Trump’s sharp cuts to humanitarian aid will ensure that the United States’ soft power crumbles, doing lasting damage to its ...

With the State Department’s new vows to halt visa interviews for all foreign students until it beefs up its social media ...

Since the end of World War II, the Fulbright Program has been one of America’s most prestigious tools of diplomacy — sending ...

The United States' soft power, which it has accumulated over decades, is rapidly eroding due to a combination of ...

He began his second term by brandishing American hard power, threatening Denmark over the control of Greenland, and suggesting he would take back the Panama Canal. He successfully wielded threats of ...

Christine Fair described this approach as a kind of 'how-to guide,' suggesting that India’s Ministry of External Affairs ...

Soft power, the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion, has long been a cornerstone of international influence. For decades, ...

Dr. Nye showed how foreign policy goals could be achieved "through attraction rather than coercion or payment." ...

While prior US presidents have violated aspects of the liberal order, Donald Trump is the first to reject the idea that soft power has any value in foreign policy. Among his first actions upon ...

I had an interesting time at the Africa Soft Power Summit in Nairobi, where I witnessed how deeply rooted Africa’s cultural ...

Power is the ability to get others to do what you want. That can be accomplished by coercion (“sticks”), payment (“carrots”) or attraction (“honey”). The first two methods are forms of ...