When people talk about foreign influence in public, they often only talk about small issues, like who paid whom or whether a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Penny Abeywardena is a CEO & international affairs expert. Americans embarked on two soft power initiatives to eradicate drug ...

Soft power is defined as a nation’s ability to influence the preferences and behaviors of various actors in the international arena (states, corporations, communities, publics etc.) through attraction ...

The concept of soft power has become a hot topic in Southeast Asia of late, and Japanese stakeholders have been taken aback by the extent to which Korean soft power has penetrated Thai youth culture.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Penny Abeywardena is a CEO & international affairs expert. People tend to think of power as a zero-sum game: to get power, one ...

Joseph Nye: ‘Soft power means that others want what the United States wants. It’s not just a question of whose army wins but of whose story wins’ - Alamy Joseph Nye, who has died aged 88, was the ...

“Hard power is a willingness to fight – and any idiot can do that.” One of the things that distinguishes soft power from hard power is that the former is a two-way relationship. The point of hard ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? “Power, like love, is easier to experience than to define or measure,” Joseph Nye once wrote. That’s even more true when it comes to soft power ...

Andreas Kluth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US diplomacy, national security and geopolitics. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for the Economist. One ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Over the past two decades, subsequent Chinese governments have invested heavily in ...