Document Type : مقالات علمی -پژوهشی
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Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch
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Department of Political Geography, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Unit, Tehran, Iran
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Faculty member of Farabi University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
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Member of the Faculty of Geography, Imam Ali Officers University, Tehran, Iran
10.22067/pg.2026.91930.1338
Abstract
The factors and contexts of regional convergence have been mentioned in various studies in a scattered and numerous manner. The aim of this article is to organize the above factors by focusing on the Persian Gulf region and prioritize them. The research is exploratory in nature and falls into the category of basic-applied research. The research method is qualitative, which was carried out using the directional content analysis method. 25 articles were selected as the sample size based on the thematic similarity index and close content. Based on the integration and aggregation process, the final categories were determined and their prioritization was carried out based on the AHP model and using the Expert Chois software.
In general, the factors and contexts affecting regional convergence in the Persian Gulf include political and geopolitical factors, social and cultural factors, economic and market factors, activity factors, common history and geography, resources and infrastructure, and military-security factors, which reflect the comprehensive and holistic agency of social, economic, and political dimensions in the phenomenon of regional convergence. The results of the AHP model also confirmed this issue and showed that factors from social, economic, and political dimensions such as abundant oil and gas resources (0.220), water scarcity and pollution (0.157), worldview based on religion and common values (0.125), and economic interactions related to oil and gas (0.071) are in a spectrum in terms of impact coefficient. But in reality, the purely one-dimensional view of the political actors in the Persian Gulf region has, in a vicious cycle, always led to the emergence of new divergent factors in the region and has made the conditions for cohesion and convergence between the countries of the region very difficult.
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