The Desirable Model of Establishing National Security by the Islamic Republic of IranThrough Soft Power

Subject Areas : Journal of Law and Politics

Dr. Mahmoud  Kolahchian ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2015-07-13 Accepted : 2015-07-13 Published : 2008-06-21

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Abstract :

Soft power is the ability to form the preferences of others. This ability can be used in two areas,On the one side, to help the national will in order to establish national security and, on the otherside, to accept the activities of a government by public opinion in a national and internationallevel.Regarding this matter, this article is willing to, through disclosing soft power trinity sources(cultural, political, economic) and using Delphi technique and the pyramid of hierarchy whileinvestigating the indexes of trinity sources, determine their priorities over each other and thenwith the aid of Pearson’s Cohesion method tell their relation with national security indexes.This article shows that in the priority of main norms (trinity sources of soft power), culturalnorm has the highest degree, which means six times economic power and three times politicalpower. This undermines the fact that cultural power potentially and political power can possibly(planner and facilitator) affect the providing of soft power.The aim of this research is to provide a desirable model, in which the highest capacity of eachbranch should be used. So three indexes which have gained the highest score in the three abovementioned domains are elected as the schema.In cultural domain the three indexes of having Basij’s beliefs, being loyal to the country’swisdom and being theocentric; in political domain political leadership, revolutionarypersistence, desirable and perfect diplomatic communities; in economic domain commercialpolitics, economic assistances and foreign investment can be taken into consideration. Thismodel can be used in a long time in order to establish and develop national security throughsoft power. In this case economic domain will not be neuter any more and political domainwill be directly effective. This procedure will assist branches to develop together. In thiscase we can be hopeful to establish and develop national security in a long time.