The Elements of Soft Power of Cultural Management of Revolution versus the Western Cultural NATO

This paper tries to investigate the elements of soft power in the front of cultural management of revolution versus the western cultural NATO. After re-identifying the notion of cold war and the measures taken during that period, the reason and the manner of the formation of NATO have been investigated with a military approach. Some issues such as the victory of Islamic Revolution, disintegration of the Soviet Union, as well as the wakefulness of the Muslim and Oppressed nations, have caused the founders of NATO to face with the necessity of a change in their approach and functions. Combating against awakening Islam or the green threat, in the form of combating against terrorism, becomes NATO's agenda; and the cultural NATO, begun from the period of cultural cold war, takes a new form. After an identification of cultural NATO, its features and the western's principal purposes in resorting to cultural NATO in the period of post- modern colonialism in the light of soft power, and the NATO's strategies in regard to Islam and Iran have been studied. Then, the elements of soft power of Islamic Revolution for organizing the management of cultural front against the western cultural NATO, as well as the requirements of this management have been reviewed. At the end, in view of Islamic Revolution and its soft power, reinforcement of soft power and cultural normalization have been introduced as the ways to combat against cultural NATO, and some other strategies for facing up to it have been stated.