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The image of Europe in seemingly terminal decline is sure to undermine its soft power.
Moreover, many public services are so-called "soft services."
On the contrary, the EU’s commitment to using its extensive soft power is what enabled it to assert its influence over a large chunk of the former Soviet bloc.
Indeed, Europe’s soft power was based on the promise of freedom, prosperity, and security.
The EU can recover its soft power in its eastern neighborhood only if it recovers its hard power.
This is precisely the principle that today’s Russia, which lacks soft power, views as a threat.
Though designing an effective response to Russian aggression will not be easy, the EU’s much-vaunted soft power depends on it.
The soft underbelly of Putin’s imperial ambitions is Russia’s brittle and undiversified economy, and the expectations of ordinary Russians for improved living standards.
No other country is capable of picking up the slack if America's economy remains soft.
The second was about a conspiracy between the Reds and "Pinkos"-- the Communist leaders and the "soft" leftists who represented Solidarity at the Round Table talks -- that supposedly saved the Communists from total disgrace and allowed them to stage a comeback as a new party of the Left.
Europe does not face a choice between soft and hard power.
Indeed, given extremist violence in Sri Lanka (Tamil Tigers), West Bengal (Naxalites), Bangladesh (Islamic fundamentalists), Southern Thailand (Islamic separatists), Java (Jemaah Islamiyah), and Basilan (Abu Sayyaf), the possibility that Al Qaeda and its satellites are plotting attacks elsewhere, especially against soft targets, poses a real danger to the region.
To be sure, the ESS’s three basic tenets – development assistance, soft power, and effective multilateralism – remain important.
The ESS’s emphasis on soft power is also in urgent need of reassessment.
Specifically, the strategy emphasizes the importance of the EU’s enduring soft power, in which prospective enlargement plays an important role, while acknowledging that soft power alone is not enough to ensure security.
The mastery of soft skills correlates to improved outcomes in school, work, and life.
Yet, until recently, training in soft skills has not been integrated into formal education systems on the continent.
The government recently integrated Akazi Kanoze’s approach in the national curriculum to equip secondary and TVET students with the soft skills they require to succeed.
Based on the success of integrating soft skills into the curriculum in Rwanda, The MasterCard Foundation and EDC will launch a similar program in Senegal later this year.
African governments, with support from the international community, can help students’ transition from school to work by relying on a curriculum that elevates the importance of soft skills.
Both cities not only permit the freer flow of goods, services, capital, technology, talent, and resources, but also meet global standards in terms of regulations, business practices, soft infrastructure, and even lifestyles.
But that shift can happen in two ways: a soft landing, in which China continues to grow at the slower-but-sustainable trend rate, or a hard landing, involving a financial crisis and more severe economic recession.
It is still possible, then, that China is on track for a soft landing.
A couple of years ago, the world seemed to be stepping up to the challenge with innovative governance models in a range of areas that rested heavily on soft or non-binding mechanisms, rather than the strict rules of the past.
By establishing a framework of overlapping soft and hard obligations, the Paris accord evaded objections that had previously blocked progress.
Besides abandoning any Gaullist pretensions, the other lesson Germany must learn is that influence is based not only on soft "civilian power," but also on hard military capabilities that are adapted to the exigencies of the post-Cold War world.
China’s large state sector (which accounts for more than 30% of GDP) is usually careless about losses, owing to the soft budget constraints under which they operate.
Japan, the old wartime enemy, has been outmaneuvered repeatedly, and a soft touch made South Koreans and Southeast Asians feel relatively comfortable with China’s increasing power.
True, the disappearance of growth is abrupt and more drastic than a soft landing; the carnage in high tech is pretty awful.
Today, the US has no such integrated strategy for combining hard and soft power.
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