Conceptology of Soft Discourse and Strategic Environment Affected by it

Soft discourse or softwarism in security-strategic studies can be considered in four general concepts of soft power، soft war، soft security and soft revolution. This discourse and the concepts derived from it became increasingly important or formed in the context of the information age، and its requirements such as informationization and networkization. Based on these assumptions، the paper tries to pay to the concept of soft discourse through providing an operational definition of four above-mentioned concepts and after that، reviews the effects of this discourse on the strategic environment. According to the author، these effects can be summarized in informationization، networkization، intangibility، the possibility of playing role by small countries، violence avoidance and identity-centric.