Chabahar Port

The globalization and urban development concepts are closely linked to each other. However, all cities around the world are not affected same by globalization, each one has its spatial and reciprocal international-local action. The international changes of economy, culture, and politics have huge effects on restructuring of cities around the world. The present study as a descriptive-analytical study aimed at investigating the regional-urban development indexes of Chabahar Port as well as analyzing the improvement conditions of commercial activities resulting from globalization process. To collect the data required in the study, precise library and field studies were done. The population of the study includes the inhabitants of Chabahar, 85633 people according to nation-wide census of 1390. By applying the Cochran sampling method, 380 persons were selected as participants to fill the questionnaires. In order to analyze the data, the one-sample T test and SPSS software were used. Based on the findings of the study, the mean of regional-urban development indexes of Chabahar Port is 3.17 and the T statistic is 4.955. Hence, the influence of globalization process on the regional-urban development process is nearly average, as a result the regional-urban development indexes of Chabahar Port are in a good condition. Among the regional-urban development indexes, the &ldquocommunication&rdquo index statistic with 10.818 and the &ldquoHousing&rdquo index statistic with 5.538 more than other indexes affected by the globalization process and trade development.

In the wake of US withdrawal of Iran nuclear deal, or JCPOA, and re-imposition of sanctions, Iranian policymakers came down gradually in favor of cooperation with the East, chief among them China, culminating in the signing of 25-year Iran-China and the adoption of Iran’s Look East Strategy in 2021. Considering the changing flux in Iran’s diplomacy toward the regional cooperation and ever-increasing Sino-Iranian rapprochement, the main question of this contribution is about the effect of Sino-Iranian rapprochement on India, one of Iran’s biggest Asian trading partners. The main hypothesis states that Sino-Iranian rapprochement has led India to expand the scope of its connectivity projects through Iran, throwing spoke in the wheel of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in South and Central Asia. Constructivist Institutionalism (CI) developed by Hay was adopted as the theoretical framework. The methodology used for this research is based upon qualitative methodology and discourse analysis to focus on Iran and India relations in the context of Iran’s Look East strategy. Our findings indicate that Indian policy makers are following the Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam principle in their engagement with Iran, seeking to increase Iran-India ties in the face of Chinese competition with long-term strategic and security deal. As part of India’s civilizational role in the Central Asia and a response to growing Chinese footprints in the region, India has undertaken certain concrete measures such as institutionalization of India-Central Asia summit on a multi-lateral framework and inclusion of Iran’s Chabahar port in the International North-South Corridor. The research findings reveal that the corporate remains the weak link in the chain of the state-temple-corporate complex of the Hindu nationalist BJP in relation to Iran. India is also set to lock in cooperation with Iran through long-term strategic deal, institutionalizing security cooperation, and strengthening the private sector participation in Chabahar project.