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But other goals, such as promoting democracy and human rights, are better achieved by soft power.
This does not mean that Rumsfeld’s Pentagon is irrelevant to American soft power.
Military force is sometimes treated as synonymous with hard power, but the same resource can sometimes contribute to soft power.
A well-run military can be a source of attraction, and military cooperation and training programs can establish transnational networks that enhance a country’s soft power.
The US military’s impressive work in providing humanitarian relief after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 helped restore America’s attractiveness, and enhanced its soft power.
But the misuse of military resources can also undercut soft power.
The Soviet Union possessed a great deal of soft power in the years after World War II.
Doing so – and thus being in a position to win the war – is impossible without soft power.
At the end of that period, participants would receive soft business-startup loans from European development banks to create employment in their countries of origin.
These examples show that hard power and soft power go together.
Even if the judiciary remains uncompromised, America’s international soft power and status as an economic safe haven may not.
To be effective, secondary and tertiary schools must produce graduates with both soft skills, such as communication and teamwork, and relevant technical skills.
With such an approach, the US could revive its reputation as the “land of opportunity,” which has been so critical to US soft power in the past.
Every soft number — and there have plenty lately — is given a positive spin (“euro-zone economic fundamentals remain strong” or “the economy remains robust”) -- and the media goes along with the deception.
Today, one-quarter of the world’s population still lives on the equivalent of less than one US dollar a day, and the World Bank says that the daily spending power of 1.2 billion people is roughly equal to the price of a hamburger, two soft drinks, or three candy bars in the West.
After all, dialogue is not only a soft policy instrument for handling matters like trade or environmental cooperation; it is also essential to any security policy that looks beyond deterrence.
Outside of the eurozone, the strength of the United Kingdom’s recovery and the Bank of England’s soft forward guidance have led to similar “unwarranted” increases in interest rates, which the BoE, like the ECB, seems unable to prevent in the absence of more muscular action.
With his careful combination of hard and soft power, Bush created a successful strategy – one that accomplished American goals in a manner that was not unduly insular and with minimal damage to the interests of foreigners.
A better approach would be to look to the long run, use the soft power of attraction, expand exchanges and contacts with Russia’s new generation, support its participation in the World Trade Organization and other market-oriented institutions, and address deficiencies with specific criticisms rather than general harangues or isolation.
Finally, while one can understand a former superpower’s temptation to seize its opportunity to return to a muscular foreign policy, Russia’s bullying in the energy area is destroying trust and undercutting Russia’s soft power in other countries.
Moreover, its culture (both traditional and popular), overseas development assistance, and support of international institutions provide resources for soft, or attractive, power.
And its soft power is undercut by ethnocentric attitudes and policies.
China’s actions shocked many Japanese and undercut its soft power in Japan.
Moreover, achieving a successful soft landing requires more than that holders of dollar-denominated assets be tranquilized into catatonia while they lose their shirts.
Digital technologies have enabled the emergence of an “intangible economy,” based on soft assets like algorithms and lines of code, rather than physical assets like buildings and machinery.
In this respect, the EU’s most valuable tools are its signature, Nobel Prize-winning model of multilateral dialogue and soft power.
America’s traditional sources of influence – its soft power, regional alliances, and financial leverage – appear to be running dry.
Each packs the kind of soft, utilitarian powers of persuasion that Chinese leaders are most willing to embrace: academic degrees from prestigious universities, advanced scientific and technological knowledge, high office, and a Nobel Prize.
The financial crisis laid bare the soft underbelly of globalization.
The BJP’s strategy of painting the Congress as soft on terror and demonizing Muslims as an existential threat to India badly misfired.
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