Sport International Relations
AmirHoseyn Monazzami; Mahdi Shariati Feizabadi; Sadegh Ranjbar
Abstract
Religious and political challenges with Saudi Arabia in the last decade, followed by the burning of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, invited the sport of the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially national an club’s football, to a new problem. The purpose of this study was to analyze the anti-diplomacy ...
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Religious and political challenges with Saudi Arabia in the last decade, followed by the burning of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, invited the sport of the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially national an club’s football, to a new problem. The purpose of this study was to analyze the anti-diplomacy of Iranian football as a geopolitical challenge against Saudi Arabia. The present study was a qualitative (descriptive-analytical) type of library studies in terms of applied purpose and in terms of data collection; The statistical population was equal to 54 works of international sports relations and in particular sports diplomacy in the Middle East region and the statistical sample was equal to the contents about Iranian football anti-diplomacy, soft power of Iran and Saudi Arabia. The findings of the present study showed that the national teams of Saudi Arabia and Iran, as the main players in the Arab world and the Middle East, respectively, have played a significant role in the development of football in this region and many Asian football achievements, including being on the championship platform in the Asian Champions League. And attending the FIFA World Cup has been the result of the two countries' attention to football as their most popular sport; Finally, football in the confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the Middle East can be a tool for convergence and as one of the basic geopolitical codes of the two countries, which with its soft nature can open a diplomatic path in re-examining the relations between the two countries.
Morteza Rezaei Soufi; Ali Akbar Khasseh; Ali Khasseh
Volume 5, Issue 3 , July 2018, , Pages 49-62
Abstract
Using scientometric techniques, this paper tries to examine the position of Iranian sport sciences researches in Web of Science during time span 2000-2016. This research uses scientometric techniques. Documents indexed in Web of Science comprises the population of the current study. Findings ...
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Using scientometric techniques, this paper tries to examine the position of Iranian sport sciences researches in Web of Science during time span 2000-2016. This research uses scientometric techniques. Documents indexed in Web of Science comprises the population of the current study. Findings revealed that during 2000-2016, a total of 615 articles were in the field of sport science in Web of Science. On the other hand, results indicated that Rahnama N is the most productive scientist, Sadeghi H is the most cited researcher, and Sadeghi H owns the highest h-index. Iranian authors of sport sciences have many collaborative articles with their counterparts in USA, Canada, and England, respectively. Moreover, “Exercise”, “Training”, and “Muscle” are the most frequent words in Iranian sport sciences researches. Generally, scientific productions in the field of sport sciences show a significant increase from 2000 onwards. The content analysis of Iranian sports sciences researchers revealed that the majority of articles are about the impact of exercise on body systems, rehabilitation issues, and movement analysis.