Analysis of the obstacles and challenges of the formation of the regional organization of the Persian Gulf

پژوهش ‎های جغرافیای سیاسی

Articles in Press, Corrected Proof, Available Online from 17 September 2024

Document Type: مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/pg.2024.88921.1297

Authors

Zahra Nasimi¹; seyyed Hadi Zarghani^{* 2}; omidali kharazmi³; , Hossein Rabiee⁴

¹PhD student of political geography. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Mashhad Iran

²Department of Geography, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

³Department of Geography Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University Of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

⁴Associate Professor Department of Geography, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Khwarazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Regionalism is one of the mechanisms of governments to deal with instability and establish order and security in different regions of the world, and by using this method, national governments have ended wars and conflicts and achieved relative stability and security. The question that is raised is why this mechanism has not been able to work successfully in the Persian Gulf region, in fact, what are the most important obstacles and challenges to the formation of the Persian Gulf regional organization. In this regard, this research, with the descriptive-analytical method and citing reliable library and field sources, first gathered the most important factors and areas of divergence and screened with the method of "coding and categorization" and finally in the form of five economic, political, defense-security, territorial and cultural-social categories. In the stage of field studies, the questionnaire was translated into Arabic and English and was given to the experts of all the countries of the region. In the analysis of the findings, to evaluate the weight and importance of the obstacles and challenges of the formation of the regional organization of the Persian Gulf, a sample t-test was used, and to compare the opinions of Iranian respondents and experts from the Arab countries of the region in this field, an independent correlated t-test was performed using SPSS software. In order to evaluate the most effective obstacles and challenges in the formation of the regional organization of the Persian Gulf, PLS structural equations have also been used.

Keywords

Region; divergence; regionalism; regional organization; Persian Gulf

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