SHARP POWER AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: A COMBINATION OF THE INCOMBINATIBLE?
The article observes the discourse about the methodological and theoretical frameworks of the sharp power’s concept. Since the first publications about sharp power in 2017, this concept has already become the central issue of all researches on public diplomacy in the world. Sharp power observed by western researchers as the antipode of soft power, which is used by «authoritarian regimes» (including Russia, China, Iran and a number of other states) to destabilize «democratic» countries. Such formulations raise a number of questions regarding the subjectivity and academic depth of the new concept. An analysis of U.S. public diplomacy demonstrates that the Western community officially condemns sharp power methods. The author makes a conclusion about the fake and ideological meaning of sharp power and the formation of its methods as a trend in modern international relations.