Public Diplomacy as a Method for Struggling Terrorism and The Role of Persuasion Processes in Practices

There has been a paradigm change in terrorism studies which is a subfield of security studies, especially after the 9/11 attacks in the United States. This substantial change forced NATO to put into practice article 5 for the first time in the history of the organization. New job descriptions were included in the agenda of the organization such as struggling with uncertainty, instability, and multifaceted threats after the Cold War which initiated a new phase however, caused several fields and disciplines interested in terrorism. In this study, it is explored the extent to which can public diplomacy as a technique of soft power be used, which was coined by Joseph S.Nye and associated with neoliberalism, under the categories of security and terrorism.In addition to that, it attempts to find out the instruments for weakening and eliminating the terrorist organizations with the dialectical concepts of soft power and terrorism. This study is also aiming at a detachment of terrorists from the organization by using a new methodology of “persuasion processes” in public diplomacy as quite a new concept in the security and terrorism studies, which was known as “istimalet policy” in the history. Furthermore, it is aiming to contribute to the literature of terrorism by testing the hypothesis of the applicability of public diplomacy techniques in security and terrorism studies.

Karadağ, H., & Sıkı, İ. (2020). Terörizmle Mücadele Yöntemi Olarak Kamu Diplomasisi ve İkna Süreçlerinin Uygulamadaki Rolü. Diplomasi Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2(1), 39-55.