Islamic & non Islamic Countries Cooperation: Perspective on Science Diplomacy Model

The scientific development in today’s globalized environment calls for increasing interaction with scientific and technological centers. Scientific networks and networking with reliance on scientific and academic experts constitute one of the existing strategies to achieve this objective. Through the passage of history, Iran has had economic and cultural exchange with countries located in the Islamic world. Given the globalization of information and communication networks, the idea of enhancing scientific corporation among the said countries can be presented in order to create synergy for generating and developing science and technology. In this paper an attempt has been made to introduce strategic and tools for creating inter-geographical synergy from a theoretical point of view. Science diplomacy has been discussed as a suitable tool for networking among the scientific communities of Iran and Islamic world. This paper also proposes some other strategies to achieve science diplomacy.