Autore: Falco, Gaetano
Titolo: Is Conflict Destructive or Constructive? Arguments of ‘Soft Power’ and ‘Hard Power’ in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Periodico: Textus
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 55 - Pagina finale: 78

Kriesberg (2015) notes that conflicts do not always involve violent coercion and destructiveness; they are forms of relationships where one party tries to induce another to change perspective, through the resources of ‘soft power’ (Nye 2021). Unlike ‘hard power’ which settles conflicts using economic and military means, ‘soft power’ is one party’s ability to exploit its culture, values and policies to co-opt another party. This research uses Corpus-based Discourse Analysis (Baker 2023; Gilling, Mautner and Baker 2023) and the pragma-dialectical approach to the study of argumentation (van Eemeren and Grootendorst 2004) to investigate how the United Nations (UN) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), managed and are managing the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Exploring two corpora – UN resolutions and ICJ decisions – the study addresses the following research questions: are the UN and ICJ’s arguments structured in the direction of a constructive or destructive conflict? Do they exert ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ power? What techniques and types of speech acts do they use to resolve differences of opinions?




SICI: 1824-3967(2025)1<55:ICDOCA>2.0.ZU;2-E
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