Soft Power and Hard Batons

These examples show that hard power and soft power go together.

Only hard power can deal with them.

Hard power has not become irrelevant, but leaders must develop the contextual intelligence that allows them to combine hard and soft power resources into a smart power strategy.

Economic resources can produce soft power behavior as well as hard military power.

Hard power is there, and it will remain.

Smart power means the combination of the hard power of command and the soft power of attraction.

It took hard military power to sever that tie.

We need hard power to deal with such cases.

Of course, the hard power of command remains important.

The US government spends 450 times more on hard military power than on soft power.

Rather than diluting hard and soft power, immigration enhances both.

Rather than diluting hard and soft power, immigration enhances both.

Hard and soft power can reinforce or undermine each other.

Soft power is not good per se , and it is not always better than hard power.

Balancing hard power relations with governments with soft power support for democracy is like walking a tightrope.

South Korea ranked 9th in hard power resources but performed more poorly in terms of soft power.

As for America, it is down in terms of both soft ideological power and hard military power.

Europeans have felt oppressed by America s excessive demonstration of hard power.

In an information age, smart policy combines hard and soft power.

Europe does not face a choice between soft and hard power.

Some people worry that Obama might be good for American soft power, but not for its hard power.

Soft power is rarely sufficient, but it is often crucial to combine soft and hard power to have an effective smart power strategy.

As Iraq has shown, hard military power alone cannot provide a solution.

China s soft power versus Russia s hard power the two countries choices reflect their very different levels of self confidence.

That may be true in the domain of hard military power, but it is not true of soft power resources.

Military force is obviously a source of hard power, but the same resource can sometimes contribute to soft power behavior.

The Cold War was won by a mixture of hard and soft power.

Nevertheless, a smart strategy for Europe will require greater investments in hard power.

Hard power, which relies on coercion, grows out of military and economic might.

Last year, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, asked Secretary of State Colin Powell why the United States seemed to focus only on its hard power rather than its soft power. Secretary Powell replied that the US had used hard power to win World War II, but he continued What followed immediately after hard power?

Not only are their military, or hard power, resources growing there are signs that their soft power resources are increasing, too.

For him, this is what power is about taking hard decisions under unfavorable circumstances.

It is fragmented, peaceful, and normative in a world of hard power, but part of the world is not about military power.

What hard power the UN has must be begged and borrowed from the member states.

But it is a mistake to count too much on hard or soft power alone.

When the exercise of hard power undercuts soft power, it makes leadership more difficult as Bush found out after the invasion of Iraq.

To be smart today, Europe should invest more in its hard power resources, and America should pay more attention to its soft power.

When the exercise of hard power undercuts soft power, leadership becomes more difficult as President Bush found out after the invasion of Iraq.

On the other hand, soft power allows followers more choice and leeway than hard power does, because their views and choices matter more.

Only hard power can deal with them. But soft power will play a crucial role in attracting moderates and denying the extremists new recruits.

Sometimes likened to a secular Pope, the UN Secretary General can wield the soft power of persuasion but little hard economic or military power.

In other words, the Internet age requires new styles of leadership in which attractive soft power must supplement the traditional hard power of command.

Such a choice will be determined by hard power, particularly if China agrees to economic sanctions.

In addition, a successful leader needs the hard power skills of organizational and Machiavellian political capacity.