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Explanation of the geopolitical factors affecting the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the African continent Case Study: Ethiopia
Rouhollah Baseri, Jalal ِdorakhshah,
Volume 1, Issue 2 (1-2025)
Abstract
Geopolitics is considered a tool for advancing foreign policy goals. Geopolitics is an effort to push the world towards a situation where political affairs and its perspectives are considered integrated and uniform. Therefore, foreign policy objectives should be evaluated in line with its geopolitical perspective, which will include material resources to ideological and semantic resources. In the meantime, Iran's interaction with the African continent and Ethiopia increased significantly in the 1960s-1970s, which was influenced by economic, political and strategic factors. This research was written with the aim of explaining and investigating the geopolitical factors influencing the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Ethiopia using descriptive-analytical method. The findings of the research showed that geographical, economic, cultural, political, security factors, the presence of regional and extra-regional powers are among the important factors that have pushed the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards Ethiopia. Because Ethiopia has long-standing historical and cultural ties with Iran, and from the economic point of view, due to its proximity to West Asia, it can be considered as Iran's gateway to Africa and to some extent free Iran from international isolation that it has not been able to so far. is to take advantage of this unique situation properly. As a result, it can be said that the Islamic Republic of Iran will be able to increase its influence in this country through the formulation of policies in the economic, cultural and political dimension
 
An Analysis of the Factors Affecting Organizers' Perception of Cultural Tourism Events Case study: Ferdowsi Commemoration Event

Volume 25, Issue 1 (3-2021)
Abstract
Introduction
Event tourism as one of the types of tourism that according to Getz, has been proposed in the tourism industry and research community for several decades, is one of the important motivating factors in tourism and in programs. The development and marketing of most areas is an important factor. With this description, in recent decades, the event management sector is evolving and becoming a strong industry that has been considered through the development of communities. In this regard, in order to achieve success, it is necessary to pay attention not only to the shareholders, but also to all groups and individuals who influence or are affected by the development of the event in any way.
The present study was organized in line with regional development by event management which has identified, prioritized and analyzed different dimensions of the success that affects the perception of organizers.
 
Methodology
In this study with combined methodology and descriptive-analytical survey method, different dimensions of the components that affect the perception of organizers are identified, prioritized and analyzed.
For this purpose, the various dimensions categorized by the panel of experts, and all the effective components on the perception of the organizers were presented. Afterwards, by a questionnaire among 50 organizers of the Ferdowsi commemoration in Toos area of Mashhad city, which were selected by Delphi counting technique, their perception of event was measured and then analyzed by fuzzy TOPSIS method.
 Results and discussion
In this research, in a step beyond the previous researches, the dimensions affecting the event have been prioritized, and provide a more detailed roadmap for the organizers on how to pay attention to the dimensions affecting the success of an event.
The results show that physical perception with the first rank has the greatest impact on the process of understanding the event for the organizers. In other words, physical space, accessibility, infrastructure development, diverse and aesthetic content qualities, and imagery can create a better and more effective understanding in management of events.s.

 

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