Strategic components of sustainable development with the approach of national power in Iran

Abstract

Objective: This research aims to extract the strategic components of sustainable development with the approach of national power.Methodology: The research strategy is mixed exploratory. In the qualitative part, the strategic components of sustainable development were determined by studying thirteen high-level system documents with the theme analysis method. In the quantitative part, with structural-interpretive modeling and targeted sampling of experts, classification and identification of relationships between strategic components of sustainable development were done.Findings: The components were identified in such a way that diplomacy, knowledge-based defense, economic development, and natural resources and environment were placed at level one. In the second level, the component of knowledge-based development was placed, and in the third level, the two components of administrative governance and national culture of development were determined.Originality: Soft power components include the culture of national development, administrative governance and knowledge-based development, the basis for actualizing and exploiting the hard power components of economic development, knowledge-based defense, and resources and environment.

Keywords

• sustainable development
• national power
• hard power
• soft power