Research Political Geography Quarterly

Explaining the concept and dimensions of strategic depth of countries

Document Type : مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

Authors

majid dehghanian 1
ebrahim roumina 2
mohammadreza hafeznia 3
mostafa qaderihajat 4

1 ph.d student

2 Associate Professor of Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University

3 Professor of Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University

4 Assistant Professor of Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University

https://doi.org/10.22067/pg.2025.91389.1329
Abstract
Precise policymaking and the adoption of comprehensive and purposeful strategies in the realm of foreign policy are fundamental needs of countries. Based on their power capabilities, countries are keen to expand their sphere of influence and increase their role in the region or surrounding regions and influence them. It can be said that today, the scope of this influence has gone beyond the purely military sphere and includes a wide range of components that shape the concept of strategic depth.
This study aims to provide a comprehensive and multi-dimensional definition of the concept of strategic depth and identify the factors that influence it, using a combination of library and field methods. In the library section, while reviewing the theoretical literature, various definitions and dimensions of strategic depth have been examined. In the field section, by designing a questionnaire and distributing it among professors and faculty members of the country's universities, experts' opinions on the components of strategic depth were collected and analyzed using SPSS software.
The findings of the research show that strategic depth is a multi-dimensional and dynamic concept that goes beyond geographical boundaries and includes political, economic, cultural, social, and military dimensions. In this research, 14 main components for strategic depth have been identified and ranked based on experts' opinions.

Keywords

Strategic depth
geopolitics
foreign policy
national security
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