimi)
Concluding Remarks: Ensuring National Security in the Post-Polar World (Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Dr. Mohammad Fazeli, and Dr. Sasan Karimi)