The American Foreign Cultural Strategy After The Cold War

After the Cold War, with the new changes in the international situations and its own factors, the United States particularly pays attention to applying cultural strategies in the country’s foreign policy. America’s successful application of cultural strategy in protecting its national strategic interests with sound effects is not only intimately related to its deep-rooted political-cultural traditions and internal requirements of its cultural values of freedom and democracy, but also the result of America’s emphasis on maneuvering government official institutions, non-governmental organizations, civic groups, international corporations and individual activists into extensively and actively participating in spreading American cultural values. This paper mainly analyzes and studies America’s foreign cultural strategy after the Cold War from the perspective of International Relationships, targeting at specific research and analysis of characteristics of America’s foreign cultural strategy and its implement process, implement motivations as well as its influences and significance for borrowing on Socialist China. Detailed and specific elaboration and demonstration of America’s foreign cultural strategy could aid us to more clearly comprehend the essence of its cultural strategy, more dialectically view its significant functions in protecting national interests and help to implement China’s cultural strategy in a theoretical way. This paper largely deals with the following contents in elaborating and analyzing post-Cold War America’s foreign cultural strategy.This paper intends to analyze the significance and the basis of the topic, to sort out and explain the Chinese and foreign scholars’research achievements on American cultural strategy and to state the research methods and the innovations of this paper. The summarization of the concepts, features, contents and related theories sources of Post Cold War American cultural strategy makes the understanding of American culture strategy be more precise and more objective. Thus it gives theoretical supports to the specific implementation of Post Cold War American cultural strategy. This paper specifically analyzes the implementation process and the main performance of the American cultural strategy from the aspects of American official government agencies, non-governmental organizations, multinational corporations as well as individuals and other factors. It especially elaborates and analyzes the cultural strategies and cultural foreign policies of the period from the post Cold War time to present time which covers the time from President George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush to Barack Obama.This paper mainly analyzes the specific reasons why the United States to implement foreign cultural policies in the Post Cold War era. After the Cold War, the United States implemented cultural strategies for both external and internal reasons. Under the international environment, this paper mainly analyzes in the three aspects from the pattern of international politics, globalization to the third wave of nationalism; under the domestic situation, it mainly explores from the United States’deeply rooted traditional cultural values and the relatively weakness of its national power in the Post Cold War years to explain the reasons why American implement the cultural strategies.At last,from the perspective of socialist China,this paper investigates the impact and referential significance of American culture strategy.In the post-cold war era,relations between the USA and China are the top priority of American foreign relations.China is also one of the principal targets for America to pursue the culture strategy,which concerns American overall global strategic interests.American culture strategy in China can not only foster Chinese people’s sense of identity with America by influencing the Chinese people’s cultural value and living habit,but also interfere in Chinese economy,politics and foreign affairs.Furthermore,America hopes to meet the challenge of Chinese developing to the new world order and retain its world hegemony. China should positively carry out Chinese characteristic culture strategy along with its advantages, so as to safeguard state culture security and interests and promote the cultural exchanges between china and he word on the basis of equality and common development.