World Soft Power Index 2023" (PDF) . Retrieved 31 October 2023. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status ( link) However, its jang-e-narm strategy has several critical weaknesses: credibility problems (including corruption), the ability of Western governments and companies to identifyand target Iranian influence operations, low public opinion, and vulnerabilities from U.S. and other Western soft power.

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The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, which oversees relations with non-Shia Muslims; The country boasts several world-famous cities: Rome was the ancient capital of the Roman Empire and seat of the Pope of the Catholic Church. Rome is generally considered one of the "cradles of Western civilization and Christian culture". [64] [65] [66] Florence was the heart of the Renaissance, a period of great achievements in the arts [67] which marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. Other important cities include Turin, one of the world's great centers of automobile engineering. Milan is one of the "Big Four" fashion capitals. Venice, with its intricate canal system and history of seafaring, attracts tourists from all over the world especially during the Venetian Carnival and the Venice Biennale. Surowiec, Pawel, and Philip Long. "Hybridity and Soft Power Statecraft: The ‘GREAT’ Campaign." Diplomacy & Statecraft 31:1 (2020): 1-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2020.1721092. online review Nye, Joseph (8 May 2012). "China's Soft Power Deficit To catch up, its politics must unleash the many talents of its civil society". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 6 December 2014.International Student Mobility: Patterns and Trends". WENR. 2007-10-01. Archived from the original on 2020-08-13 . Retrieved 2020-09-11. While there has been considerable focus in the United States on Iran’s military capabilities and activities, there has been far less attention devoted to Iran’s “soft power” and its efforts to expand influence. This brief focuses on Iranian soft power and asks: How do Iranian leaders view soft power? How does Iran attempt to export soft power? And what are Iran’s weaknesses? To answer these questions, this report compiles quantitative and qualitative information— some of which is new—on elements of Iran’s soft power. Its usefulness (Giulio Gallarotti, Niall Ferguson, Josef Joffe, Robert Kagan, Ken Waltz, Mearsheimer vs Nye, Katzenstein, Janice Bially Mattern, Jacques Hymans, Alexander Vuving, Jan Mellisen)

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Oliver, Christian. "South Korea's K-pop takes off in the west". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020 . Retrieved 30 July 2013. How civil resistance (i.e., non-violent forms of resistance) can often involve certain uses of soft power, but remains a distinct concept (Adam Roberts, Timothy Garton Ash)

The main characters of the novel are Bredan and Ioulia. Bredan is an American professor at the MIT in the field of Information Technology, who was hired by the NSA, in the book the " National Software Agency". Ioulia is a Russian software engineer who happened to be his student in the 80's. Asia and more recently China have been working to use the potential soft power assets that are present in the admiration of their ancient cultures, arts, fashion and cuisine. [45] China is presenting itself as a defender of national sovereignty, [46] which became an issue after the NATO air campaign to oust Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and NATO's support of the rebels in Libya. [47] The Chinese are also competing with the United States to gain influence throughout the South Pacific, however some commentators have said their recent assertiveness in this region has created an appeal for nations in this region to align with the United States thus increasing U.S. soft power in this area. [48]

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Sergi, Bruno S. (2018-01-01). "Putin's and Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union: A hybrid half-economics and half-political "Janus Bifrons" ". Journal of Eurasian Studies. 9 (1): 52–60. doi: 10.1016/j.euras.2017.12.005. ISSN 1879-3665. Fraser, Matthew (2005). Weapons of Mass Distraction: Soft Power and American Empire, St. Martin's Press. Analysis is focused on the pop culture aspect of soft power, such as movies, television, pop music, Disneyland, and American fast-food brands including Coca-Cola and McDonald's. Sobrinho, Blasco José (2001). Signs, Solidarities, and Sociology: Charles S. Peirce and the Pragmatics of Globalization. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p.115. ISBN 9780847691791 . Retrieved 16 March 2023. [...] the notion of a 'second face of power'" — less 'obvious' to empirical observation — introduced in 1962 by Peter Bachrach and Morton Baratz in 'The Two Faces of Power.' The views of Bachrach and Baratz, presented comprehensively in their 1970 book Power and Poverty drew [...] upon post-empiricist (post-positivist) philosophy of science to argue that [...] social science should consider those aspects of political life that are covert and 'nonobvious.' [...] Bachrach and Baratz put forward the concept of the 'nondecision,' which they defined as 'a decision that results in suppression or thwarting of a latent or manifest challenge to the values or interests of the decision-maker.'Nye, Joseph (3 May 2004b). "Europe's Soft Power". The Globalist. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 30 July 2015. Wastnidge, “The Modalities of Iranian Soft Power: From Cultural Diplomacy to Soft War,” Politics 35, nos. 3-4 (2015): 364-377. these lines, positions continue to rely on a discourse of firmness or even intransigence, but the conditions justifying that major powers have recourse to armed force to face one another are increasingly difficult to bring together. I would add a certain interdependence, often mentioned in the case of the Washington-Beijing relationship, but no less obvious if one looks closely at the relationships between other major powers that are nonetheless often described as rivals and supposedly on the verge of war, like China and Japan. Under increasing scrutiny for their warlike posturing, these two countries remain closely associated economically, in particular in the context of negotiations on the establishment of a free trade agreement. Beijing and Tokyo are fighting a battle of influence and leadership in Asia in which the importance given to armed forces seems to come more from nationalist rhetoric than any real strategic ambition. It is no doubt normal that these two powers are suspicious of each other, as the weight of the past is still very present. However, it would be an exaggeration or a mistake to see them as being on the verge of war, especially if it were to be triggered by a long-standing disagreement over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands that, although they agitate nationalist militants in China and Japan, do not justify a full-scale conflict. Defense Science Board, Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication (Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics" (PDF). September 2004.