دور القوة الناعمة في إعادة تشكيل الشرق الأوسط : العراق و سوريا أنموذجا

الملخص EN

Soft power (values, domestic policies, foreign policy), and hard power (military and economic) considered both as the primary sources for the power of the state in international relations.

Technological development and the growing challenges of globalization both has pushed at the present time to increase the value of the soft power of the states as they seeks to enhance their own appropriate influence on each other in order to achieve thier targets.

Moreover, while the hard power combines the temptation and threats to get the best results, the soft power focus on the attraction force represented by the model in order to get effectively voluntary compliance.

Nevertheless, we cannot separating the two forces in order to reach the targets, because the weak soft power makes the lonely hard power more expensive and less effective.

In addition, the weakness of the hard power makes the soft power has a limited effect.

In contrast, the state who have the both powers, and use it in a good way at the suitable place and time, it will be the country, who win the real power to be able to determine the agenda of others, and control its outcomes.

The Middle East, today, suffering from the other's soft power whether they are (states or non-governmental organizations or international organizations), and facing a real risk in reconfigured, this can be seen from events in Iraq and Syria.

However, the Middle East countries has soft power elements, but it did not manage it in a good way, and often relied on the hard power alone in managing its international relations, then the results were disastrous for all parties.

Therefore, they are in dire need to review their previous strategies to develop new strategies based on effective employing of the soft and hard power in order to achieve their targets.

If the hard power represents the amount of the government's strength, the soft power represents the amount of people strength, the powerful nations are taking their strength from both people and governments, and this is the real overall strength for those who wish to possess the ability to compete for success in contemporary international politics.