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Author Parmar, Inderjeet

Title Soft Power and US Foreign Policy : Theoretical, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
Routledge studies in US foreign policy.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The future of soft power in US foreign policy; 2 From hegemony to soft power: Implications of a conceptual change; 3 Soft power and strategy: Developing a 'strategic' concept of power; 4 The unbearable lightness of soft power; 5 The Power Game, soft power and the international historian; 6 Challenging elite anti-Americanism in the Cold War: American foundations, Kissinger's Harvard Seminar and the Salzburg seminar in American studies; 7 Technological leadership and American soft power
8 The military use of soft power information campaigns: The challenge of application, their audiences and effects9 Public diplomacy and the information war on terror; 10 Soft power in an era of US decline; 11 Cheques and balances: The European Union's soft power strategy; 12 The myth and reality of China's 'soft power'; 13 Responding to my critics and concluding thoughts; Index
Summary Soft power is the use of attraction and persuasion rather than the use of coercion or force in foreign policy. This title features a chapter outlining views on soft, hard and smart power and offers a critique of the Bush administration's inadequacies. It gives the various insights in to both soft power and the concept of power itself
Notes Print version record
Subject Diplomatic and consular service, American.
Diplomatic and consular service, American
International relations
SUBJECT United States -- Relations -- Foreign countries
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Cox, Michael
ISBN 9780203856499
020385649X
1282570196
9781282570191