Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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PhD Student in International Relations, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran Iran
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Assistant Professor of International Relations, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran
Abstract
This article seeks to examine the characteristics of soft power between Iran and the United States in modern Iraq from 2016 to 2020. And the United States is trying to manage and control the developments in Iraq using soft power, and Iran is trying to export the values of the Islamic Revolution to Iraq. This leads to a confrontation between two soft powers, political Islam led by Iran and Western liberal democracy In the new realm of politics, soft power is one of the tools that political units use to achieve their national and strategic goals and interests. A power that, according to its theorists, is more effective than hard power. As Trump's inauguration marks the decline of soft power in the United States and his government with the first American discourse, magnify it again, trying to serve American interests by distancing itself from liberal and democratic values and using neorealist approaches. And Iran, as an independent country in order to achieve its goals in the Middle East, and Iraq is one of the countries that has a very important place in Iran's foreign policy, and has more harmony and ideology with the values of Iraqi society, and It uses its soft power capacities to improve relations with this government. this article, in the framework of Joseph Nye's theory, the two countries of Iran and the United States, and while examining and explaining the components of soft power, will compare these characteristics in the political and cultural dimensions in Iraq.
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