An Analysis On Obama's "Smart Power" Diplomatic Strategy

"Smart Power"diplomatic strategy is the main feature of the Obama Administration , which has a profound impact on the world politics.This paper focuses on the content of Obama's"smart power"diplomatic strategy.朗显示对应的拉丁字符的拼音字典The study is a qualitative research, which uses the national interests theory as the theoretical basis and takes the"smart power"foreign policy instance as the root after Obama took office to implement it, and uses the methods such as induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, abstract and general to discuss the causes and impact of the practice by the new U.S. Administration's foreign policy. In addition, This article uses the case analysis and comparative analysis to discuss and research the"smart power"strategy application and practice with the national interests theory , which concludes the meaning and essence of"smart power"diplomatic strategy.In short,"smart power"strategy is a long-term strategy, which uses"soft power"and"hard power"to achieve the national interests of the United States by flexibility, ingeniousness, comprehensiveness.The national interests theory of international relations can be applied to study Obama Administration's"smart power"foreign policy. When Obama Administration took office, the United States faced severe situation and it has been unable to response to global challenges. To safeguard U.S. national interests, the Obama Administration uses the main tone of the"smart power"diplomatic strategy as its external guidelines. In the field of international relations, national interests are the integrated value index which can analyze the U.S."smart power"diplomatic strategy . After this analysis, we think that"smart power"diplomacy is just the diplomatic strategy and means in the Obama Administration which is in the light of changes and its fundamental purpose is to safeguard the fundamental interests of U.S. and maintain U.S. world leadership.