A Geopolitical Analysis of the American Soft Power and Its Reflection on the Global Political Map

  • Naseef Salem

Abstract

The strategic geographic location is one of the most important factors that helped the growth of soft power and its development in managing crises morally in order to achieve the tactical goals required in those strategic locations of the world, in addition to that, the work on the development of international relations and the highlight of global forces aimed at research on the extension of influence and redress balances of forces according to traditional and modern methods of power, including soft power, in showing control and acquisition of areas with a spatial and political sense of the world and working to draw a new political map that is in line with the strategic goals of those powers with a geographical perspective, and these methods have pushed the geopolitical position to develop mobility and political and economic interaction with foreign policy of the United States, and on a number of methods in pressing the countries of the world when practicing this policy in order to achieve certain goals, and despite the ability of the United States of America to deal in a direct and coercive manner directly, it needs what is called soft power in the process of attracting and earning without causing losses in materials and humans. Accordingly the need for so-called  Soft power, as its importance comes from its strength in managing its foreign policy file, which gave it great importance and from regional and international aspects, as it is characterized by geopolitical and strategic characteristics, as the case applies to the Chinese strategy according to its foreign policies that are based on the principle of economic agreements with tactical goals required in drawing the map of global politics, which raises the question of the nature of the direction of the Middle East, and then this is reflected in the future of the relationship in light of regional and international changes according to the geopolitical perspective.

Published
Aug 29, 2020
How to Cite
SALEM, Naseef. A Geopolitical Analysis of the American Soft Power and Its Reflection on the Global Political Map. Journal of Tikrit university for humanities - مجلة جامعة تكريت للعلوم الانسانية, [S.l.], v. 27, n. 6, p. 220-200, aug. 2020. ISSN 1817-6798. Available at: <https://jtuh.tu.edu.iq/index.php/hum/article/view/1084>. Date accessed: 05 may 2024. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/hum.v27i6.1084.