Soft War: From Threat to Response

At times, some concepts and words denote paradigmatic changes. Among such concepts, one may refer to soft war and soft threat. They do not merely refer to the emergence of new confrontation methods or novel security and political developments; rather, beyond that, they signify the emergence of new doctrines in the context of international rivalries and conflicts. Based on this assumption and considering the conceptual confusion and theoretical perplexity commonly observed in this field, the present article attempts to provide definitions and theoretical models to clarify the boundaries and limits of these concepts benefiting from the scientific literature and making inferences from similar incidents.