The Synergic Interaction of Soft Power with Public Diplomacy against Soft War

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Masoud Jaafarinejad ¹ , Afsaneh Khosravi ² , Mohammad Neamatpour ³

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Received: 2011-01-23 Accepted : 2011-11-24 Published : 2011-12-01

Keywords: Soft War, Public Diplomacy, Soft power, propaganda,

Abstract :

he public diplomacy in one way like political propaganda because it tries to convince people to think in a particular way but on the other hand it is different from political propaganda because it listens to what people say. The present article while examining the principle, function, objective and aspects of public diplomacy answer a main question whether the basis of American public diplomacy makes use of soft war and what interaction soft power has with the above said diplomacy? The hypothesis of the paper is that the difference between public diplomacy and soft war is their pattern of connection. Soft power in a synergic interaction paves the way for furthering public diplomacy. The main objective of the article is to emphasize on soft aspect of public diplomacy. In this direction the bases of public diplomacy cannot be accompanied with soft war. Besides this public diplomacy have several aspects. One that it creates suitable atmosphere for foreign policies of governments, second that public diplomacy is against soft war because the soft war thinks in a realistic atmosphere and intends to make use of propaganda and psychological war to unconsciously influence their audiences. Soft war intentionally makes use of deception, lie and distortion of realities