Soft Power
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Joseph S. Nye, Jr. coined the term “soft power” to describe a nation’s ability to attract and persuade. Whereas hard power—the ability to coerce— grows...
Published By PublicAffairs
Format Paperback
Category
Number Of Pages 208
Publication Date 04/27/2005
ISBN 9781586483067
Dimensions 5.45 inches x 8.2 inches
“Policy makers who are reshaping America’s world role and contemplating the decline of American prestige will find Joseph Nye’s Soft Power indispensable.”—Dallas Morning News
“Nye combines a theoretical argument about the nature of power in the modern, interdependent world with a practical critique of the unidimensional vision of the Bush administration, drunk on its image of military prowess and blind to what his subtitle calls the means to success in world politics.” —Washington Post Book World
“As brilliant as it is timely, Professor Nye’s book is must reading for anyone who cares about the success of America and the world.”—Madeleine K. Albright