Abstract

The Discourse Theory introduced by Ernst Laclau and Shintal Mouffe , provides the researchers with an effective tool for analysis of the interactions between actors in the field of politics. From the perspective of these researchers, discourses are the lonely way the human could use for recognition of the world. Following the seeking to answer the main question of "The main military-security approaches in the Islamic world could be explained or recognized better by which theory?", this study suggests the hypothesis that "by using Laclau and Mouffe's Discourse Analysis Theory, it is possible to understand the either main military-security approaches in the Islamic world or the evolution of these approaches". To do this, in addition to studying the theoretical foundations of the formation of Laclau and Mouffe discourse analysis theory, the security-military discourse of the Islamic Republic in the Islamic world in the early 1990 is explained, by focusing on the “Otherness-maker’ relationship of such discourse with the hegemons military-security discourse in the Islamic world, that is the military-security discourse established by the United States. Then, the "evaluation" of the military-security discourses of the Islamic Republic and the United States after formation (or more precisely, strengthening) of the "Salafi-Takfiri" security-military discourse in 2001 in the Islamic world has been discussed.