The Analysis of America’s Cultural Diplomacy in Iraq after 2003

Gohari Moqaddam, Abuzar; Jafari Harandi, Amir Reza

The Analysis of America’s Cultural Diplomacy in Iraq after 2003

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Applying hard and soft power from the beginning of Iraq occupation in 2003 was the US main agenda in Iraq. Cultural interventions as the main tool of exerting soft power became official after the 2008 Strategic Agreement between the two states. This paper is going to answer the following question: what are the US main purposes in pursuing cultural diplomacy as one of the enforcing tools of soft power in Iraq? The analysis of these programs would be demonstrative of America’s main objectives. The study is designed in a descriptive-analytic manner and upon analysis, it became apparent that their main goal is to change the views of common Iraqi people about west and promote liberal western culture instead of Islamic culture.

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