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Indeed, China has been shifting from hard power to soft throughout the region, and is using its economic power to challenge Western-dominated multilateral institutions.
America’s capacity to maintain alliances and create cooperative networks will be an important dimension of its hard and soft power.
If the neo- conservatives had instead focused their attentions on strengthening the soft power of Turkey, they could have done far more to advance the cause of democracy in the Middle East.
One of the difficulties of making the case for enlargement is that to sell it in Germany or Austria requires the assurance of closed, watertight eastern borders, while to sell it in Poland, Hungary or the Czech Republic needs the promise of soft, open ones.
This does not mean being soft on crime.
From this perspective, every step that brings us closer to the EU is also a step towards resolving this so-called “frozen conflict” – perhaps the only European secessionist conflict that can be solved through EU soft power alone.
Optimists point out that China has engaged in good neighbor policies since the 1990’s, settled border disputes, played a greater role in international institutions, and recognized the benefits of using soft power.
Hard power works through payments and coercion (carrots and sticks); soft power works through attraction and co-option.
Despite those limits, the UN has considerable soft power that arises from its ability to legitimize the actions of states, particularly regarding the use of force.
The job of UN Secretary General involves very little hard power, but some people have filled the post with great effect, using their soft power resources to leverage the hard power of governments.
The UN has impressive power – both hard and soft – when states agree on policies under Chapter 7 of the Charter.
It has modest but useful soft power when great powers disagree but are willing to acquiesce in a course of action.
Soft power is real, but it has its limits.
Combining hard and soft power is a difficult task for many states – but no less necessary for that.
Norway joined NATO for defense, but developed forward-looking policies on overseas development assistance and peace mediation to increase its soft power.
Japan’s single-minded focus on economic growth achieved its goal, but the country developed only modest military and soft power.
In its first decades, communist China built its military strength and simultaneously used the soft power of Maoist revolutionary doctrine and Third World solidarity to cultivate allies abroad.
In 2007, President Hu Jintao proclaimed the importance of investing in China’s soft power.
So, as the Obama administration struggles to implement its smart-power strategy in the current revolutionary conditions of the Middle East, it is worth noting that the US is not alone in confronting the difficulties of combining hard and soft power successfully.
Citizens, it was thought, had to become more self-reliant; government welfare programs were making everyone soft and dependent.
And the negotiating parties must move beyond the soft “intended nationally determined contributions,” agreed to last month in Lima, to establish legally binding commitments.
Commodity prices will continue to be soft, pulling down commodity currencies, and bolstering the yen especially, since resource-poor Japan is so reliant on commodity imports.
Today’s hardcore Russian nationalists consider Putin’s regime too soft, too pragmatic, too reasonable – in their language, “weak and indecisive.”
To make this formula work, however, requires a good deal of soft power.
Without the soft power that produces attraction and loyalty to the leader’s goals, entrepreneurs run off in all directions and dissipate a group’s energies.
With soft power, however, the energy of empowered followers strengthens leaders.
Moreover, US President Barack Obama, facing an election in November, does not wish to be accused of being soft on Iran, making it difficult for the West to reciprocate potential Iranian overtures.
The strategy applies escalation and de-escalation of power in a flexible manner and avails itself of all instruments of politics and power – soft and hard.
A Chinese military posture that is too aggressive could produce a countervailing coalition among its neighbors, thereby weakening China’s hard and soft power.
True, the Fund has been notably soft on the United States of late, downplaying the continuing vulnerabilities posed by the gaping US current account and trade deficits.
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