That was smart power.

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A smart power strategy does not ignore the tools of soft power.

Combining these dimensions effectively is called smart power.

The ability to combine them effectively is smart power.

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

Historically, rising states used smart power strategies to good avail.

But smart power is by no means limited to the US.

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

And the power outlet needs to be smart enough to do it.

Given China s rising economic and military power, this was a smart decision.

Public diplomacy is an important tool in the arsenal of smart power, but smart public diplomacy requires an understanding of credibility, self criticism, and the role of civil society in generating soft power.

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

In fact, some small states have proven highly adept at smart power strategies.

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

The information and communications revolution has spawned the idea of the smart city, which places the relevant technologies at the heart of systems that collect and respond to information smart power grids, smart transport networks (potentially including self driving vehicles), and smart buildings and zoning.

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

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.

We must use what has been called smart power, the full range of tools at our disposal.

Currently, however, Obama s smart power strategy is facing a stiff challenge from events in the Middle East.

If America is to win that war, its leaders are going to have to do better at combining soft and hard power into smart power.

We are going to build smart cars, but we also need to build smart roads, smart parking, smart public transportation systems and more.

But unless you learn how to mix hard power with soft power into strategies that I call smart power, you're not going to deal with the new kinds of problems that we're facing.

Smart power is an important strategy for success in world politics, but no one said that it would be easy.

This important dimension of a smart power strategy for the twenty first century is not captured by the concept of containment.

Ladies and gentlemen, with a combination of smart people, smart technology and smart investments, polio can now be eradicated anywhere.

But, as the United States discovered in Iraq, hearts and minds also matter, and smart warriors need the soft power of attraction as well as the hard power of coercion.

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In an information age, smart policy combines hard and soft power. Given what the US is, the Obama administration cannot afford to neglect the soft power narrative of democracy, liberty, and openness.

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And if we're going to deal with these two great power shifts that I've described, the power shift represented by transition among states, the power shift represented by diffusion of power away from all states, we're going to have to develop a new narrative of power in which we combine hard and soft power into strategies of smart power.

They must also better understand the nature of the contextual intelligence they will need to educate their hunches and sustain strategies of smart power.

The ability to combine hard and soft power is smart power. When the Soviet Union invaded Hungary and Czechoslovakia during the Cold War, it undercut the soft power that it had enjoyed in Europe in the aftermath of World War II.

Sami was really smart.