علوم و فنون نظامی (Jun 2024)
Iran's geopolitical interests affecting the country's role in power geometry
Abstract
Background & Purpose: The geopolitical interests of J.A. Iran are all geopolitical factors outside the country's political borders that provide national interests. The important point is that geopolitical interests can promote geopolitical prestige in such a way that, while providing national interests outside the borders, it has the least geopolitical conflict with the interests of other political actors. The fact of the matter is that geopolitics has meaning with power and power with political actors; Therefore, if geopolitical interests cause conflicts between the interests of many political actors, not only these geopolitical interests will not increase power, but may also weaken it.In this article, Iran's cross-border interests have been investigated in order to strengthen its geopolitical status in order to help identify and explain the actual and potential capacities outside the country that can objectively and subjectively affect Iran's acting power. . The main goal of this research is to determine the country's geopolitical interest indicators in three natural, economic and political components;Methodology: This research is applied-developmental with a descriptive-analytical research method. The statistical population of this research is 56 people according to the characteristics of the research. The data analysis method is based on structural equations.Findings and Conclusion: The findings and results of the research indicate that the country's geopolitical interests in the natural component with 3 indicators, the economic component with 7 indicators and the political component with 8 indicators are effective in improving the geopolitical position of the country.
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