Can U.S. Aid and Assistance Continue Playing a Soft Power Role in the Muslim World?

Abstract

Realists believe that power is central in international relations. A
state’s survivability needs power capability to combat against any likelihood
of aggression. The power of a state is a combination of hard and soft power,
which is considered as smart power. States with major power adopt foreign aid
strategy as an aspect of instrument of foreign policy to persuade and attract other
states to achieve what it intends from that state. War and cohesion have become
unpopular nowadays; democracy has widely taken ground and embraced by
several nations, especially after the end of the Cold War. The United States’
power requires smart method through persuading and entertaining cooperation
regardless of its undisputed global strength. Some Muslim countries like Egypt,
Jordan, and Pakistan have benefited from US aid and assistance; in return the
United States found its foreign objectives through. The paper investigates the
strategies of the United States in its future aid to these countries, after the United
States’ recognition of Jerusalem as a new capital for Israel, which resulted in
the subsequent United Nations General Assembly voting results.