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Abstract

The regional studies is one of the most important issue areas in international relations that developed in respond to problems and realities of international system. But in regional studies exist some theoretical difficulties and disfunctions.
This article in respond to that disfunctions and by use of international relations theoretical approaches and simulations of theories that provide in other areas, especially engineering, designs a conceptual and theoretical framework for regional studies. For this purpose, first different approaches including
traditional and modern power-centric approach, neofunctionalism, communication, core-peripheral, cybernetic and identity centeric
approaches will be studied and finally these approaches will be orginized in a new conceptual design.