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A world, in which states’ hard power is contending with the soft power of transnational ideas, invention, and finance, needs rules.
Under the new conditions, a soft sell may, more than ever, prove more effective than a hard sell.
For example, China tried to enhance its soft power by successfully staging the 2008 Olympics, but its domestic simultaneous crackdown in Tibet – and subsequent repression in Xinxiang and arrests of human rights lawyers – undercut its gains.
Great powers try to use culture and narrative to create soft power that promotes their advantage, but they do not always understand how to do it.
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.
Public diplomacy is an important tool in the arsenal of smart power, but smart public diplomacy requires an understanding of credibility, self-criticism, and the role of civil society in generating soft power.
If it degenerates into propaganda, public diplomacy not only fails to convince, but can undercut soft power.
Instead, it must remain a two-way process, because soft power depends, first and foremost, upon understanding the minds of others.
China lowered trade barriers and offered soft loans and investments to help its southern neighbours.
With these actions, Russia has diminished the sense of invincibility that, since the end of the Cold War, has driven the West to pursue policies that provoked international conflict and undermined its own moral authority and soft power.
Against this background, “primacy” seems like a more accurate description of a country’s disproportionate (and measurable) share of all three kinds of power resources: military, economic, and soft.
It has also contributed to the economic slowdown in China, raising concerns (which I believe are exaggerated) that the country’s new leadership may have problems engineering a soft landing for an economy accustomed to double-digit (or high single-digit) growth.
In an increasingly dangerous geopolitical environment, the EU can no longer rely solely on soft power.
Latin America did well when soft money flowed in, but those times are largely over.
More generally, while China spends billions of renminbi in efforts to increase its soft power in Asia, its behavior in the South China Sea contradicts its own message.
This was a not a war Georgia wanted; it had believed that it was slowly gaining ground in South Ossetia through a strategy of soft power.
This trend is exacerbated by the declining efficiency of financial resources in the state sector, a product of the soft budget constraint implied by easily accessible, cheap capital.
China’s soft power versus Russia’s hard power: the two countries’ choices reflect their very different levels of self-confidence.
Enhancing America’s soft power, safeguarding its supremacy as a hub of unparalleled innovation, upgrading its decaying infrastructure and faltering educational system, and ridding itself of its addiction to foreign credit might do more to secure America’s global leadership than the most successful of wars.
In fact, Xi has lately toned down his description of China’s aims, recently telling Communist Party leaders that, “We should increase China’s soft power, give a good Chinese narrative, and better communicate China’s message to the world.”
Additional signs of weakness, including soft data on exports and investment, emerged in the first half of 2015.
Indeed, Putin's soft authoritarianism is now probably the greatest threat to greater democratization in Russia.
Under the current soft authoritarian regime, I can see only one rather negative scenario for the future: authentic, full-fledged dictatorship.
Not one political force in Russia knows how to answer the challenges that "soft authoritarianism" has brought.
Russia is hardly an exponent of soft power, yet it deserves credit for the absence of violence during the tournament.
The second group is exemplified by China, which is achieving a soft landing onto a growth path that, while lower than in recent years, remains adequate to support continued progress toward high-income status and financial stability.
For these Europeans, Barack Obama, campaigning under the banner of “hope,” is the ideal choice to restore, as if by magic, America’s soft power.
But is soft power enough for one of the world’s major emerging countries?
Brazil’s unique approach to promoting these ideals is an important source of its soft power, reflected in the broad international support that placed Brazilians atop international institutions like the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Trade Organization.
Yet no country can rely on soft power alone to defend its interests.
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