Forcing the Common Good

The Significance of Public Diplomacy in Military Affairs

Bibliographic Data

ID2341004
AuthorsHaluk Karadag (0000-0001-7577-763X, Turkish Military Academy, Kara Harp Okulu Dekanligi, Ankara, Turkey, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume43
Issue1
Pages72-91
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArmed Forces & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0095-327X • E-ISSN: 1556-0848
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0095327x16632334
OpenAlexW2300474101
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited13

Hard power, the unorthodox foreign policy mechanism, has emerged recently as a complex agency that uses military power to regulate diplomatic relations between military and civilian actors. Although national governments use hard power rather frequently to influence foreign public opinions, the field's scholarship tends to downplay the role of military instruments in the development of public diplomacy. Almost all armed forces contribute to various public diplomacy efforts by applying basic tools, including humanitarian-relief operations and construction works, and international military education and training programs. This article analyzes these tools in the context of soft power and public diplomacy and demonstrates the impact of military power on public diplomacy. It also reconstructs the effective time frames of public diplomacy works of the military by introducing a novel pattern to understanding these works

Agency (philosophy) · Context (archaeology) · Diplomacy · Foreign policy · Hard power · International relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public Diplomacy · Public relations · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Soft power · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration

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