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It advocates soft power, but focuses only on the substance and not enough on the process.
In the mortgage market, the IMF saw prospects of a soft landing.
It would also be self-defeating strategically: the soft but intense power of the democratic values that the West claims to defend constitutes the most effective defense against Chinese influence operations.
Asia’s major economies continue to grow and integrate, whereas the US economy remains soft, and its leaders’ attention is increasingly focused on its domestic challenges.
This simple act could demonstrate the importance of Europe’s soft power, which frightens the Islamic Republic more than the threat of military force by keeping the media spotlight on the regime’s human rights record and emphasizing its growing isolation.
But there would be damage to Europe’s sense of mission and its soft power of attraction.
Today, however, that Franco-German couple looks more like Europe's soft underbelly.
The very moment he appears on the world’s television screens, victorious and smiling, America’s image and soft power would experience something like a Copernican revolution.
In other words, the US will have to use its soft power to create networks and institutions that will allow it to cooperate with China, India, Japan, Europe, and others to deal with transnational problems – for example, monetary stability, climate change, terrorism, and cyber-crime – that no country can solve unilaterally.
This limits China’s soft power.
As long as this flow of cheap money continues, so will capital flight; no adjustment in consumption will take place so long as the country faces only a very soft budget constraint.
Meanwhile, it distorts reality to view Spain’s entire banking sector through the prism of the cajas, the savings banks that are the soft underbelly of the Spanish financial system.
Development will take a long time, and the international community needs to explore better ways to make sure that help actually reaches the poor, but both prudence and a concern for soft power suggest that the US should take the lead.
When successful, such leadership increases American soft power while reducing sources of instability.
That will require combining the soft power of attraction with the hard power of military might to produce a “smart power” strategy for providing global public goods.
The lesson policymakers drew is that Hungary's deep integration into the international economy makes it impossible to pursue soft macroeconomic policies; the impact of such laxity on Hungary's external balances is immediate because international capital markets lose confidence quickly in the country.
America’s Democrats knew this as well as the Republicans, but President Johnson was afraid to approach China because his party was supposedly soft on communism.
And, last but not least, Macron has a huge store of soft power and political capital, similar to Barack Obama after grassroots enthusiasm brought him to power in the United States in 2008.
The real strength of the US is not its military power but its soft power, which has been badly eroded not just by Trump, but also by persistent racial discrimination.
And they are almost certain to diminish what is left of Britain’s soft power.
The bad news is that he still does not understand soft power – the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion.
As The Economist commented about Rumsfeld’s speech, “until recently he plainly regarded such a focus on ‘soft power’ as, well, soft – part of ‘Old Europe’s’ appeasement of terrorism.”
But it is a mistake to count too much on hard or soft power alone.
During the Cold War, the West used hard power to deter Soviet aggression, while it used soft power to erode faith in Communism behind the iron curtain.
To be smart today, Europe should invest more in its hard-power resources, and America should pay more attention to its soft power.
During President George W. Bush’s first term, Secretary of State Colin Powell understood and referred to soft power, whereas Rumsfeld, when asked about soft power in 2003, replied “I don’t know what it means.”
Fortunately, in his second term, with Condoleezza Rice and Karen Hughes at the State Department and Rumsfeld’s reputation dented by failures that in the private sector would have led to his firing or resignation, Bush has shown an increased concern about America’s soft power.
Of course, soft power is no panacea.
For example, soft power got nowhere in attracting the Taliban government away from its support for Al Qaeda in the 1990’s.
Nor will soft power be sufficient to stop Iran’s nuclear program, though the legitimacy of the Bush administration’s current multilateral approach may help to recruit other countries to a coalition that isolates Iran.
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