The department’s core responsibilities include:

• Selecting and translating key works in the field of International Relations into Persian, with a focus both on works that are of interest to the general public as well as classic texts that are the mainstay of international relations courses around the world. examples:
  Samuel P. Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations and the New World Order translated by: Mohammad Ali Hamid-Rafeei
  Allen Cassels: Ideology and International Relations in the Modern World
  translated by: Mahmoud Abdullahzadeh
  
  
• Editing and publishing the first ever Persian-language academic journal (Eghtesade Siassi) – politicaleconomy@gosympatico.ca - dedicated to the emerging field of International Political Economy with the aim of introducing and establishing the field amongst Iranian IR scholars (first issue to be published fall/winter 2002).

• Editing and publishing a quarterly Persian-language academic journal focused on the multidisciplinary aspects of civilizational dialogue Pol-e Firuzeh (Turquoise Bridge)
  pol-e-firuzeh@iranculturestudies.com
  
  
• Acting as consultants on related projects for the Cultural Research Bureau.
  
  
• Initiating projects, such as that of compiling an annotated bibliography of IR-related books written and published in Iran.
  
  
• Organizing national seminars.
  Examples: Tolerance (December 2001)