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The concept of soft power was incorporated into Russia’s 2013 Foreign Policy Concept, and in March 2016, Russian Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov stated that responding to such foreign threats “using conventional troops is impossible; they can be counteracted only with the same hybrid methods.”
What is soft power?
Soft power is the ability to get what you want through attraction and persuasion rather than threats of coercion or offers of payment.
Soft power is not good or bad in itself.
The soft power of attraction can be used for offensive purposes.
In response, they tried to develop Russian soft power by promoting an ideology of traditionalism, state sovereignty, and national exclusivity.
Information warfare can be used offensively to disempower rivals, and this could be considered “negative soft power.”
By attacking the values of others, one can reduce their attractiveness and thus their relative soft power.
Information warfare goes well beyond soft power, and it is not new.
But broadcasting that seems too propagandistic lacks credibility and thus does not attract – or produce soft power among – some audiences.
With international politics becoming a game of competitive credibility, exchange programs that develop personal relations among students and young leaders are often far more effective generators of soft power.
But while Russian information warfare has been somewhat successful in terms of disruption, affecting the 2016 US election somewhat, it has failed in terms of generating soft power.
Ironically, rather than pocketing the Trump bonus, Russia’s information warfare has handicapped the US president by greatly reducing Russia’s soft power in America.
In China, the credibility of the incoming leadership will depend in large part on whether the economy can consolidate its soft landing.
Despite this reform push, some British Euroskeptics have criticized Cameron for being too soft.
Given a slow economy, a failed welfare state, and uncontrolled immigration – challenges for which no mainstream parties on the right or the left have any coherent proposals – the appeal of the far right’s soft populism will continue to haunt France and Europe.
Particularly in the Middle East, where revolutions are likely to last for a generation, a smart combination of hard and soft power will be difficult to achieve.
The UK’s first goal is to maintain a soft border and frictionless trade with the Republic of Ireland, which will remain an EU member state, subject to the rules of the European single market and customs union.
Others 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.
This is the other side of the public-goods challenge: while China has plenty of experience delivering physical infrastructure, it has been less successful in delivering soft infrastructure, such as competition rules, accounting standards, tax systems, and regulatory norms.
But once innovators succeed in creating effective “sewbots” capable of manipulating soft material, many existing jobs in clothing and textile manufacture will also be threatened.
This is super-charged American soft power.
So why is all of this – Tibet on the one hand and American soft power on the other – so significant?
The combination of lack of confidence in US corporate accounts, lack of confidence in America's economic policy management (compounded by the mounting deficits), and America's soft underlying economic fundamentals, has dented the US economy's global reputation.
Soft Power and the Struggle Against TerrorismLast year, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, asked Secretary of State Colin Powell why the United States seemed to focus only on its hard power rather than its soft power.
After the war in Iraq ended, I spoke about soft power (a concept I developed) to a conference co-sponsored by the US Army in Washington.
According to a press account, "the top military brass listened sympathetically," but when someone asked Rumsfeld for his opinion on soft power, he replied, "I don't know what it means."
But power, defined as the ability to influence others, comes in many guises, and soft power is not weakness.
On the contrary, it is the failure to use soft power effectively that weakens America in the struggle against terrorism.
Soft power is the ability to get what one wants by attracting others rather than threatening or paying them.
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