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

The purpose of this research is to extract the strategic components of sustainable development with the approach of national power.

The research strategy is mixed exploratory. In the qualitative part, the strategic components of sustainable development were determined by studying thirteen high-level documents of the system 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 was done.

The components were identified in such a way that the components of 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.

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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.