marziehalsadat alvand; Aboumohammad Asgarkhani
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This study investigates the impact of China's soft power on its foreign policy towards Latin America. Attempts have been made to provide a conceptual framework beyond the Nye’s conceptualization. We study how and why China develops soft power moving beyond Nye’s conceptualization of soft ...
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This study investigates the impact of China's soft power on its foreign policy towards Latin America. Attempts have been made to provide a conceptual framework beyond the Nye’s conceptualization. We study how and why China develops soft power moving beyond Nye’s conceptualization of soft power. It seems that China's political values can be observed in soft power resources such as culture (e.g., traditional Chinese culture, Confucianism), economy (e.g., China's model of development, remarkable commercial and economic relationships), and policy (e.g., principle of equality and mutual benefit). Latin American countries are fascinated by China's development model, business opportunities and investment, and China’s interest in developing relations with them within the framework of South-South cooperation and hopes for accessing China’s growing market. This is the background against which China may promote its soft power.
ramin ghayour; Hanie Jafari
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Diplomacy between Islamic Republic and 5+1 group on Iran’s nuclear program which accomplished to “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” in July 2015, more than ever, is considering by public affairs and to challenge the attitudes.
Some issues are arising from this event, and the main question is ...
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Diplomacy between Islamic Republic and 5+1 group on Iran’s nuclear program which accomplished to “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” in July 2015, more than ever, is considering by public affairs and to challenge the attitudes.
Some issues are arising from this event, and the main question is what causes the success and fruition of Iran's nuclear talks with the world powers after 12 year talks?
Most of the writers and analyzers around the world, by reviewing the atmosphere of Iran and the United States diplomacy, claim these governments were seeking the model of soft power to reach the agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. The main question in this topic is how the soft power could lead the negotiations to Iran nuclear deal?
The authors of this essay believe, despite the differences in objectives of Iran and US, two countries could reach the deal and settle it just by using peaceful means such as negotiation, interaction, changing the tone and rhetoric, persuasion and multilateralism.
marziehalsadat alvand; aboumohammad asgarkhani
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Soft Power is one of the most important aspects of China’s foreign strategy that has emerged in the new century. The Chinese Soft Power is seen mainly as tools for defensive and not offensive goals such as emphasis of Beijing on stability and peace with all countries; cultivating a better image from ...
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Soft Power is one of the most important aspects of China’s foreign strategy that has emerged in the new century. The Chinese Soft Power is seen mainly as tools for defensive and not offensive goals such as emphasis of Beijing on stability and peace with all countries; cultivating a better image from China; correcting the foreign misperceptions and refuting the “China threat” thesis; securing energy security for economical development continuation targeting more cooperation with developing countries; building a network of allies and making attempts for competition based on soft power against great powers in long time. In the present investigation, assessing the china`s soft power sources and tools, it is concluded that sources of China`s soft power are based on three elements of soft power including culture, political values and nature and style of foreign policy that defined by Joseph Nye. But the china`s soft power approach is considerably different from these elements. The debate of China`s soft power has underlined on Chinese traditional culture while Nye`s debate from America’s soft power has expressed the American contemporary culture. Nye puts emphasis on attraction of American political values and institutions such as democracy and human right. But Chinese political values are found in all of three categories of Chinese soft power sources including culture, economy and politic. It’s worth mentioning that it is not a significant separated source from other ones. Finally, some values such as: the “Harmony World” regarding to expansion “Min Doctrine” and “Confucianism Values”; the attraction of Chinese economic development model (Beijing Consensus) and Good-neighbor Policy are underlined in the realms of culture; economy and politics respectively.