Soft Power
Mar 01, 2020
2 minutes
JENNIFER S. LI
oined by political scientist Joseph Nye in the late-1980s, the term “soft power” came to define an American foreign policy that emphasized cultural, institutional, and ideological persuasion over military might. In a 1990 article in , Nye wrote: “If a state can make its power seem legitimate in the eyes of others, it will encounter less resistance to its wishes. If its
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