Analysis of the Development of Urban Diplomacy with Regard to the Potential of Globalization in Tehran

Introduction:

 in today's evolving world due to powerful phenomena such as globalization and the development of information-communication (virtual-real), given the value and importance of cities in the local and global economy, considering the development of capacities of urban political interactions with value. In fact, cities, like local territories, can overcome their problems and provide the ground for their social, economic and environmental development through the capacities that they acquire through communication and political interactions in the international arena. Thus, it can be argued that urban diplomacy is a new form of diplomacy in which the world's cities participate, using the potential of the world's metropolises to develop international intercity policies rather than intergovernmental policies. The framework of urban policy is based on the potential of citizenship.

Methodology:

this research was applied-developmental in terms of purpose and descriptiveanalytical in terms of method. In order to collect the information and data required for the research, it has been used as a documentary-library with filing and survey-field tools with interviews and questionnaires. The statistical population of the study included officials in the field of urban management of Tehran metropolitan municipality and the university community and urban elites whose sample size was 100 people (minimum descriptive analysis quorum) and were randomly selected. In order to analyze the data, exploratory factor analysis and multivariate regression test in SPSS software environment were used to model the structural equations of the data in Amos software environment.

Results and discussion:

 the results indicated that the development of urban diplomacy with regard to cultural and popular capacities in the globalization of Tehran with a variance of 18.73% has the highest percentage of the variance of the development of urban diplomacy with regard to globalization capacities. Also, according to the six factors extracted, the development of urban diplomacy has 0.834% of the variance of the globalization of Tehran in the context of national and international cooperation, networking, cultural and economic, and the study of urban diplomacy development according to globalization capacities. It also showed that urban diplomacy has a 53.7% effect on cooperation and networking of Tehran's globalization, 53.7% on the cultural context of Tehran's globalization and 45.6% on the national economic and international dimension of Tehran's globalization. Globalization will create the connection and solidarity of countries, societies and citizens from all over the world. Also, in the era of globalization, political interactions are one of the most important tools for promoting national power. In this regard, political interactions and globalization have effects and approaches. Positive and negative are based on various dimensions that can be studied in the context of global cities. In other words, the cities that have benefited the most from the flow of goods, capital, services, and immigrants, called global cities, have brought the highest levels of economic, social, and infrastructural benefits to their citizens. On the other hand, the way to enter the world cities was competitive, it was possible and cities by considering the principles of development in the fields of economy, research and development, cultural interaction, livability, environment and accessibility (the ability of the city to compete in these areas with other cities Global) will be able to become an influential global city.

Conclusion:

all in all, founding of Southwest Asia Cities Network by Tehran Metropolis, creating a union and network of cities inside Iran to exchange knowledge, facilities and trade of domestic municipalities with each other as a basis for preparing domestic municipalities with their foreign counterparts, creating a memorandum of understanding for student exchange and scientific cooperation and international conferences focusing on the cities of neighboring countries, strengthening humanitarian institutions centered on the cities of neighboring countries, Attracting foreign investors from cities in neighboring countries, creating and expanding information communication infrastructure to introduce natural-historical attractions, services to the international audience to become the city of Tehran as a brand and destination for tourism and investment, launching multilingual websites and social networks with the focus on introducing the attractions, potentials and capacities of Tehran city development as well as investment opportunities in this city as one of the main advertising and marketing tools in the era of globalization and so on could be raised In order to develop the political interactions of Tehran, considering the capacities of globalization in the context of cooperation and networking, national and international cultural and economic issues.