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But the gutting of the Bundeswehr also disables Germany’s ability to exercise soft power.
But the economy is not all that is under threat;Russia’s soft power is dwindling, with potentially devastating results.
China, for example, has been attempting to use soft power to cultivate a less threatening image – one that it hopes will undermine, and even discourage, the coalitions that have been emerging to counterbalance its rising economic and military might.
A country’s soft power rests on three main resources: an appealing culture, political values that it reliably upholds, and foreign policy that is imbued with moral authority.
Likewise, though establishing a Confucius Institute in Manila to teach Filipino people about Chinese culture may help to cultivate China’s soft power, its impact will be severely constrained if China is simultaneously using its hard power to bully the Philippines in the territorial dispute over the Scarborough Shoal.
The problem for Russia is that it already has very little soft power with which to work.
Indeed, as the political analyst Sergei Karaganov noted in 2009, Russia’s lack of soft power is precisely what is driving it to behave aggressively – such as in its war with Georgia the previous year.
To be sure, Russia has historically enjoyed considerable soft power, with its culture having made major contributions to art, music, and literature.
By 1989, they had little soft power left.
Despite his 2013 declaration that Russia should be focusing on the “literate use” of soft power, he failed to capitalize on the soft-power boost afforded to Russia by hosting the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
But one of the paradoxes of soft power is that propaganda is often counterproductive, owing to its lack of credibility.
Today, much of America’s soft power is produced not by the government, but by civil society – including universities, foundations, and pop culture.
Indeed, America’s uncensored civil society, and its willingness to criticize its political leaders, enables the country to preserve soft power even when other countries disagree with its government’s actions.
Putin may understand that hard and soft power reinforce each other, but he remains seemingly incapable of applying that understanding to policy.
Obama’s election has done much to restore American “soft” power, but he will need to follow up with policies that combine hard and soft power into a smart strategy of the sort that won the Cold War.
Democracy promotion is better accomplished by soft attraction than hard coercion, and it takes time and patience.
Still, given a severe financial crisis, declining home prices, and a credit crunch, the US is facing its longest and deepest recession in decades, dashing any hope of a soft landing for the rest of the world.
Second, the settlement came at a time when the American authorities faced heavy criticism for being soft on big banks during and after the 2008 financial crisis.
Europe does not increase its influence by berating the US for acting in its national interest;2. showing some understanding for the view of some in the Bush administration that the US should not be bogged down by a continent that is soft, decadent and moralizing.
Some observers have criticized former US President Barack Obama for being too soft on the issue, because he allowed China to assert its claims unchecked over the past eight years.
Voluntary codes to limit sugar in soft drinks and reduce salt levels in processed foods are a positive step; but they are far from adequate.
While recent polls suggest that Japan retains substantial soft power globally, this is not the case in its immediate neighborhood.
Reflecting America’s global leadership after World War II, the West was protected by US hard power and shaped by US soft power.
Their attraction to the Union is a sign of the appeal - the "soft power" - of the idea of European unification.
The Iraq War proved costly to American soft power, with the US losing about 30 percentage points of attractiveness on average in Europe, including in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war.
We can all benefit from the soft power of an enlarged Europe.
While China’s authoritarian regime faces major challenges in translating its economic might into soft power, its leaders are clearly benefiting by advocating for open global trade.
The appearance of virtue is an important source of a leader’s soft power or the ability to get what one wants by attraction rather than coercion or payment.
Machiavelli also stressed the importance of the hard power of coercion and payment when a leader faces a tradeoff with the soft power of attraction, “since being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself.”
There may yet be a soft landing, whether slow or fast: during the last major dollar cycle, between 1985 and 1987, the dollar fell by 40% without ever causing panic, major bankruptcies, or a demand by investors for a substantial dollar risk premium to compensate them for holding assets denominated in a declining currency.
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