Mutual Empowerment of the Oppressed: A Promising Future for International Relations

Document Type : Original Article

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President of Higher Education Complex for Language, Literature and Culture Studies

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International relations have consistently represented both a stage of challenges, conflicts, and power struggles among the powerful and the less capable or similarly powerful parties, as well as a platform for cooperation and solidarity between certain states or nations. At times, both parties in a conflict have been unjust, while at other times, one has been just and the other unjust, and occasionally, each has been just in some respects and unjust in others. Scholars have recognized that the primary concern of Islam and its leaders is the happiness, welfare, comfort, peace, and both spiritual and material advancement of their followers, regardless of their own gains. While it is clear that ultimately justice prevails and injustice is subdued, the question remains whether we will continue to witness the dominance of a few Western powers over the entire world in the near future, or whether we will see the decline of these powers and the rise of oppressed nations. This article hypothesizes the latter scenario and employs a descriptive-analytical research methodology.

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