نشریه مطالعات قدرت نرم
پیاپی 7 (پاییز و زمستان 1391)

ulture is one of the important sources of Soft Power that makes esearchers to study about the culture of Soft Power to preferment ultural activity to increase Soft Power. Among different subjects, Rahiyan oor is one of the newest method to increase the Soft Power of Islamic Republic of Iran. Rahiyan Noor is one of the best way to transfer values of holy defense of Iran to current generation. From year 1377 with presence of Imam Khamenei in Shalamche area, presence of families and people increase hightly and more and more people come to these areas each year. This matter shows the importance of cultural programs. So increasing cultural programs is the first priority of managers. Recognition of effective subjects of Soft Power of Rahiyan Noor in visitors of holy defense areas especially for teenagers is the first aim of this article and we can add another parameter to it that is by improving cultural programs in future we can makes people more familiar with these matters. Research has been done with questioners form and analyses. Results also show that Rahiyan Noor is arises from culture of testimony that have special effect in visitors. We shouldn’t forget the influence of advertisements, exhibition, and specials areas that arises from idealism of soldiers.

In society beside social changes there is two kind of political social variation. First variation of superstructure that is related to revisers of social and second infrastructure changes that is called social revolution. Most researchers know social revolution as a severity subject. But in fact Holy Quran and holy religious books describe Prophets as an element of social changes. So the main question of this article is what are the traits of variations of social subjects in Holy Quran? In fact, which facts changes social pattern and which method are preferred by Quran? The method we use to answer this question is paradigm GIS method. This method used for subjects that have background in the past. The results are that social changes can be successful without using any force. And in Holy Quran we can find that social subjects have guideline aspects. So the method of using social patterns is the key role in defeat of pharaoh by Mosa. So we can realize that picking up thoughts is the key to manage social changes.

Has the US soft power been declining since 50 years ago? Based on documentary method and based on soft power components according to J.Nye, I will try to answer this question. Soft power, in contrary of hard power, is based on a state’s image and moral influence in international scene. Importance of soft power for achieving the national interests is not lesser but since World War II, different processes have shown US soft power declining in international level. I show that some trends has worked to reduce this soft power. These include conflict between playing role of global leadership by the US with its economic interests and political expediencies from one side and forming, Third World traditionalism, especially expressed in Arab Spring, from the other side.

This study aims to determine how the hidden curriculum components affect on political dimension of Islamic-Iranian identity of secondary schools girl´s students of Tehran city. This research has a qualitative approach and so, has selected samples(5 schools and 30 students) purposefully (chain sampling), and has collected data by the use of Techniques, including: Interview(semi guide), Observation(collaborative) and checkdocuments. Data analyzed according to qualitative content analysis. Reliability of findings confirmed member check, triangulation, external check and Interviews by researcher. Finding showed; positive and negative effects of hidden curriculum components on political dimension of Islamic-Iranian identity of secondary schools girl´s students in cognitive, emotion and behavioral levels.

This article titled as “Implementation of Foreign Policy, Soft Power and Communication: Case Study of United states of America (1993-2001)” is a theoretical and practical effort to identify how the United States Soft Power during the William Jefferson Clinton presidency (1993-2001) shaped. This study attempts to answer this question “Use the communications in the United States of America during the William Jefferson Clinton presidency (1993-2001) what impact has on US power?“and present a re-interpretation, which is considered slightly different from the Foreign Policy of the United States of America during a particular time, based on specific theoretical framework that is a result of making link among various concepts such as Power, Soft Power, Communication and Foreign Policy. This researchhas tried to relate the subject of Soft Power to the methods of implementation of Foreign Policy of the United States of America through a discursive explanation of Soft Power and using a connection between communication and implementation of Foreign Policy, and based on this relation, it describes and expresses, methods of implementation of the Foreign Policy of the United States of America in this era. In short, the result of this survey can be explained in one sentence that Persuasive Communication tool is the most important element and factor in expanding the American discourse, and in this way, creating an attraction and Soft Power for the USA in this period of time.

Events in the region took place with a certain speed in 2011. These changes have caused challenges for analysis so much so that the future has become difficult to predict. During history, the countries of the region, relying on international powers, have been trying to play a regional leadership role. The importance of this issue is due to the fact that there still is some competition among countries of the region, like Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, to achieve these goals, Having utilized a comparative method, the researchers want to answer this question that regional developments in 2011, what have effected on soft power and influence of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey? Findings of this research show that the rate of soft power and influence of Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia based on indicators of three main sources of Joseph Nye soft power theory, respectively is 54, 49 and 37.