The Public Diplomacy of America vis-à-vis Egypt’s Developments

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Gholamreza Karimi ¹ , Hosseinali Toti ² , Syed Mohammad Reza Mosavi ³

1 - استادیار دانشگاه خوارزمی
2 - دانشجوی دکتری دانشگاه خوارزمی
3 - دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی

Received: 2013-11-24 Accepted : 2014-02-20 Published : 2014-02-20

Keywords: Egypt, public opinion, America, Revolutionary developments, public diplomacy,

Abstract :

Abstract The recent wave of developments in the Middle East gave a new place to public diplomacy and soft power in regional diplomacy of the United States and on this basis the structural engineering of Egypt in cultural, social, political and economic aspects was put on the agenda by the American strategist. The present paper by raising this question as to “what has been the public diplomacy of the United States vis-à-vis Egypt revolutionary development after Mubarak till ouster of Morsi?” comes to this conclusion that with the occurrence of recent developments and challenges put to the United States diplomacy machinery, the United States initially tried to take the help of public diplomacy to improve the public opinion of people of Egypt  towards herself and keep Hosni Mubarak on its place but with the overthrow of Mubarak, the United States by the help of public diplomacy wanted to direct the future developments of Egypt in a direction that she be able to keep her dominance on groups who are supporter of America  and neutral groups. In the next phase after the dismissal of Morsi the United States for managing the crisis of Islamic awakening of people of Egypt put the programme of “public opinion engineering” on the agenda.

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