Soft Power is the ability of a nation to shape preferences of others by setting up examples through its values and culture, as opposed to the hard power executed through “military threats and economic inducement”.
November 12, 2021Subsumed as the world is by North Korea’s perennial sabre-rattling, the tendency has been to hyphenate the two countries of the Korean peninsula and view them primarily through a North East Asian security prism
September 29, 2021The US foreign policy approach to China – from President Donald Trump’s bellicose words and the recent prospect of a trade war, to the administration’s description of China as “a revisionist power” – has been criticised as ineffectual bluster, particularly in the face of growing uncertainty over Washington’s commitment to its allies. But more, it …
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September 13, 2018