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Some eurozone policymakers seem to be confident that a Greek exit from the euro, hard or soft, will no longer pose a threat to the other periphery countries.
Thus, politically, a hard Brexit is actually the soft option for the government.
Soft power is their means.
Together with the abuses of human rights under his administration, the Great Recession – the predictable (and predicted) consequence of his economic policies – did as much to weaken America’s soft power as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan did to weaken the credibility of its military power.
In their mind, the hard power of the United States is more important than its soft power, and their vision of an America “bound to lead” is largely unchanged.
Unlike Trump’s US, China recognizes that the UN can serve as a platform for it to assert global influence, while building up its soft power.
If these liberal democracies – which do wield their share of soft power – remain passive, the international order will continue to weaken, potentially to the point that it is shaped primarily by brute force, rather than diplomacy, cooperation, or the rule of law.
This was a meaningful increase after ten consecutive quarters of deceleration, and it marks the Chinese economy’s second soft landing in slightly less than four years.
Just as the soft landing in early 2009 occurred in the aftermath of a horrific American-made crisis, this latest one followed the European sovereign-debt crisis.
In the absence of rebalancing, any one of several potential tipping points could seriously compromise the economy’s ability to pull off another soft landing: deteriorating credit quality in the banking system; weakening export competitiveness as wages rise; key environmental, governance, and social problems (namely, pollution, corruption, and inequality); and, of course, foreign-policy missteps, as suggested by escalating problems with Japan.
Without rebalancing and reforms, the days of the automatic Chinese soft landing may be over.
Even after Trump is long gone, soft power will not suffice in a world of hard-power conflicts.
But under ineffectual governance, particularly during the last three years, India is in danger of degenerating into a soft state.
As for soft power, Europe has long had wide appeal, and Europeans have played a central role in international institutions.
Yet America was great before Trump, and his behavior – riding roughshod over international agreements, trashing allies, and pursuing protectionist trade measures – will only undermine that greatness by, among other things, depleting the country’s formidable stock of soft power.
Europe has the world’s healthiest and most educated population, its largest economy, and huge stores of soft power, owing also to its commitment to human rights and democratic values.
For Europe, soft power far outstrips hard power.
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.
Some have reputations and credibility that give them impressive domestic as well as international soft power.
Even if May remains at the helm of the next government, she will have to negotiate a Brexit agreement that will have little chance of getting through the House of Commons, as all other parties (including even Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, on which her next government would have to rely) want a relatively soft Brexit.
Should current sanctions fail to do the job, Europe and the US should widen them to include the oil and gas sector, which is the engine (and soft underbelly) of the Russian economy.
To gain the Cuban vote in Florida, American politicians are tough on Fidel Castro; to secure Jewish votes in New York, they are soft on Israel.
A second line of action is to strengthen the international institutions’ soft powers to aim for more consistent economic policies, especially by systemically important economies.
Popular culture can often be an important source of "soft" power.
The US doesn't have to make others look like little Americans, but it does have to live up to its core values in order to use its soft power effectively.
America is not perfect, but as long as it abides by its core values, it can overcome its mistakes and regain its soft power in democratic countries.
For example, America was extraordinarily unpopular at the time of the Vietnam War, yet it recovered its soft power within a decade, and it is interesting to consider why.
America's democratic values will be the key to success in restoring its soft power.
After WWII, America was able to use soft power resources and co-opt others into a set of alliances and institutions that lasted sixty years.
When we recall the Cold War, it is important to remember that America's strategy of containment combined the deterrent of its hard military power with the attractiveness of its soft cultural power, which eroded confidence and belief in Communism behind the Iron Curtain.
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