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There are already some robots, though, with soft, flexible bodies, human-like faces and expressions, and a large repertoire of movement.
But there are larger lessons that 9/11 teaches us about the role of narrative and soft power in an information age.
The smaller actor cannot compete with the larger in terms of military might, but it can use violence to set the world agenda and construct narratives that affect its targets’ soft power.
A key lesson of 9/11 is that hard military power is essential in countering terrorism by the likes of Bin Laden, but that the soft power of ideas and legitimacy is essential for winning the hearts and minds of the mainstream Muslim populations from whom Al Qaeda would like to recruit.
A “smart power” strategy does not ignore the tools of soft power.
Rising anti-Americanism around the world threatens to deprive the US of the soft or attractive power that it needs to succeed in the struggle against terrorism.
Poll after poll confirms that America’s soft power has declined, particularly in the Islamic world.
The US government spends 450 times more on hard military power than on soft power.
In short, there are many strands to an effective long-term strategy for creating soft power resources and promoting conditions for the development of democracy.
Bush’s prior announcements of increased development assistance and stronger efforts to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa were not only moral imperatives, but also important investments in American soft power.
Asian countries have impressive potential resources for soft power.
By the end of the century, Japan’s remarkable performance not only made the Japanese wealthy, but also enhanced the country’s soft power.
Now, with signs of a reviving economy, Japan’s soft power may increase even more.
A country’s soft power rests upon the attractiveness of its culture, the appeal of its domestic political and social values, and the style and substance of its foreign policies.
While culture provides some soft power, domestic policies and values set limits, particularly in China, where the Communist Party fears allowing too much intellectual freedom and resists outside influences.
The soft power of Asian countries, then, lags behind that of the US, Europe, and Japan, but it is likely to increase.
Even if the US economy exceeds potential growth over the next year, the effects of fiscal stimulus will fade by the second half of 2019, and the Fed will overshoot its long-term equilibrium policy rate as it tries to control inflation; thus, achieving a soft landing will become harder.
In the several years before that crisis hit, China had been combating inflation, and appeared to be headed for a soft landing.
Under the first, a soft economic landing occurs after China’s new leadership adopts ingenious policies to curb credit growth (especially through the shadow banking system), forces over-leveraged borrowers into bankruptcy, and injects fiscal resources into the banking system to shore up its capital base.
Instead of focusing on securing a soft landing today, Chinese policymakers should be worrying about the brick wall that economic growth may hit in the second half of the quinquennium.
As a result, it has expressed a willingness to cooperate with the US on finding a soft landing for Iraq.
All of these ministries represent low-cost, soft power: official institutions that can enhance pro-change forces’ capacity to mobilize, give them religious legitimacy, and remove the threat of judicial repression as they strengthen unofficial networks on the ground.
Instead, the group’s report underscores the true risk for Europe: a return to the soft budget constraints – both private and public – and excessive borrowing that overheated its southern and western periphery and gave rise to destabilizing trade imbalances.
Though much of the violence in Iraq over the past six years has been random, aimed at soft targets such as markets and restaurants, its nature changed last summer.
If Asia focuses on its trans-cultural ethical core, an entirely new spirit of unity can be developed that uses soft power instead of military force and does not know enemies, but only partners and competitors.
European countries’ success in overcoming centuries of animosity, and the development of a large internal market, has given them a great deal of soft power.
Here Europe’s economic might and soft power have a lot to contribute.
These issues require cooperation in the provision of global public goods and the soft power of attracting support.
Even so, the optimists who spoke last year of a soft landing or a mild “V-shaped” eight-month recession were proven wrong, while those who argued that this would be a longer and more severe “U-shaped” 24-month recession – the US downturn is already in its 18th month – were correct.
It now uses a broad range of hard and soft power, some incommensurate to that of the EU – for instance, the military bases that it has managed to secure in each of the six states.
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