The Decline of America's Soft Power, Measures and Components

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America with a population of over 300 million people, GDP and per capita income 200/47 66/14 trillion dollars, the largest and most powerful advanced economy in the world, but in the last few years and due to the unstable economic situation In the face of the world, followed by America with the deficit and external debt, as well as the emergence of protests in the country to unequal economic conditions prevailing in America, the country's foreign policy during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a reason America's intervention in crises Middle East led to some theorists, America's power is challenged in the application and explained the grounds for its decline. Convincing governments and peoples of the world, but internal and external policies incompatible with the values and cultural preferences of its claims, the power Aqnaknndgy decline has brought it. The authors using analytical methods and statistics are seeking to investigate the hypothesis.

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