America vs. Iran: The Competition for the Future of the Middle East

by Danielle Pletka, Frederick W. Kagan, J. Matthew McInnis (Introduction)

Overview

A review of the soft-power strategies of both the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Middle East and Afghanistan makes clear a disturbing fact: Tehran has a coherent, if sometimes ineffective strategy to advance its aims in the Middle East and around the world. The United States does not. This report, the culmination of a process of both examining Iranian actions and surveying American policy, policy responses, and soft-power strategies in the region, focuses on the US side of the equation. Despite the Obama administration’s commitment to replace hard power with smart power, what the United States pursues in the Middle East is a set of incoherent, ineffective, and increasingly irrelevant policies.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148261179
Publisher:	American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Publication date:	01/13/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	696 KB

About the Author

Danielle Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Frederick W. Kagan is the Christopher DeMuth Chair and director of the Critical Threats Project at AEI. J. Matthew McInnis is a resident fellow at AEI, where he focuses on Iran, specifically its intentions, strategic culture, military power, and goals.