Attraction
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It exerts
attraction
through the benefits if offers and, simultaneously, it imposes tremendous penalties on countries that seek to withdraw.
Likewise, the enduring
attraction
of supply-side economics, despite all of the evidence against it (especially in a period in which there is high unemployment), will prevent raising taxes at the top.
The fact that 60-70% of the receipts would come from London is an added
attraction
for its continental advocates.
As Nye put it, a country’s power rests on its “ability to alter the behavior of others” to get what it wants, whether through coercion (sticks), payments (carrots), or
attraction
(soft power).
When we live up to our own best traditions, we can stimulate emulation and generate the soft power of
attraction.
Soft power rests on
attraction
rather than coercion or payment.
Added to hard power,
attraction
can be a force multiplier.
Indeed, the absence of official cultural policies can itself be a source of
attraction.
But this argument misses a crucial point: cooperation is a matter of degree, and the degree is affected by
attraction
or repulsion.
When the national bathtub has holes, and other people benefit from the warmth, the exercise loses its
attraction.
Then one day it might become a popular tourist
attraction
– and finally serve a useful purpose.
Barack Obama understands this networked dimension of leadership and the importance of the soft power of
attraction.
When we live up to our own best traditions, we can stimulate emulation and create the soft power of
attraction.
But none of us can deny the
attraction
of the flags under which those athletes compete, the anthem that is played for the winners, and, ultimately, that impossible-to-ignore, regularly-updated medal tally, listing the gold, silver, and bronze medals awarded to each country, the Games’ real honor roll.
The same could presumably be said today of Russia’s fatal
attraction
to the former Soviet republics.
Power in a global information age, more than ever, will include a soft dimension of
attraction
as well as the hard dimensions of coercion and payment.
Although electrons are negatively charged, and therefore repel one another, the positive ions that they leave behind when they flow through a metal can mediate an effective
attraction
between two electrons under restrictive conditions (for example, the metal must be very cold).
This is especially true of investors in a currency whose strongest
attraction
is its safe-haven status.
With new patent laws coming into place, India will have the same
attraction
for the pharmaceutical industry as it has for IT, providing clinical trials for new drugs at a quarter of the cost of Europe or the US.
The magnetic
attraction
and repulsion between the two has been going on for centuries.
Dubai’s growth and resilience is attributable to its “ABS model” of attraction, branding, and state-led development.
As one businesswoman I interviewed put it, “Dubai has all the ingredients of an extremely popular
attraction
for investors and tourists from around the world,” with “a substantial number of Arab youth aspiring to come and live the ‘Dubai Dream.’”
Just as a car’s ABS makes it easier for a driver to slow down or change course to avoid dangerous obstacles, Dubai’s state-led development apparatus can realign its
attraction
and branding activities in accordance with its growth goals and changing circumstances in the Middle East and beyond.
That will require more use of the soft power of
attraction
rather than relying so heavily on hard military power, as the Bush administration has done.
The
attraction
of the RMB should come from China’s strong economic fundamentals and faith in its economy.
Indeed, part of international investors’
attraction
to countries like Vietnam and China is not simply that wages are low, but that the absence of democratic rights promises to lock in cheap labor for years to come.
Now Russia’s invasion of Georgia has shattered even the illusion of
attraction.
NGO's do not have coercive "hard" power, but they often enjoy considerable "soft" power - the ability to get the outcomes they want through
attraction
rather than compulsion.
The New Nuclear ThingWASHINGTON, D.C.: For half a century, nuclear war was avoided thanks to deterrence and the notion that striking first held little
attraction
because the other party could and would retaliate with devastating consequences.
But there would be damage to Europe’s sense of mission and its soft power of
attraction.
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