The Internet undercut the business model of many daily newspapers.

At times, the US has effectively if unintentionally undercut Iran s position.

But the misuse of military resources can also undercut soft power.

And its soft power is undercut by ethnocentric attitudes and policies.

Indeed, six months into his presidency, he has already undercut expectations.

China s actions shocked many Japanese and undercut its soft power in Japan.

On the other hand, misuse of military resources can undercut soft power.

The absence of an effective soft power component undercut the strategic response to terrorism.

The appeal to religious based opposition is an attempt to undercut the traditional clan based system.

The speech drew the most attention for calling on Israel to return to its 1967 borders, but the effect was undercut when Israel flatly rejected the US position.

But Soviet soft power was undercut by the exposure of Stalin s crimes in 1956, and by the repression in Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, and Poland in 1981.

Willingness to hold the dollar may be undercut by concern with America s twin fiscal and external deficits.

If it degenerates into propaganda, public diplomacy not only fails to convince, but can undercut soft power.

No country was immune from transnational crime, which undercut any prospects for stable and economically viable societies and also jeopardized peace and security, human rights and the rule of law.

Fourthly, the creation of six new permanent seats would also seriously undercut the effectiveness of the Security Council.

But this soft power was undercut by the inefficiency of the occupation, the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and the policy initiated by Rumsfeld of detainment without hearings at Guantánamo.

By not keeping its promises to allow peaceful demonstrations and free Internet access, China undercut its soft power gains.

But inadequate understanding of the Iraqi and regional context, together with poor planning and management, undercut Bush s transformational objectives.

Another development is the increasing tendency of military generals to speak out of turn on strategic issues and undercut diplomatic strategy.

Those inept comments fatally undercut the government s summoning of the Chinese ambassador to demand a return to the status quo ante.

At this stage, it is too early to determine whether Obama s policies will reinforce or undercut the effects of his words.

Indeed, too much government control, or even the appearance of it, can undercut the credibility that such networks are designed to engender.

The spread of information means that power will be more widely distributed, and informal networks will undercut the monopoly of traditional bureaucracy.

A long overdue diplomatic offensive needs to be launched to undercut Russian arguments as well as remind the world of what happened in Kosovo.

Finally, the belief that democracy and economic reform will undercut terrorism is based on a series of assumptions that may or may not prove accurate.

Already, Chinese officials ham handed response to the award has undercut their cherished and lavishly financed mission to project China s soft power around the globe.

Instead, by weakening safety standards, bailing out foreign investors, and financing current account deficits, the ECB has undercut and replaced the private European interbank market.

From this perspective, China s currency policies not only undercut the competitiveness of African and other poor regions industries they also undermine those regions fundamental growth engines.

The absence of a European grand strategy, together with the way Europeans undercut each other, leaves these issues unresolved, and in some cases exacerbates the problems.

Rouhani can undercut hardliners who would seek to block any ultimate deal only if the Iranian population both experiences economic relief and attributes it to his administration.

But China s government did not achieve all its Olympic objectives. By not keeping its promises to allow peaceful demonstrations and free Internet access, China undercut its soft power gains.

Indeed, occupying a divided nation is messy, and it is bound to produce episodes like Abu Ghraib and Haditha, which undercut America s attractiveness not just in Iraq, but around the world.

But they cannot fail to notice that the processes they support undercut their own position by rendering the wealth gap more obvious and the fairness of the actual global distribution more questionable.

But, as part of its seemingly endless effort to get into the European Union an aspiration that seems all but doomed at present Turkey implemented reforms that undercut the military s political role.

In fact, 2010 will be remembered as the year that Chinese leaders undercut their country s own interests by kindling fears of an expansionist China, thereby facilitating America s return to center stage in Asia.

The Bush administration provided three major rationales for going to war in Iraq. Only one remains at all credible the need to transform the Middle East through democratization and thereby undercut support for terrorists.

So President George W. Bush could quietly tell Abe that we welcome good relations between Japan and China, and that prime ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine undercut Japan s own interests in East Asia.

In short, specific terrorist threats should be fought through narrowly targeted counter terrorist operations, while moderates should undercut extremism through the politics of compromise rather than the false and dangerous delusions of military victory.

The last decade of war and lawlessness has facilitated the Taliban s proliferation across Pakistan and Afghanistan, leading the Taliban to consider itself an indefatigable force a belief that could lead its leaders to undercut any progress toward stability.

Although some persons directly involved in the illicit treatment of these detainees have been prosecuted as required by the Geneva Conventions, their actions have undercut years of efforts to establish effective international safeguards on the treatment of wartime detainees.

One of the most tragic aspects of the whole story, just now emerging, is the failure of UN officials on the ground to publicize at the time, when it really mattered, credible information that would have undercut the government s narrative.

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.

One of the earliest forms of cooperation between sovereign States in law enforcement involved efforts to control piracy on the high seas, but those measures were often undercut in some countries by the practice of chartering freelance privateers to harass their rivals.3.

The same is true of cosmopolitanism versus insularity. We may admire leaders who make efforts to increase their followers sense of moral duties beyond borders but it does little good to hold leaders to an impossible standard that would undercut their capacity to remain leaders.

On the other hand, misuse of military resources can undercut soft power. The Soviet Union had a great deal of soft power in the years after World War II, but destroyed it by the way the Kremlin used its hard power against Hungary and Czechoslovakia.