A Model for Formulating Economic Diplomacy Policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran based on the Review of the Higher Level Documents

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1 Professor, Department of Economy of Power, Faculty of Islamic Thought and Economy, Imam Sadegh University, Tehran, Iran

2 MA Student of Islamic Thought and Economy, Faculty of Economy, Imam Sadegh University, Tehran, Iran

3 MA Student of Islamic Thought and Commercial Management, Faculty of Management, Imam Sadegh University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Economic diplomacy is a technique to put foreign policy into practice which follows the economy interest of a country and benefits from the economic capacities at the local and international levels. The quality of economic diplomacy in each country is influenced by the political thoughts which are commonly expressed through the higher level documents. The aim of the current study was to suggest a model for designing the policies of economic diplomacy based on the analysis and procedures mentioned in the higher level documents. The 2025 general perspective document, general policies in the 4th, 5th, and 6th development plans, and the general policies of resistance economy were the guidelines for this model. The research method was content-analysis and the data collection was library-based. After identifying the clauses related to the subject matter, the coding was done which resulted in 172 basic themes and 35 organizational themes subcategorized into 12 general themes (redesigning foreign policy through economic and civilization priorities, localism, technology transmission, improving foreign commerce, benefiting from foreign investment, productive interaction with regimes and economic organizations at the local and international levels, enhancing Iranian national brand, strengthening commercial logistics, benefiting from the geographical position, designing a general plan, combating the challenges and foreign economic sanctions, and empowering the diplomacy of energy) that were extracted by an exploratory model. Lastly, the suggested model for designing the policies of economic diplomacy for the Islamic Republic of Iran showed that they should not only have meaningful relationship with regards to the predictive plans, but also keep the positive aspects, compensate the lacks, and consider the potentialities.

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Quarterly Journal of The Macro and Strategic Policies
Volume 9, Special Issue
December 2021
Pages 106-130

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