Description:
Soft power is the use of attraction and persuasion rather than the use of coercion or force in foreign policy. This volume features a brand new chapter by Joseph Nye outlining his views on soft, hard and smart power and offers a critique of the Bush administration's inadequacies. The other contributions to the volume respond to Nye's views from a range of theoretical, historical and policy perspectives giving new insights in to both soft power and the concept of power itself.
Review Quotes:
"The volume delivers on what it sets out to do, that is to offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of the ubiquitous concepts of hard, soft and smart power." - The International Spectator, Vol. 45, No. 4, December 2010, 104-106'...the most exhaustive analysis available to date on soft power and its application to the theory and practice of power and foreign policy.' - The International Spectator, Volume 45, Issue 4, 2010, 106