Sport International Relations
Azim Salahi Kojour; Morteza Dousti
Abstract
Sports diplomacy is an approach that politicians and statesmen of the world use people and sports events to create a favorable image of their country among foreign organizations and governments. The present research was conducted with the aim of formulating strategies for the development of sports diplomacy ...
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Sports diplomacy is an approach that politicians and statesmen of the world use people and sports events to create a favorable image of their country among foreign organizations and governments. The present research was conducted with the aim of formulating strategies for the development of sports diplomacy based on global experience. The current research was based on the purpose of applied research and was exploratory in terms of data collection. The data collection tool was a semi-structured in-depth interview. The statistical population included experts in the field of macrospores management, strategic management, diplomacy, international relations, and sports sociology at the level of deputy ministers, presidents of the federation, advisers to the minister, and university professors, and a targeted sampling method was used to select experts. The final model of the total of Causal conditions (2 categories and 13 concepts), the necessary contexts and contexts (3 categories and 13 concepts), interventionist variables (3 categories and 13 concepts), strategies (3 categories and 11 concepts), and consequences (3 categories and 10 concepts) were formed. Therefore, for the development of sports diplomacy in the country, it is better that statesmen and politicians seek to create a favorable image of their country among foreign organizations and governments by using people and sports events.